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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

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

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