Significados de consumptive man em inglês

There come to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an old consumptive man, and fair conditioned.

The consumptive man was emboldened to demand "Elsa's Dream," but she had refused to sing for him.

Stephens was the "little, slim pale-faced consumptive man" whose speech in Congress had won Lincoln's admiration years before.

Several times she nearly broke off the conversation with the consumptive man: her feet seemed to acquire a will of their own.

The low-lying gardens were full of poisonous vapour, and the thin trees seemed like the ghosts of consumptive men.

The delicate features were unnaturally thin and drawn, and there were blue shadows at the temples such as consumptive men often have.

Consumptive men, between paroxysms of coughing, tell you of the goals they scored when they were half-backs or forwards of extraordinary ability.