Coming home to England to die of consumption; so our surgeon told me.

Tanners and butchers are seldom known to die of consumption.

Thousands annually die of consumption springing out of this malady.

Four years later, Fanny Osgood did indeed die of consumption.

Didn't her mother, and her uncle, and her sister's oldest child die of consumption?

Grinders of cutlery die of consumption; weavers are stunted in their growth; smiths become blear-eyed.

The women are frail and many die of consumption.

Public singers are seldom known to die of consumption.

There is a lad who soon must die of consumption, whom I now daily examine.

Hundreds die of consumption, who might otherwise have lived.

She need never die of consumption at all, if she could breathe only inland air.

Rickety children, if not both carefully watched and managed, frequently, when they become youths, die of consumption.

Your mother did not die of consumption?

If you have a space between your teeth, it is a sign that you will die of consumption.

Once at Delphi, the god, whom I was consulting, foretold, that if an accused man escaped me, I should die of consumption.

Some die of consumption, others become mystics, some marry widowed squadron-commanders, some still try to stand firm, but are obviously losing heart.