Now Rabbi Yoffie says wars "sicken" him, even the wars he supports. From Wordnik.com. [Shalom, Shabbat, & Shibboleth] Reference
I sicken at this complication of folly and falsity. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
The elephants began to sicken; two fine animals died. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
Softly the poison is shed, slowly to sicken the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
And Seius, whose eight hundred slaves sicken in Ilva's mines. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Then she did not pine away, nor sicken with despair, being of. From Wordnik.com. [My Little Lady] Reference
'The time shall come, and ere long, when it shall sicken and die. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Swallow me, if it does not sicken thee, for I am muddier than thou!. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Well, I sicken of England and of the town and the wits and all else. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
When wild geese homeward fly and crickets sicken, do you think of me?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The northern cattle not being used to the disease soon sicken and die. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
Hastings would sicken a butcher; while in another vein such a phrase as. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Shipton -- once the strongest of the party -- seemed to sicken and fade. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
The floor was filthy, and the scent was sufficient to sicken well people. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
That trace of effluvia which in force could sicken a Terran, was his guide. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
To sicken without any stipulated reward was what I could not consent to do, so. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
"Why, man, you sicken me!" he cried, and he slashed at me with his sword as if. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
You must give your bird tepid water, otherwise it will get chilled, and sicken. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Mother Shipton -- once the strongest of the party -- seemed to sicken and fade. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
If they rushed the incoming freshies just to spite us, they would soon sicken of their project. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
If he spent many more months like this, he would sicken and die like a wild bird kept in a cage. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
"I feared greatly to have the tomb opened lest the stench of corruption should sicken the mourners.". From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
They say those soldiers who sicken and tremble when going into the fight often make the bravest heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
We are but too familiar with the fact that nations and races sicken and die: many examples could be given. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
"Because there must be some infection in the grass there to have made so many of the cattle sicken and die.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
The sights which I saw, the sounds which I heard from hour to hour, were enough to sicken me of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
To get rid of mice use tartar emetic mingled with any favorite food; they will eat, sicken and take their leave. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
So I ast the doctor ef it would likely kill the cat, an 'he said he reckoned not, though it might sicken her a little. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Invader and victim lie in the same grave, burn in the same heap; they sicken while they work, and the pestilence spreads. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
For some time before the change takes place, the insect appears to 'sicken,' taking no food and wearing a very mournful air. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Too great an amount of moisture renders the land cold; air cannot obtain access to the soil-particles, and the plants sicken and die. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Your children will all sicken and die, your cattle all become covered with disease, and you will know no comfort nor happiness henceforth. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
He goes on to give the details of this inequality and wretchedness, in terms calculated to sicken and appal one to whom the picture is new. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
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