Use sick in a sentence
Sentences starting with sick
- Sick of my unwalled, solitary realm, I ask to change the myriad lifeless worlds I visit as mine own for one poor patch Of this dull spheroid and a little breath To shape in word or deed to serve my kind. [6]
- Sick at the sight I left the place, and went on, almost mechanically, to Voban's house. [11]
- Sick on its English side--for the very first time since its birth, ninety-one years gone by. [5]
- Sick people don't bother me, I give myself to 'em. [9]
- Sick young man. [5]
Sentences ending with sick
- I do believe you are sick. [5]
- You are all witnesses, But you all hear me--I will punish the murderer of the wretched sick! [10]
- By and by we asked about it--Tom did and the waiter said it was a man, but he didn't look sick. [5]
- I thought he was sick. [5]
- While Mrs. B. was sick, on 15th, I went directly from her room a few rods, and attended another woman, who was not sick. [3]
- She said it was particularly good for the sick. [10]
- You are very, very sick! [5]
- On Sundays we used to go into the Common and feed them, before Daddy got sick. [9]
- Retrospection left me trembling and almost sick. [9]
- I seldom venture to think about our landed wealth, for "hope deferred maketh the heart sick. [5]
Short sentences using sick
- He was sick with despair. [11]
- Don't answer--I spare the sick. [5]
- Now you'll be sick. [8]
- They are al-ways sick. [5]
- Then he fell sick. [11]
- It makes me sick. [11]
- Is he pretty sick, father? [11]
- That'll make 'em sick enough. [4]
- He never was sick before. [5]
- If she's sick, she's love-sick. [8]
Sentences containing sick two or more times
- Some of them were actually ill, or had at home a sick husband or a sick daughter. [4]
- The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
- Now I'm willing to do this: I'll straighten everything up, get matters in smooth running order, and day after to-morrow I'll go to bed sick, and stay sick three weeks. [5]
- Pa says a storm's coming, and that you'd be as sick as sick. [4]
- He felt sick of himself, sick of his life and of all his works. [8]
- I was sick of him, and sick of Grafton, I tell you. [9]
- When I first knew him out in Indianapolis he was starving along with a sick wife and a sick newspaper. [8]
- I know the folks that think they're dying as soon as they're sick, and the folks that never find out they 're sick till they're dead. [6]
- Several sick persons, eager for some communication from the gods, and some who, without being sick, had slept in the Serapeum, had by this time left their beds, and were taking counsel in the great hall with interpreters and physicians. [10]
More example sentences with the word sick in them
- And you say you're not sick, and so I don't see why we shouldn't come to business. [8]
- You go to your sick wife, and I will take the key to the senator as soon as I have finished my devotions. [10]
- They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
- Fust I thot you was deef and dumb, then I thot you was sick or crazy, or suthin', and then by and by I begin to reckon you was a passel of sickly fools that couldn't think of nothing to say. [5]
- I can tell you all that you wish to know, my Master, for, during forty-five years, I devoted my humble services to the sick poor there. [10]
- But I warn you all that a time 's coming when you're going to feel sick whenever you think of this day. [5]
- A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earthworms and the expressed juice of wood-lice. [6]
- Diodoros was no worse, and Galen was certainly expected to visit the sick in the Serapeum. [10]
- I got sick worryin', and when I was strong enough to be around they'd filled my job at the grocery, and it wasn't long before we had to move out of our little home in Alder Street. [9]
- She was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, and every day and every night it was her prayer to be allowed to live till she got it done, but she never got the chance. [5]
- So he sent word to the sick man, that he should be pleased to visit him and have some conversation with him; and received for answer that he would be welcome. [6]
- Thus she was wont, at the most unexpected moments, to betray the passion within her, the passion that made him sick with desire. [9]
- When yonder sick woman seemed to be drawing near her end she asked for the sacrament, which was administered by the Dominican. [10]
- Of a sick woman He said that Satan had bound her; and to Peter He said, "Thou art an offense unto me. [5]
- We travelled on without speakin' for a long time, and then I heard him say absently: 'I am sick of that. [11]
