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Their citadels are two farmhouses and their outworks�barns, farrowing sheds, chicken houses and consumptively coughing windmills.

From Time Magazine Archive

One was consumptively inclined, he told me, and being an old soldier, was receiving a small pension.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

She was naturally a pretty girl, but was growing rapidly haggard, and was badly made up, rouged in wrong places consumptively, powdered everywhere disastrously.

From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe