Sickening

Examples

• The aspect of piteous distress on his face, almost as imploring a merciful and kind judgment from his child, gave her a sudden sickening. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The concussion nearly capsized her, and with a sickening plunge she hurtled downward through the dark night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• She thought with sickening despondency, that that friend--the only one, the one who had felt such a regard for her--was fallen away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The first idea that presented itself to her was, that all this sickening alarm on Frederick's behalf was over; that the strain was past. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They try at other shops in the interior of London, with faint sickening hopes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It's all over, said he, with a groan of sickening remorse. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Oh, it's sickening,' replied the beadle. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The sight of the mangled and dying men which met my eye as I boarded the ship was sickening. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom, and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Added to this, the sickening sensation of disease gained upon me; no time was to be lost, if ever I would see her again. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And the Captain made her advances that filled her with sickening dismay, nor would she ever see him unless she had George by her side. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She flamed with anger and abasement, and the sickening need of having to conciliate where she longed to humble. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The sight to me was sickening. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was such a hurry; such a sickening alarm; such a near chance. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Such symptoms, when a disease of the kind is rife, are usually the signs of sickening. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The idea of riding all day long over such ghastly inquisitions of torture is sickening. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The place had that peculiar sickening, unwholesome smell, compounded of mingled damp, dirt and decay, which one often notices in close old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I must have lain long deprived of life; for when first, with a sickening feeling, I unclosed my eyes, the light of morning met them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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