- I grow sick with wondering why. [13]
- They were sick with the evil skin, and starving. [11]
- Wolf was acquainted with the city, and perhaps would spare him a walk by informing him where the sick lads would find the best shelter. [10]
- She was sick with regret, vexation, and shame; at the first flush, death--for Frank--had been preferable to this. [11]
- Adrian hurried home with his vial, and in his joy at bringing the sick lady relief, forgot her headache and struck the knocker violently against the door. [10]
- His skill and wisdom were the last tribunal to which the sick and suffering could appeal. [3]
- The expedition of Winthrop was scattered by a storm, and reached Salem with the loss of threescore dead and many sick, to find as many of the colony dead, and all disconsolate. [4]
- The tall lady, whose noble face and majestic figure were shrouded in a thick veil, was Juliane's mother--and she had offered the sick ropedancer a home in her wealthy household. [10]
- Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
- Others there were who were sick of the world and wished "to be well out of it"--as they said to themselves. [11]
- But to-day--a little while ago--something went wrong with me, and I got sick in the head, a swimming like a tide wash in and out. [11]
- But the Serapeum, where the sick lie awaiting divine or diabolical counsel in dreams--Galen will go there. [10]
- Before mother died, when she was sick, she always said I'd ought to have been a nurse. [9]
- The two former were to attend to the sick in the infirmary, to ring the bell and chant the services as usual, that the escape of the rest might not be suspected; and Joanna, Paula, and Pulcheria, were to assist them. [10]
- Just as we were starting, the old woman screamed out from the door, in a shrill voice, addressing the driver, "Did you see ary a sick man 'bout 'Tigonish? [4]
- Many sick persons were borne to the temple in the hope of cure; so Dion's appearance would cause no special surprise. [10]
- Pains came and went, and at times I felt like a fagot flung into the fire,--I, who had never known a sick day. [9]
- Is it not well to remind the student from time to time that a physician's business is to avert disease, to heal the sick, to prolong life, and to diminish suffering? [3]
- If thou thinkest well of it, leave this sick land for that new one. [11]
- Yet, as the weeks passed, it seemed he must break upon this dangerous romance; and then suddenly she went to visit her sick aunt in the Far West. [11]
- But what it was, no one could tell: it might be some caprice of a sick and half-crazy man, or it might relate to public affairs, or possibly to family concerns. [2]
- The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. [2]
- My next thought was to find Mr. Mason, but he was gone up the river to visit a sick parishioner. [9]
- But while I was sick, Adler's things had been sold and scattered, all except a few old letters, and some odds and ends of no value. [5]
- The gunner, too, was sick unto death, but "hope of trucking" kept him on his feet,--a Yankee, it should seem, when he first touched the shore of New England. [3]
- They knew she was sick at heart, because she grew pale and silent; they did not know for some months how shamed she was. [11]
- But her heart was sick and miserable. [11]
- Column after column was occupied, a third of its way down, with glaring head-lines, which it made my heart sick to read. [5]
- Of course Marget was miserably embarrassed, for she had no reason to suppose there would be half enough for a sick bird. [5]
- The sick man was going to be swallowed up in the flames before it could possibly arrive. [6]
- The sick man was given something to drink, there was a stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service continued. [2]
- Shure the Cure was for iver broken-hearted, for that he was sick abed for days an' could not go to the house when the woman died, an' say to Rosalie, 'Let me in for her last hour. [11]
- If the dining-room was empty, other unprecedented demands were made upon Henrica, for then her aunt, who could not endure to be alone a moment, was sick and miserable, and she was obliged to nurse her. [10]
- The sick man was borne round the eastern side of the huge building, which covered a space on which a whole village might have stood. [10]
- The other stranger was a New Englander of respectable appearance, with a grave, hard, honest, hay-bearded face, who had come to serve the sick and wounded on the battle-field and in its immediate neighborhood. [6]
