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1. The man that filled these garments looked to be strangely consumptive yet solid, as though he were a shadow made of lead
2. And for the time being, the consumptive pattern of population growth was held in check, not by an all-powerful god or insightful planning, but by tiny organisms of archaic origin
3. can corporatenism be a faithful doctor to the Earth, when it feeds itself and its investors from a profit harvested from an Earth seeded dollar green, rather than care for a patient diseased with our consumptive greed? When medicine is for profit there is no care of patient, no care for Earth
4. Their consumptive cancer of want is communicable
5. screamed for its mother, the hacking cough of a consumptive
6. The door on to the stairs was open to relieve them a little from the clouds of tobacco smoke which floated in from the other rooms and brought on long terrible fits of coughing in the poor, consumptive woman
7. The wail of the poor, consumptive, helpless woman seemed to produce a great effect on her audience
8. The agonised, wasted, consumptive face, the parched blood-stained lips, the hoarse voice, the tears unrestrained as a child's, the trustful, childish and yet despairing prayer for help were so piteous that everyone seemed to feel for her
9. Her wasted consumptive face looked more suffering than ever, and indeed out of doors in the sunshine a consumptive always looks worse than at home
10. Razumihin somehow discovered and proved that while Raskolnikov was at the university he had helped a poor consumptive fellow student and had spent his last penny on supporting him for six months, and when this student died, leaving a decrepit old father whom he had maintained almost from his thirteenth year, Raskolnikov had got the old man into a hospital and paid for his funeral when he died
11. The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw, The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wrong'd,
12. The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd
13. consumptive texture gave him more the air of an invalid that was
14. Every mortal day a fresh batch: middleaged men, old women, children, women dead in childbirth, men with beards, baldheaded businessmen, consumptive girls with little sparrows' breasts
15. Suppose he was consumptive
16. Some Experiments must be tried! Great caution was necessary in dealing with such difficult problems! We must go slow, and if in the meantime a few thousand children die of starvation, or become `rickety' or consumptive through lack of proper nutrition it is, of course, very regrettable, but after all they are only working-class children, so it doesn't matter a great deal
17. 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
18. Mean while by the glimpse I stole of him, I could easily discover a person far from promising any such doughty performances as the storming of maidenheads generally requires, and whose flimsy consumptive texture gave him more the air of an invalid that was pressed, than of a volunteer, on such hot service
19. He looked into his sickly, consumptive face, and he was more and more sorry for him, and he could not force himself to listen to what
20. He had expected to find him in the same state of selfdeception which he had heard was so frequent with the consumptive, and which had struck him so much during his brother’s visit in the autumn
21. Mr Clare, who had volunteered to help; then Tess, Marian, Izz Huett, and Retty; then Bill Lewell, Jonathan, and the married dairywomen— Beck Knibbs, with her wooly black hair and rolling eyes; and flaxen Frances, consumptive from the winter damps of the water-meads—who lived in their respective cottages
22. The agonised, wasted, consumptive face, the parched blood‐ stained lips, the hoarse voice, the tears unrestrained as a child's, the trustful, childish and yet despairing prayer for help were so piteous that everyone seemed to feel for her
23. “Had I but curb’d my Tongue and Pen, I might have rose like other Men,” said he, the Couplet coming as readily to his Lips as a Cough to the Lips of a Consumptive
24. The family were not consumptive, and she was more inclined to hope than fear for her cousin, except when she thought of Miss Crawford; but Miss Crawford gave her the idea of being the child of good luck, and to her selfishness and vanity it would be good luck to have Edmund the only son
25. The agonised, wasted, consumptive face, the parched blood-stained lips, the hoarse voice, the tears unrestrained as a child’s, the trustful, childish and yet despairing prayer for help were so piteous that everyone seemed to feel for her
26. consumptive face looked more suffering than ever, and indeed out of doors in the sunshine a consumptive always looks worse than at home
27. He was a titular counsellor, a man about forty, much disfigured by small-pox, very poor, and burdened with a consumptive wife and an invalid child
28. He looked into his sickly, consumptive face, and he was more and more sorry for him, and he could not force himself to listen to what his brother was telling him about the association
29. She recalled the efforts she had made at first to overcome the repugnance she felt for him, as for all consumptive people, and the pains it had cost her to think of things to say to him
30. It, too, was a photograph, a great deal smaller, in a thin oval wooden frame— it was the face of a young girl, thin and consumptive, and at the same time very good-looking ; dreamy and yet strangely lacking in thought
31. Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base
32. Ippolit Kirillovitch, the prosecutor (he was really the deputy prosecutor, but we always called him the prosecutor), was rather a peculiar man, of about five and thirty, inclined to be consumptive, and married to a fat and childless woman
33. All this had little to do with the case in hand, to say nothing of the fact of its being somewhat vague, but the sickly and consumptive man was overcome by the desire to express himself once in his life
34. The pipes and the tobacco pouches—for all the patients smoked, even the consumptive ones—could be concealed beneath the mattress
35. He got me a tin vessel, in which he made the water boil; and, in a word, he showed such extraordinary zeal, that it drew down upon him bitter laughter from one of the patients, a consumptive man, whose bed was just opposite mine, Usteantseff by name
36. I quite understood that the consumptive patient hated me much more than Tchekounoff
37. Usteantseff was consumptive, and, therefore, irascible
38. He was consumptive, and was dying
39. I do not think any one, even the doctors, would have thought of demanding the removal of the irons from convicts who were seriously ill, not even from the consumptive ones
40. For the convicts who were seriously ill, for the consumptive ones whose arms and legs dry up of themselves, this last straw is insupportable
41. Even if the medical authorities claimed alleviation for the consumptive patients alone, it would be an immense benefit, I assure you
42. The consumptive prisoners are exempted from corporal punishment by the tribunal
43. No one believes—it is impossible to believe—that a consumptive man will run away
44. When I spoke above of the consumptive patients, I was only reproducing involuntarily the sensations and ideas which occurred to me on the occasion of this death
45. Then there's Oustiantsef coughing, that cough of the hopelessly-gone consumptive, and then he would groan feebly, and stammer, "My God, I've sinned, I've sinned!"
46. The first of these, B—ski, was a man of infirm health, of consumptive tendency, irascible, and of a weak, nervous system; but a good and generous man
47. Marie was her daughter, a girl of twenty, weak and thin and consumptive; but still she did heavy work at the houses around, day by day
48. “Do you say he is consumptive?”
49. All this, together with his consumptive appearance, and the frenzied expression of his blazing eyes, naturally attracted the attention of everyone present
50. Do not laugh at the fool! Forget him! Forget him forever! I beseech you, do not be so cruel as to remember! Do you know that if I were not consumptive, I would kill myself?”
