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Across the street, the engine of the Buick caught, chugged consumptively, then roared fully to life.

But put a sensitive, suffering young girl into the bed, a girl consumptively beautiful with a blue-white skin turning yellow in the blue shadows - and her hands!

Transfers of rights require that there will be no adverse effect on other senior or junior rights holders, the result of which is that only the amount of water used consumptively in the past can be transferred.

"If she appeared on screen it was to cough consumptively, gobble spoonfuls of syrup from bottles perched so precariously on bedside tables that they overturned and crashed to the floor when there was no money to buy another," he wrote.

Inside the fortress-church celebrity defenders include Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jim Bowie (Jason Patric, coughing consumptively into his handkerchief); on the outside is Dennis Quaid's Sam Houston, desperately trying to assemble a coalition of the willing from bands of ragtag Texans.