Tussi

American

[too-see] / ˈtu si /

noun

Tutsi.

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Tussis

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 Myra Reynolds

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

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 Erasmus Darwin

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 Robert Browning

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