"Phthisicky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a Squire, with your cane, your lean-limbed hound, your stocking-leg of specie, and your snuffbox. You will be the happy and respected husband of some tidy old lady in black, and spectacles,—a little phthisicky, like Frank's grandmother,—and an accomplished cook of ...
— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell
... phthisicky, eaves-dropping, musty, moving forms of mortification, both in public and private, curse those dainty books, and like toads spit their ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais |
