Tussi
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Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head; Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead; Tussis attacked him.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head:85 Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead: Tussis attacked him.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
So the periods of Tussis ferina, or violent cough with slow pulse, called nervous cough, recurs by solar periods.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head: Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead: Tussis attacked him.
From Dramatic Romances by Browning, Robert
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