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"I want to hear everything that happened during the day devoted to the 'Use of Chocolate as an Entertainment Consumptive,' " Troi declared.

This development was followed by the building in 1898 of the Massachusetts Hospital for Consumptive and Tubercular Patients, a state prison camp and hospital, as well as the opening of a handful of small private TB sanitoria.

It could have been an excellent house for a consumptive to get better in.

A consumptive, he was usually too wiped out to paint and died at 24.

At the time consumptive patients were turned away from other hospitals as there was no known cure.

"Visitors get trapped in their own consumptive behavior," he said.

He died in December 1757 of a consumptive disorder.

He had loved one warm, clever boy who was frail in body, a consumptive type.

That left only the youngest, Henry, who was consumptive and unfit for military service.

He stepped into the shack and backed out, coughing like a consumptive.

Mary's consumptive mother was dying a slow death from overwork.

The total water used in an agricultural field includes runoff, drainage and consumptive use.

He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

"What it comes down to is, Is recreational purpose more important than consumptive use?"

It is as if the season hasn't really begun until the consumptive lady sings.

She coughed dryly like a consumptive and reached for my glass.

This was soon to amount to tens of thousands of consumptive children.

Total consumptive groundwater use for irrigation is estimated as 545 km/year.

They come with reasonable wealth and high consumptive power."

Large ladies play the part of consumptive girls!

Overall, only 18% of water resources in Mexico are withdrawn for consumptive use.

In Soviet times it was a sanatorium for consumptive miners and had only just been opened to the public.

Instead capital flows were squandered in consumption and consumptive investments.

In a fit of consumptive ecstasy, Grace forgives herself, as we would say today.

The building was opened on the ninth anniversary of her death in 1862 and was for the consumptive poor.

She had cast herself as a movie consumptive, and would not be dissuaded from the role by mere medical opinion.

"We're becoming highly consumptive, contrary to the islands' interests," he said.