sickly
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sickly englanniksi
Frequently ill or in poor health.
(ux)
1759, (w), letter dated 16(nbs)March, 1759, in (w), ''(w),'' London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume(nbs)1, p.(nbs)190,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839390.0001.001
- ... the boy is a sickly lad, of a delicate frame, and particularly subject to a malady in his throat, which renders him very unfit for his Majesty’s service.
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
{{quote-book|en|year=1982|author=Anne Tyler|title=Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine|year_published=2008|chapter=1|page=4|url=https://archive.org/details/dinnerathomesick00tyle_0/page/n15
Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
(RQ:KJV)
1782, (w), letter dated 20(nbs)March, 1782, in (w), ''(w),'' London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume(nbs)2, p.(nbs)419,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839390.0001.002
- The season was dreary, I was sickly, and found the friends sickly whom I went to see.
1850, (w), letter dated 29(nbs)April, 1850, in (w), ''(w),'' London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Chapter(nbs)6, p.(nbs)157,https://archive.org/details/lifeofcharlotteb02gaskrich/page/156
- Papa continues far from well; he is often very sickly in the morning,
{{quote-book|en|year=1958|author=Muriel Spark|title=Robinson|location=New York|publisher=New Directions|year_published=2003|chapter=9|page=128|url=https://archive.org/details/robinson00spar/page/128
Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. (q)
{{quote-text|en|year=1931|author=Pearl S. Buck|title=The Good Earth|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499111/page/n241|chapter=27|page=236|publisher=Modern Library|year_published=1944|location=New York
{{quote-book|en|year=1962|author=Rachel Carson|title=Silent Spring|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|chapter=6|page=79|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20151002/html.php
Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
1782, (w), ''(w),'' London: T. Payne and Son, and T. Cadell, Volume(nbs)1, Book(nbs)1, Chapter(nbs)9, p.(nbs)121,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004865984.0001.001
- ... she exhibited a countenance so wretched, and a complection so sickly, that Cecilia was impressed with horror at the sight.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=G.G.J. and J. Robinson|volume=3|chapter=12|pages=161–162|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004890413.0001.003
{{quote-book|en|year=1961|author=Joseph Heller|title=Catch-22|location=New York|publisher=Dell|chapter=39|url=https://archive.org/details/catch19612200hell
Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (''of light'') not very bright.
(syn)
{{quote-text|en|year=1665|author=John Dryden|title=The Indian Emperour|location=London|publisher=H. Herringman|year_published=1667|section=act II|page=17|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36631.0001.001
{{quote-book|en|year=1757|author=Thomas Gray|title=Odes|location=Dublin|publisher=G. Faulkner and J. Rudd|page=5|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004770273.0001.000
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Shirley)
(RQ:Twain Roughing It)
(quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Virago|section=1944, section 2, p. 226|url=https://archive.org/details/nightwatch00wate_0
(quote-text)|title=The Tragedy of Sophonisba|location=London|publisher=A. Millar|section=act II, scene 1|page=19|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004828444.0001.000
{{quote-text|en|year=1779|author=Hannah More|title=The Fatal Falsehood|location=London|publisher=T. Cadell|section=act II|page=27|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004803501.0001.000
(RQ:Heinlein Stranger) their manners, their bastard architecture and sickly arts … and their blind, pathetic, arrogant belief in their superiority long after their sun had set.
Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
(RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield)
(RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women)
(RQ:Wilde Dorian Gray)
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/herzog0bell|page=319|publisher=Viking|location=New York
(quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Faber & Faber|section=part 4|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ta5PDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
Tending to produce nausea.
{{quote-text|en|year=1865|author=Christina Rossetti|chapter=Amor Mundi|title=Goblin Market; The Prince’s Progress; and Other Poems|url=https://archive.org/details/talesfromshakesp00lamb6/page/286|page=286|publisher=Macmillan|year_published=1875|location=London
(RQ:Twain Huckleberry Finn) it warn’t no perfumery neither, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things;
(RQ:Wells Time Machine) the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine ... had absolutely upset my nerve.
{{quote-book|en|year=1944|author=Katherine Anne Porter|chapter=The Leaning Tower|title=The Leaning Tower and Other Stories|location=New York|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|page=173|url=https://archive.org/details/leaningtowerothe00port/page/172
(RQ:Lewis Babbitt) he was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.
(RQ:Graves Good-bye)
{{quote-book|en|year=1950|author=Mervyn Peake|title=Gormenghast|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine|year_published=1968|chapter=80|page=562|url=https://archive.org/details/gormenghast02peak/page/562
Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (''of a period of time'').
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
(ante), (w), undated letter in ''Original Letters,'' London: Logographic Press, 1788, pp.(nbs)110-111,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792584.0001.000
- ... if I thought the sentiments of your last letter were not the sentiments of a sickly moment—if I could be made to believe, for an instant, that they proceeded from you, in a sober, reflecting condition of your mind—I should give you over as incurable,
{{quote-book|en|year=1798|author=Thomas Malthus|title=An Essay on the Principle of Population|location=London|publisher=J. Johnson|chapter=7|page=115|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004860797.0001.000
Tending to produce disease or poor health.
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(quote-book): Inferno|location=London|publisher=Routledge|section=Canto 20, lines 79-81, p. 64|url=https://archive.org/details/divinecomedy01dantuoft/page/63
To make (something) sickly.
(quote-book)|title=An Epistle to (w)|location=London|publisher=for the author|page=12|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004801927.0001.000
{{quote-book|en|year=1840|author=S. M. Heaton|title=Thoughts on the Litany, by a naval officer’s orphan daughter|editor=George Heaton|location=London|publisher=William Edward Painter|section=Section 4, p. 58|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=w90DAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
{{quote-book|en|year=1862|author=Gail Hamilton|title=Country Living and Country Thinking|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|chapter=Men and Women|page=109|url=https://archive.org/details/countrylivingcou00dodg/page/108
{{quote-book|en|year=2000|author=Ninian Smart|title=World Philosophies|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|chapter=9|page=207|url=https://archive.org/details/worldphilosophie0000smar
To become sickly.
1889, (w), ''An Expositor’s Notebook,'' London: Richard D. Dickinson, 7th edition, Chapter(nbs)26, p.(nbs)364,https://archive.org/details/expositorsnotebo00coxs/page/364
- But the seven most prominent Apostles (..) still hang together, their hearts tormented with eager yet sad questionings, their hopes fast sicklying over with the pale hues of doubt.
In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
(quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Taylor and Hessey|section=Book 2, lines 859-861, p. 93|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91859/page/n109
(quote-text)|location=New York|publisher=Viking|year_published=1962|section=Chapter , p. 364|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215897/page/n371
(quote-text)|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1968|section=Chapter , p. 185|url=https://archive.org/details/newlifemala00mala
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Rowan Somerville|title=The End of Sleep|location=New York|publisher=Norton|chapter=9|page=66|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=rKKJIBp4i0oC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false