Sentence:  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 <WSD>tubercular</WSD> spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis.