Consumptive

I am glad he did not, for the Consumptive is a most entertaining beast of prey.

The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary James Runciman 1871

The Consumptive is a dissolute, drunken fellow, whose life is certainly not noble.

The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary James Runciman 1871

Challenges to one's integrity come in forms other than combat, though, as the first section of The Consumptive.

Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Challenges to one's integrity come in forms other than combat, though, as the first section of The Consumptive.

Great Regulars: The failure of the soldier Rus Bowden 2009

Hillkowitz served the Denver Jewish Consumptive Relief Society in the early 1900s.

Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America. 2009

Melville's novel does NOT start with "Call me Ishmael", but with the Etymology, "Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School" which is one of the most beautiful passages in all of Melville: "The Pale Usher - threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now."

Strong opinions Jenny Davidson 2006

"Consumptive use of wildlife is a highly doubtful way of conserving wildlife," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Consumptive patients are sent with this view to the Gironde, where the vapour from the wine vats is more stimulating and curative than in Burgundy.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

"Consumptive! he who is always as sallow as Debureau."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

Consumptive patients far gone have been known to be cured by long journeys, which have required them to be day and night in the open air.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various