consumptive behavior
consumptive lifestyle
tourism represents an insidious form of consumptive activity.
RESULTS &CONCLUSION: Levodopa/benserazide occupied the first place in the list of consumptive sum of money of antiparkinsonian during the period 2000~2003.
He won't limply surrender like some consumptive Romantic.
The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis.
A French actress was showing in a novel way how consumptive women die.
Even the consumptive came near them, and, coughing, looked on.
Henry Brandling, a sorrowful, rich Englishman, travels to Germany to commission a “mechanical marvel” so wondrous it will raise his consumptive son from his sickbed.
The consumptive with the child in her arms and the watch-woman, who did not cease knitting a stocking with her nimble fingers, approached Maslova.
At the expiration of the first month, Denise had become quite one of the family, like the other saleswoman, a silent, consumptive, little body.
" All right, " she said, and, taking the little hand of the boy into her own white hand, she returned to the consumptive's mother.
" She is consumptive, and the sort of life she leads isn't exactly the thing to cure her. She has taken to her bed; she is dying" .
Two very sad betting men were playing billiards, attended by a moist, consumptive marker; and for the moment Silas imagined that these were the only occupants of the apartment.
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