Consumptives

The _Expectoration_ of consumptives which is thrown out by coughing with great exertion, is but scant in the beginning, as a rule phlegmy, glassy transparent and sticky. ❋ Max Birnbaum (1876)

Mary Mallon, who is physically healthy in every way, is being kept on a quarantine island just north of New York City, along with dozens of consumptives, recovering and otherwise. ❋ Julie Chibbaro (2011)

He coughed much, as though consumption gripped his lungs, while his eyes had that mad, fevered light common to consumptives in the last stage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Other highlights include the phrasing "alienation of his wife's affections" and "entered a sanitarium for consumptives:" ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even his ears showed a form particular to consumptives. ❋ EILEEN (2009)

While consumptives and hypochondriacs toddled to Cannes and Nice, those with money to burn (and sometimes with pockets to let) dashed to Monte Carlo and its world-famous casino where the ordinary gambling unit was a mille, worth about 40 pounds. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Since, as is often the case with consumptives, her mood remained quite radiant until the end, the solitude of this early summer was an excellent remedy for her slightly excitable amorous feelings. ❋ David McDuff (2009)

They are continuing to be massive consumptives of energy that produces an enormous amount of CO2. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I was at the spa at the Broadmoor Resort, which is in Colorado Springs, a town that has deep roots as spa town -- during the late 1800s, it became a magnet for consumptives, whose treatments included breathing the dry alpine air and bathing in the soda springs at Manitou. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Flagler declared the San Marco Hotel “one of the most comfortable and best kept hotels in the world and filled, too, not with consumptives, but with that class of society one meets at the great watering places of Europe.” ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

They went to hospital benefit balls those consumptives flocking south needed somewhere to die at the Villa Alexandria, where they ate ice cream, waltzed under palm trees, and marveled at the indoor plumbing—the only properly flushing commodes south of Charleston. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

Colorado is considered the finest in North America, and consumptives, asthmatics, dyspeptics, and sufferers from nervous diseases, are here in hundreds and thousands, either trying the ❋ Unknown (2007)

With an account of Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, and Aiken; a chapter for consumptives; various paperson fruit-culture; and a complete hand-book and Guide (First Edition) by Sidney Lanier ❋ Unknown (2006)

Had my father rolled her in ochre before heading off to Belle Vue to watch two white-faced consumptives chasing each other round the ring? ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

Though the climate is most favorable for consumptives, the habits of the people are so unwholesome that tuberculosis prevails, and there are two or three deaths a day from it in Seville. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Like all consumptives, he never — not even up to his last moment — altogether abandoned the hope of being able to enjoy a long life. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Characters in both [Angela's] [Ashes] and [Moulin Rouge] die of consumption. ❋ HayCat128 (2009)

[Wyatt Earp]: "Hey, Doc, whassamatter? You've been a-hackin up blood a while now." [Doc Holiday]: "Ah, it's nuthin. I got the consumption, [tha's] all." ❋ TheColera (2010)

that actress was destined to die of consumption ! Red said ' But she did LIVE , that sweet ol' HO'" As Tom Chapin Harry's Bro' sang " Consumption Junction..... What's yer Function....." WikiPedia [can't touch this] Consumption definition ! nor the [Nat'l] [Assoc]. of Naval Veterans , try to find that ! ❋ Crickety Dick (2007)

It’s Friday [lads], time to [enter] the [consumption vortex]. ❋ JarritoSuds (2020)

[god made] me to [get lost] in the [consumption vortex] ❋ Ryan Janka (2021)

Joe practices [collaborative consumption] on [BoxGiver] by exchanging [packaging] materials with his neighbors. ❋ AnacapaHall (2021)

Wow, it's the new $12,000 diamond iPod case! I must get it, even though I'm two [months behind] my four-bedroom home, about to lose my [Lexus SUV], and have already maxed out three of my credit cards! [Mass consumption]... ❋ Donjabroni (2010)

non-intellectual: "[I ate] my [girlfriends ass] last night" [intellectual]: "Is that so? Well at a late time period yesterday, I participated in some anal consumption with my female romantic partner." ❋ Wet_cardboard69 (2018)

Bob - you watching the game today? Bill - [no can do], the missus is going shopping so I will be living in [exile] at [the temple] of consumption. Bob - sorry to hear it... we will have fun without you. ❋ Jfburke619 (2013)

[Wise girl]: Do you know why she left you? [Bankrupt] loser: I think, it's due to the fact that I couldn't give her what she wanted anymore, because she completely [bankrupt] me with her [expensive taste]. Wise girl: Finally realize she used you? She's a consumption prostitute dude! ❋ Consumption Prostitute (2007)