phthisic old use , auch: phthisical

Young men in particular, Nicole thought, have difficulty with women who are old and phthisic.

She is not phthisic and confined to a wheelchair.

Failure is tragic, but a phthisic face hanging over the cup of the future is worse.

As we watched, a phthisic finger of lightning crackled down from a clear sky to touch the lead left cylinder.

My hands are phthisic, Nicole thought.

As Nai and he walked out the door, Kepler stood beside Nicole's wheelchair, holding her phthisic hand.

For George Călinescu, Cerna's "euphoric thirst for life" recalled the work of Parnassian and Symbolist author Alexandru Macedonski, but was tempered by "the mellow anemia of the phthisic."

She is for-ever steering conversations around to the philosophy of William F. Buckley Jr., so she can show off by pronouncing "eschatology," or to tuberculosis so she can pronounce "phthisic," or to a boring subject like the agglomeration of units so she can pronounce "congeries."

And we shall be rid of phthisis and phthisic and pneumonia and pneumatics, and diphtheria and pterodactyl, and all those other insane words which no man addicted to the simple Christian life can try to spell and not lose some of the bloom of his piety in the demoralizing attempt.

Right after he had discovered the bacillus, Koch had tried in vain to create a vaccine against it, however the injection of the filtrate he had prepared, later called old tubercolin had the effect of revealing who was phthisic from who wasn't by causing in the latter-and not in the former-fever and light trembing.

Phthisic, Richard was saying.