They had a parting that Lemuel's mother would have called sickish without question; but it all seemed heavenly sweet and right. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister's Charge] Reference
I'm still feeling sickish but it's moved up to my ears. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The latter is overwrought and full of sickish sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
There was a sickish-sweet smell of barbecuing meat on the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
Then he became aware of a curious, sweet, sickish odor in the booth. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference
Just thinking about food made a warm, sickish taste rise in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
And then he was suddenly aware of a sickish, heavy odor in the chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
American, but it succeeds, to admiration, fullsome and sickish as it is, in. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 29, 12 March - 31 July 1779] Reference
I have a sickish sense of humor but I think this is time to plan my happy cake. From Wordnik.com. [Et Tu, O-Town?] Reference
Suddenly he became aware of a peculiar odor in the air -- a sweet, sickish odor. From Wordnik.com. [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference
In fact, when he said that, I felt a kind of a sickish feeling inside of me, like maybe I. From Wordnik.com. [Shenanigans at Sugar Creek] Reference
Chemical fumes from the water scented the air, but not heavy enough to cover the other sickish effuvium. From Wordnik.com. [Star Flight]
Chemical fumes from the water scented the air, but not heavy enough to cover the other sickish effluvium. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Ours]
Across the room, the window was no longer black, but a sickish gray, surrounded by a frame of inky shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
There was genuine love between them, too, not of the effusive, sickish sort, but that love that enobles and glorifies. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
He parted his lips to continue his sharp inquiry, when he realized that his body was experiencing a sickish sensation. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Forever]
A sickish smell of heated oil pervaded the apartment, although everything was as clean and bright as hands could make it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
We being very dry and hungry immediately gathered some of this fruit, but finding it of a sweet, sickish taste, I eat but two. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
A sickish-sweet odor drifted down and across Kharl, a scent compounded of something burning, perhaps incense, with something stronger. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
Hearing it now she felt a sudden, sickish, sinking feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Poor Little Rich Girl] Reference
The thing slid down, leaving a sickish, sweetish taste behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle William: the man who was shif'less] Reference
Mitch got pale and began to be sickish and I was scared to death. From Wordnik.com. [Mitch Miller] Reference
"Them lilies is so sweet they are sickish," said the old grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Courtships] Reference
It had a sickish sweet odour, but that did not impress me at the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Bullet] Reference
Looking over his shoulder with sickish envy after the invincible Bulger. From Wordnik.com. [Bunker Bean] Reference
I feel a little sickish this morning has to be from the unbearable heat. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference
It only made you feel a little sickish on account of the smell of the wine. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
A click of teeth was followed by a sickish grunt as the man lurched over. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference
The skies were black and all the spring verdure was turned to a sickish gray-green. From Wordnik.com. [Vanguards of the Plains] Reference
And there's mighty little water, and what there is is sickish and a long ways apart. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountains] Reference
With the rush of air which followed the prowler's wake came a peculiar sickish odor. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice in the Fog] Reference
We get a Fig here occasionally but I do not fancy them much as they are rather sickish. From Wordnik.com. [G. W. Baker. Personal Correspondence.] Reference
But it made me feel a trifle faint an 'sickish notwithstanding this spit-in-the-eye business. From Wordnik.com. [Traffics and Discoveries] Reference
But the minute they turned round he smiled in a sickish way, and pretended to go to whistlin '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference
I have had a couple of rather sickish days since writing the above, but am all right again now. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss]
I felt a drowsy sensation stealing over me as the sickish sweet smell from the furnace increased. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Bullet] Reference
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