scrofulously

"Clean, ma'am," says Jane, raising her black gloved hands to emphasise the affirmation, "she's _scrofulously_ clean!"

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

_Fatal_ results are due to scrofulously diseased bones, joints or glands, and it can not be denied that a large number of children succumb in this manner.

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

Rickety dwellings of undoubted fashion, but of a capacity to hold nothing comfortably except a dismal smell, looked like the last result of the great mansions 'breeding in-and-in; and, where their little supplementary bows and balconies were supported on thin iron columns, seemed to be scrofulously resting upon crutches.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

Rickety dwellings of undoubted fashion, but of a capacity to hold nothing comfortably except a dismal smell, looked like the last result of the great mansions’ breeding in – and – in; and, where their little supplementary bows and balconies were supported on thin iron columns, seemed to be scrofulously resting upon crutches.

Little Dorrit 2007