Sickened

Examples

• At any rate he sickened, and after opposing to the malady a taciturn resistance for a day or two, was obliged to keep his chamber. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet none of the defaced human forms which I distinguished, could be Raymond; so I turned my eyes away, while my heart sickened within me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• After a bout of hard drinking in Babylon a sudden fever came upon Alexander (323 B.C.), and he sickened and died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was very malignant, and the looks of her attendants prognosticated the worst event. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• One by one they sickened and died, until only one man was left, the writer of the letter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• How had I sickened over their anticipation! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It sickened her, for blows fell heavily and cruelly on the quiet of the night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Several sickened and died, and in the mean time neither Adrian nor any of our friends appeared. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But now I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• On the night of her return she sickened of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I were at the Committee, till I were sickened out wi' trying to make fools hear reason. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The ham sickened him, the bread seemed to turn to sand in his mouth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I sickened as I read. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And thus poor Charley sickened and grew worse, and fell into heavy danger of death, and lay severely ill for many a long round of day and night. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When Will had ceased to speak she had become an image of sickened misery: her lips were pale, and her eyes had a tearless dismay in them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I cried inwardly, as the night lingered and lingered--as my bleeding patient drooped, moaned, sickened: and neither day nor aid arrived. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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