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Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022

Mulligan was struck by the "natural charm and grace" of the boy, whose entire family, including his bronchitic father, lived with another family in a damp garage without water and electricity.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2010

But Emily is faithful to Roger to the bittersweet end � as, with a faint smile and a last little bronchitic rale, he takes his departure for the family vault.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The more efficient the mask." said one spokesman, "the more difficult it is to breathe through, particularly in the case of bronchitic patients."

From Time Magazine Archive

But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.

From Round the Red Lamp by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir