weak lungs

"This western air does not do my weak lungs any good," he said.

The weak lungs have afflicted her daughters, too.

He was also healthier, though he suffered from weak lungs and constant fatigue.

It's 1860, when languishing figures of fiction usually expired from weak lungs, but this is Australia.

She had read somewhere that children with weak lungs could become ill from breathing stale air in enclosed spaces.

He did not enjoy good health for long as he had weak lungs and suffered from premature deafness.

Keyes always had weak lungs and never recovered from the damage caused in the flight.

Dr. Brumley made a name researching the weak lungs of premature babies.

He coughed, cursing his weak lungs.

Cora Conway's chest rose as she sucked air into her weak lungs, and her rheumy eyes opened.

Weak Lungs and How to Make them Strong (1863)

The strong words shouted from the weak lungs of an old man brought back terrifying memories of another old man I'd seen but once.

Casimer surprised them by his skill in music, for, though forbidden to sing on account of his weak lungs, he played as if inspired.

For years, I'd learned to tone it down at shows to accommodate my weak lungs by holding my jumps lower, for instance, and generally cutting corners.

--My weak lungs, combined with the exciting episodes of the voyage, have shaken my nervous system so much that the most trivial incident affects me.

She went through a rebellious streak, smoking cigarettes, two packs of Marlboros a night, even though she knew the smoke would harm her already weak lungs.

The latter's weak lungs had led him to exchange Maine for California, the removal being facilitated by the offer of a professorship in the State University.

He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned German.

She had been born in Austria but was sent to Holland by her family in the hope that the Dutch climate would help strengthen her weak lungs.

Kasai lived in Kamakura, Kanagawa for many years, due to the presence of many fellow writers, and because the sea air was considered healthier for his weak lungs.

Although many children in Bristol died of Whooping Cough at this time, only one orphan girl died, and she was known to have weak lungs and a tendency to consumption.

That same evening I dined at the home of my cousin, Hovey Stafford, who had come West some years before on account of weak lungs, and stayed because he liked it.

Sullivan also played the only child in the 2002 film Unfaithful and played the orphaned child Fuzzy Stone, who suffered from weak lungs in The Cider House Rules.

An orphan teen-ager with weak lungs, a gimpy leg and a twisted arm, Billy is the beloved cross borne by Eileen and Kate, elderly spinster sisters and shopkeepers.

In the first letter to Tacitus, his nephew suggested that his death was due to the reaction of his weak lungs to a cloud of poisonous, sulphurous gas that wafted over the group.