1924, “Critical Inspection of a Myth,” w:Time (magazine)|Time, 24 November, 1924,http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,719490,00.html
As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation.
1929, (w), (w), Part One, Chapter 1,http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300721h.html
He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.
There had been, too, all the long weeks of Rosie’s tubercular dying to go through.
2012, (w), “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” (w) website,http://thespace.lrb.co.uk/
The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.
Relating to or reminiscent of the wheeze wheezing sounds associated with the breathing of tuberculosis patients.
1994, (w) and (w), Masters of Spacetime, Crossroad Press, 2015, Chapter 9,https://books.google.ca/books?id=17F6BwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
The engine heaved. (..) The thing sounded like a tubercular tugboat engine without a muffler.
2007, (w), The Colour of Blood, Chapter 1,http://www.declanhughesbooks.com/colour-blood1.php
Crows on the roof beat their wings and made their low tubercular moan.
2016, Brad Wheeler, “Old Dylan and Stones deliver at new Desert Trip music festival,” (w), 8 October, 2016,http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/dylan-jagger-deliver-at-new-desert-trip-music-festival/article32310484/
His voice? A raspy, nasal and welcoming instrument, with a tubercular kind of charisma.