A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Examples for "consumptive"
Examples for "consumptive"
1Domini thought she looked consumptive, and was bitterly disappointed in her appearance.
2It seems Miss Wooler's school is in a consumptive state of health.
3Another lad, a consumptive was sentenced the same day for two years.
4He was waiting for his consumptive wife to die to marry me.
5The fifth was hardly more than a boy, long, thin, obviously consumptive.
1The way I feel right now, I'd suck on his tubercular handkerchief.
2But the tubercular French soldiers are the saddest looking men in Europe.
3I'm tubercular with confidence, convinced we're going to succeed in our mission.
4The separation of the tubercular from the healthy cows must be complete.
5On examination, both organs were found to be full of tubercular bacilli.
1The undertaker down-town is a lunger, and a nervous wreck to boot.
2How do you feel? He spits on Gorg, a luscious thick lunger.
3There's nothing the matter with her, except that she's a lunger's wife.
4There was, of course, the Eugenie Schumann-Marie Fil-lunger connection.
5If he was a "lunger" he wanted to die as soon as possible.
6I saw at once that you weren't a 'lunger.'
7I have a six-cylinder brain and he has a one-lunger, but they operate on like principles.
8Whenever you strike a suspicious character out here he's either a 'one-lunger' or a 'remittance man.'
9He hawked, rolled down his window, and spat an extremely large yellow-green lunger into the rainy air.
10New lunger is here, young, good-looking.
11Well, she's our latest social sensation... sister of some rich lunger that recently hit town; therefore very important.
12You know what a lunger is?
13We could get a professor in here cheap-a lunger, maybe-toclassify 'em, and then we'd send out our own salesman.
15Eddie tried to wipe the lunger off with his good arm, but even that little movement made the pain flare again.
16It's a lunger bound for the lakes, and some one gave him a twist as to the track an' we caught 'im.