He grimly paints the reality of the earlier time -- the bronchitic coughs and pneumonia and smallpox that will cut short these lives; the foul-tasting water and gray, nutritionally bankrupt diet; the unwanted pregnancies and drunken husbands and hopeless lives of women; the isolated, uncultured lives; and so on and so on. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The risk of chronic bronchitis and bronchitic symptoms at the population scale is elevated in outdoor workers in some populations, but is not elevated in regular recreational crosscountry skiers, and the risk of developing asthma is not significantly elevated by regular exercise or work in cold climates. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Well might the cat after having led this kind of life for better than two years look mere skin and bone when it made its appearance in our apartment, and have an eruptive malady, and also a bronchitic cough, for I remember it had both. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There was the heart murmur I knew about and some faint bronchitic sounds which I expected. ❋ Herriot, James (1995)
There was the heart murmur I knew about and some faint bronchitic sounds, which I expected. ❋ Herriot, James (1992)
_ "I have been bronchitic and asthmatic for twenty years, and have never known an alleviative so immediately efficacious as 'Anisette.'" ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
He received his visitor very pleasantly, expecting, as a matter of course, that he would begin with some new grievance, dyspeptic, neuralgic, bronchitic, or other. ❋ Various (N/A)
She danced like a Vernon Castle, knew almost as much about fencing as a Saviolo, shot like a George V., and rode like a cowboy, all of which qualifications she erased from her list on the termination of the freezing half-hour of her first interview with her first would-be employer, who, until the enumeration of the above sporting qualifications, had seemed desirous of taking her along with a bronchitic pug to winter in Bath. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
A bronchitic cough had taken her to Cairo just as a sooted-up lung, left behind by the pneumonia which had followed the hunting accident had taken Ben Kelham to Heliopolis, and for recuperation of body or mind there is nothing to equal an Egyptian winter, even in a tourist-ridden centre. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
Freddy Malins exploded, before he had well reached the climax of his story, in a kink of high-pitched bronchitic laughter and, setting down his untasted and overflowing glass, began to rub the knuckles of his left fist backwards and forwards into his left eye, repeating words of his last phrase as well as his fit of laughter would allow him. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
In the meantime, my wife (who has been laid up with bronchitic cold ever since we came home) and I have had as much London as we can stand, and are off to-morrow to Eastbourne again, but to more sheltered quarters. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)
The wife got a nasty bronchitic cold as soon as she came up. ❋ Leonard Huxley (1896)
"A nice time of night for you to be back!" barked the bronchitic voice hoarsened by years of shut windows. ❋ Unknown (1889)
'They promised me a ribbon for't,' she said, complainingly, in a hoarse, bronchitic voice, pointing to the animal she held, and to its lean neck adorned with a collar of plaited string, on which apparently she had just been busy, to judge from the odds and ends of string lying about. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
The little bronchitic boy sat on the fender, in front of the untidy fireless grate, shivering, his emaciated face like a yellowish white mask, his eyes fixed immovably on his father. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Marcella soon made out the poor little bronchitic boy, sitting coughing by the fire, and Mrs. Hurd busied with some washing. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
And his agent, who is seventy, and bronchitic, is the greatest fool I ever saw. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
A kettle was beside her with a long spout, which sent the steam far into the room, keeping the air of it moist and warm for the poor bronchitic old man who lay close-curtained from the draughts on the wooden bed in the corner. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
I am elderly, grey-bearded and, according to my clerk, Alfred, disgustingly fat; I wear spectacles and get more and more bronchitic as I grow older. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
