galloping consumption

Her disorder turned to a galloping Consumption and in a few days carried her off.

This time around, galloping consumption has left many authorities believing that the world may face a long period of high prices and tight supplies.

When she was 8 years old her oldest sister Henriette (1849-1867) died of "galloping consumption".

Gradually, the pain got worse and it turned into a "galloping consumption" or tuberculosis (Austen 530).

It might be the galloping consumption.

'Aah doubts but it's the galloping consumption,' his mother had confided tearfully.

"Don't tell me that you're suffering from galloping consumption or a weak heart or anything like that, because I simply don't believe it."

He was in the navy, a sub-lieutenant in a submarine, and he had what they used to call in novels galloping consumption.

"Galloping consumption, ma'am."

I'm nine years old and I have a pal, Mickey Spellacy, whose relations are dropping one by one of the galloping consumption.

"Ruby Gillis is dying of galloping consumption," said Mrs. Lynde bluntly.

Soon after, his mother became ill with measles, and in spite of the efforts of several doctors, Samuel's mother died when the measles turned into "galloping consumption."

Talk about galloping consumption' 'I begin to get the picture,' said Dr Pittman making a note that Wilt was a pathological liar with sado-masochistic tendencies.

On 6 July 1842, Helena Andreevna Hahn, Helena's mother and at that time a well-known writer, died at the age of 28 of galloping consumption.

One round of inhalation means that the character must make a T test (Immunity to Disease +10) or acquire galloping consumption (see Appendix 3, New Disease).

Arthur Frankau died at Clover Cottage, Eastbourne, on 21st November 1904 from galloping consumption apparently contracted on a business trip to Havana.

Eventually, she falls seriously ill, and Deberle diagnosis her with galloping consumption (the same disease her grandmother Ursule died of) and gives her three weeks to live.

'Curability of Attacks of Tubercular Peritonitis and Acute Phthisis (Galloping Consumption),' 1877. '

In Anne of the Island, the third book of the Anne of Green Gables series, Ruby Gillis, one of Anne's childhood friends, dies of "the galloping consumption."

One of our prayers is surely powerful because next summer Mickey himself is carried off by the galloping consumption and he doesn't get a day off from school and that will surely teach him a lesson.

This delicate little creature, in the trembling of her wasted fingers, in the livid hue of her lips, and in the slight hectic spot which tinged her otherwise leaden complexion, gave evident indications of a galloping consumption.

The priests tell us all the time that God's mercy is infinite but how can any priest give absolution to someone like me who delivers telegrams and winds up in a state of excitement on a green sofa with a girl dying of the galloping consumption.

I stand out in the open in the freezing weather and hope I'll catch pneumonia or the galloping consumption so that I'll go to the hospital with the nice clean sheets and the meals in the bed and books brought by the girl in the blue dress.

The bunk they told her was that the old man's uncle had had a goitre, or that the old man's grandfather had died of galloping consumption, or that we were going to move house inside four months, which last was dead easy, seeing as we moved on an average of six times a year."