| But happily that doesn't mean that it or the hotel is full of spluttering Keatsian consumptives nor that the spa is especially clinical in feel. |
| Bunch of disturbed consumptives, I thought. |
| The real number of consumptives whose disease originates in this manner can never be known. |
| All those lazy-bones among us suffering from listlessness and boredom will find a quick cure up here, where in bygone times consumptives came in search of treatment. |
| What was intended as a stay of a few weeks stretches into months, and then years, as Hans himself is diagnosed tubercular and dutifully takes his place among the cast of coughing consumptives. |
| So, as though it were a scratch match against a village team of hopeless duffers, fatties and general consumptives, he decides to give it a good old biff. |
