phthisicky

So those hideous, snotty, phthisicky, eaves-dropping, musty, moving forms of mortification, both in public and private, curse those dainty books, and like toads spit their venom upon them.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

So those hideous, snotty, phthisicky, eaves-dropping, musty, moving forms of mortification, both in public and private, curse those dainty books, and like toads spit their venom upon them.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

She leant on an ivory-headed crutch-cane, and was followed by a fat phthisicky dog of the pug kind, who commonly reposed on a cushion, and enjoyed the privilege of snarling at the servants, and occasionally biting their heels, with impunity.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

And so we find these folks who cultivate a pellucid passivity, a phthisicky whisper, a supercilious smirk, and who win our smothered admiration and give us gooseflesh by imparting a taupe tinge of mystery to all their acts and words, thus proving to the assembled guests that they are the Quality and Wisdom will die with them.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885

I do hope you won't have that same kind of a phthisicky ketch in your breath that you had the other night after you overdone.

The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories Margaret Collier Graham 1880

"Sock it to 'em!" he tried to shout, but his phthisicky effort ended in a spell of coughing.

A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878

And here the good dame prolonged her phthisicky laugh for some moments, as she presented a box of Scotch snuff to her guest.

Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. 1852

A French abbe lays it down that Alexander was a poltroon; a phthisicky professor, holding at every word a bottle of sal volatile to his nose, lectures on strength.

The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

A French abbe lays it down that Alexander was a poltroon; a phthisicky professor, holding at every word a bottle of sal volatile to his nose, lectures on strength.

The Robbers Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

So those hideous, snotty, phthisicky, eaves-dropping, musty, moving forms of mortification, both in public and private, curse those dainty books, and like toads spit their venom upon them.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518