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Meanings of consumptive man in английском

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Usage of consumptive man in английском
1
There come to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an old consumptive man, and fair conditioned.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
2
The consumptive man was emboldened to demand "Elsa's Dream," but she had refused to sing for him.
Evelyn Innes
3
Stephens was the "little, slim pale-faced consumptive man" whose speech in Congress had won Lincoln's admiration years before.
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
4
Several times she nearly broke off the conversation with the consumptive man: her feet seemed to acquire a will of their own.
Evelyn Innes
5
The low-lying gardens were full of poisonous vapour, and the thin trees seemed like the ghosts of consumptive men.
Esther Waters
6
The delicate features were unnaturally thin and drawn, and there were blue shadows at the temples such as consumptive men often have.
Taquisara
7
Consumptive men, between paroxysms of coughing, tell you of the goals they scored when they were half-backs or forwards of extraordinary ability.
Idle Ideas in 1905
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