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Sentences ending with consumption

Jack was doomed to consumption. [5]
In February, 1832, the wife of his youth, who had been for some time in failing health, died of consumption. [6]
Nothing was thought of it at first; but she grew rapidly worse, and fell into a consumption. [4]
He had died of consumption. [11]
This is the malady which the ancients did call tubes, or the wasting disease, and some do name the consumption. [3]
While lying in jail, his health began to fail, and he was threatened with consumption. [5]
In May, 1620, is a record that the company had to pay for physic and cordials for one of them who had been living as a servant in Cheapside, and was very weak of a consumption. [4]
Nevertheless it was intended for an eye that would be swift to see it; and it was meant to move a kind heart to try to effect the liberation of a poor reformed and purified fellow lying in the fell grip of consumption. [5]
But no matter, his household got up and cooked a quick supper for us, and we brewed a hot punch for ourselves, to keep off consumption. [5]
You wouldn't have guessed she had consumption. [11]

Short sentences using consumption

His disease was consumption. [5]

More example sentences with the word consumption in them

She was examined with the stethoscope, and the dreadful fact was announced that her lungs were affected, and that tubercular consumption had already made considerable progress. [14]
Thus, in the wards of Louis, at the Hospital of La Pitie, a vast number of patients in the last stages of consumption were constantly entering, to swell the mortality of that hospital. [3]
Indirect taxation must therefore be concentrated on those luxuries of which it is desirable that the consumption be discouraged. [9]
I suppose that the sun, going through a man, as it will on such a day, takes out of him rheumatism, consumption, and every other disease, except sudden death--from sun-stroke. [4]
Typhus fever decimated the school periodically; and consumption and scrofula, in every variety of form bad air and water, bad and insufficient diet can generate, preyed on the ill-fated pupils. [14]
He has been sick and threatened with consumption, but I have not inquired after him lately. [5]
It was very seldom that a man or woman bought the cordials for ordinary consumption, and when that was done, it would almost make a parish talk! [11]
But the consumption of good things affords them pleasure too. [10]
His brother, perishing of consumption, hunger, thirst, blazing heat, drowning rains, loss of sleep, lack of exercise, was persistently faithful and circumstantial with his diary from the first day to the last--an instance of noteworthy fidelity and resolution. [5]
Milk-leg is cured; nervous prostration is cured; consumption is cured; and St. Vitus's dance made a pastime. [5]
Milk-leg is cured; nervous prostration is cured; consumption is cured; and St. Vitus's dance is made a pastime. [5]
I tried it myself for half an hour, awhile ago, up-stairs here, while the inquiry into Flint Buckner's character and ways was being conducted in this room, and I arrived in that way at the rate of a candle's consumption when sheltered from the wind. [5]
I would trade mine for the smallpox and seven kinds of consumption, and be glad of the chance. [5]
He was named Jim, and there wasn't anything the matter with his mother --no consumption, nor anything of that kind. [5]
The victims of it were to be pitied and compassionated, just as are the heirs of consumption and other hereditary diseases. [7]
After all, it is probably pretty much like other inland New England towns in point of "salubrity,"--that is, gives people their choice of dysentery or fever every autumn, with a season-ticket for consumption, good all the year round. [6]
He was a frail creature, and three years later, in London, died of consumption. [5]
Generally, however, they fade and waste away under various pretexts,--calling it dyspepsia, consumption, and so on, to put a decent appearance upon the case and keep up the credit of the family and the institution where they have passed through the successive stages of inanition. [6]
Nevertheless, from the facts above alluded to, and from some connection apparently existing between complexion and a tendency to consumption, the conjecture seemed to me not improbable. [1]
No other people existing, or that ever did exist, could command such a variety of edible products for daily consumption as the mass of the American people habitually use today. [4]
Charles Brockden Brown died, the victim of a lingering consumption, in 1810, at the age of thirty-nine. [4]
We broke a crank-shaft between there and Port Phillip, Melbourne; a fire in the hold occurred at Adelaide; and at Albany we buried a passenger who had died of consumption one day out from King George's Sound. [11]
It peddles rheumatism, and plants consumption. [4]
You must make a reduction in these things; you must cut down your consumption of them considerably for some days. [5]
First you'll marry a combination of calico and consumption that's as thin as a rail, and next you'll get a creature that's nothing more than the dropsy in disguise, and then you've got to eke out that bridal dress with an old balloon. [5]

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