Sentence examples for phthisic from inspiring English sources

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phthisic

noun

A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; phthisis.

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The poetry Eliot wrote between 1918 and 1922 is populated by oversexed female characters: Grishkin ("The sleek Brazilian jaguar / Does not in its arboreal gloom / Distil so rank a feline smell / As Grishkin in a drawing-room"); Princess Volupine (who "extends / A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand / To climb the waterstair.

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