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Meanings of consumptive in inglés
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tísic Tending to consume or use often wastefully.
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Usage of consumptive in inglés
1
Domini thought she looked consumptive, and was bitterly disappointed in her appearance.
2
It seems Miss Wooler's school is in a consumptive state of health.
3
Another lad, a consumptive was sentenced the same day for two years.
4
He was waiting for his consumptive wife to die to marry me.
5
The fifth was hardly more than a boy, long, thin, obviously consumptive.
6
Two remain vague- afattish ,holiday-makingbanker and a consumptive from Barre, Vermont.
7
That is all right Now blow; you are not consumptive, are you?
8
Maria was growing delicate, and seemed to inherit her father's consumptive tendencies.
9
Not consumptive Annabel Lee but Annie Oakley, Queen of the Dead Midwest.
10
Mr. Corwin was consumptive; so was Rufe; so was Mr. Jennings, the engineer.
11
Here is a hospital-allmanner of sick; the paralytic, the fever-stricken, the consumptive.
12
He attributed both ailments to a lack of food and his consumptive history.
13
Then he broke into the awful cough of the consumptive Rateau.
14
Before the door stood a small consumptive-looking man in a light check suit.
15
A French actress was showing in a novel way how consumptive women die.
16
He found one with an imbecile son and the other with consumptive daughters.
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