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This is not a romantic, Dickensian look at a saintly consumptive young woman.
She has the cachectic facies of a painting of a Victorian consumptive, Munch's Sick Child, perhaps.
Woolsey, also consumptive, either miscarried or had to terminate each pregnancy for health reasons.
His face, almost in profile, shows a high coloring that is close to feverish and no doubt reflects his consumptive state.
It can also be used as an auxiliary treatment for consumptive disease, asthma and diabetes.
And if climate scientists are right, the cause of our problems is manic, consumptive, fossil-fuel driven human activity.
However, each falls short of the type of provision necessary to allow the consumptive activity contemplated by the proposal.
His Tony is a sad-faced, world-weary, consumptive character with little to live for or care about seemingly other than his godson.
In clinical, economic terms, with children comes the arrival of non-productive yet highly consumptive members of the household.
He puts his hand to his brow, in the manner of a tragic consumptive.
A dark gray complexion indicates prolonged stagnation of blood such as a consumptive disease with blood deficiency accompanied by menoplania or amenia.
But the trait of a demand-driven market is that it will find major consumptive business on price breaks.
They argue for the privatization of wildlife and promote its commercial consumptive use and free trade, endangered species included.
Even myself, the bionic plane jumping man, was not immune, and after a week am still coughing so badly that the domestic African Grey parrot now sounds definitely consumptive.
Watching it in public, on the other hand, exposes these films as just another method of molding of our consumptive urges.
As noted by the authors, there have been 3 reports of adults with consumptive hypothyroidism from D3-expressing fibroblastic or vascular tumors.
With such large withdrawal rates, Canadian manufacturing can have a significant impact on water availability, particularly with competing instream and other consumptive uses.
Roughly 1.4 million hectares of forested land located on Indian reserves is suitable for sustainable consumptive resource use, such as timber, hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering herbs and medicinal plants.
The Canadian Wheat Board says new wheat crops are still months away from being harvested and ongoing consumptive demand will continue to lighten old-crop wheat supplies.
Biological filtration can also be an effective treatment of surface and ground water for other water-use applications, such as consumptive uses by livestock, industrial and irrigation water uses.
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Besides she had got it into her head that Leonora, who was as sound as a roach, was consumptive.
Those who can relish sour buttermilk, will find it still more light, and it is reckoned very beneficial in consumptive cases.
Farther on, too, there was a girl so thin and pale that she must surely be a consumptive.
The consumptive girl did not menstruate because she had not the vitality to do so.
The sickness or soundness of a consumptive may be a clear and calculable matter.
Why should a consumptive hold a cloth before his face when coughing?
That beautiful young man looks like a consumptive in his last stage.
If there is a scrofulous or consumptive taint in the blood, beware!
The push for heightened protection of consumptive water use rights also has inspired countermovements.
His mother was consumptive, and they're afraid he takes after her.
The village is built on some consumptive little water-course, and about it is a little fresh-looking vegetation.
I think we care too highly for the cancerous and the consumptive.
You assure me at all events that this young person is not consumptive?
A deaf person had heard, a mute had spoken, a consumptive had revived!
Among his other disabilities, he was a consumptive, and I knew that if he attempted to bail, it might bring on a hemorrhage.
What I see is the Cafe Venus, on the plaza of Santiago, where one hot night I drank and talked with a dying consumptive.
This unwariness is not the result, as many believe, of naivete, nor merely unfamiliarity with the consumptive power of capitalism.
Visitors said they had never noticed before how strong the air was, and weak-chested and consumptive people used to throng there for years afterwards.
He had himself a daughter about her age, but whose life was one continued source of anxiety and fear to him from her mother having been consumptive.
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