- That afternoon there was a great tumult in Rouen, and excited crowds were flocking through all the chief streets, chattering and seeking for news; for a report had gone abroad that Joan of Arc was sick until death. [5]
- When they were wandering about, she seldom thought of this, but now she could not help considering what would become of them if he fell sick, or her own strength were to fail her. [12]
- Her slumber was very light, and she often opened her large, blue eyes and gazed with touching anxiety at the sick woman. [10]
- I wrote some verses once myself, but I had been sick and was very weak; hadn't strength enough to write in prose, I suppose. [6]
- Since I grew up I have attended to our sick, and I cannot tell you how many fractures, wounds, hurts, and fevers I have cured or seen progress to a fatal end. [10]
- When the physician turned round and saw her calmly and quietly wiping the cold drops from the sick man's brow, he said gloomily: "Of what use is it to shut our eyes like the ostrich. [10]
- Well then, your trouble with Herdegen is sick and sore and lies right deep. [10]
- The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. [2]
- Then the duke took and wrote out a sign on a shingle so: Sick Arab--but harmless when not out of his head. [5]
- A sick Chinaman told me only a week ago that Li Choo was 'once big high boss Chinaman in Pekin. [11]
- As I said to you, I was sick of blood. [11]
- Three should go to the sick woman, but Lienhard Groland would have the largest and finest. [10]
- A woman come to the parish an' was took sick in the house of her brother--from France she was. [11]
- They are appealing to the detestable old superstitious presumption in favor of whatever is nauseous and noxious as being good for the sick. [3]
- I was minded to seek her there, and went by the ante-chamber where the sick lady's writing-table and books stood, and which led to the sitting chamber. [10]
- My father used to say that the world was only the size of four walls to a sick person. [11]
- I got Johnny to row--not because I mind exertion myself, but because it makes me sick to ride backwards when I am at work. [5]
- The physician's efforts to revive the sufferer were presently successful; again the sick man opened his eyes, and spoke more distinctly and loudly than before: "There is a perfume of musk. [10]
- I didn't forget to mention how you nursed Blake's poor old mother when she was sick, an' how good you was to Dorn's kids. [13]
- It is enough to make a body sick. [5]
- Junia had come to know of it through a neighbour and had sent jellies to the sick woman. [11]
- She had learned to knit stockings since Prince Andrew had casually mentioned that no one nursed the sick so well as old nurses who knit stockings, and that there is something soothing in the knitting of stockings. [2]
- If fees continue to increase as they have done in the past ten years in the great cities, like New York, nobody not a millionaire can afford to be sick. [4]
- He went up to his sick friend, their eyes met and each could see that the eyes of the other were dimmed with tears. [10]
- The ground seemed to heave beneath her feet; sick and giddy she put out her hand to find some support, that she might not sink on her knees; in so doing, she caught the tall tripod which held the dish of coals. [10]
- I was beginning to feel fairly comfortable once more, after my night's rest, but the look of that envelope makes me sick. [5]
- Thus, the attempt to establish a presumption against giving poisons to sick persons was considered as equivalent to condemning the use of these substances. [6]
- I had little to do; there was only one sick man on board, and my hand could not cure his sickness. [11]
- He was sick to death--not with illness alone, but with disappointment and broken hopes and a burden beyond the powers of any one man. [11]
- It is apt to be weak when one is in perfect health; but when one is sick it grows strong. [4]
- I would like to be so sick that I couldn't think of anything else. [11]
- Suffering no one to accompany him, he carried the sick man to the boat which had brought the Queen's messenger to Rozel Bay. [11]
- And half the time they ain't sick at all,--they only imagine it. [9]
- For the first time he saw in her the suffering which often causes a metamorphosis in certain traits in a sick person's character extend their transforming power to the entire nature. [10]
- For the first time he found the duty he loved a wearisome burthen; the sick man was a tormenting spirit in league with the world against his peace of mind. [10]
- This was the time at which the "notes" of any who were in affliction from loss of friends, the sick who were doubtful of recovery, those who had cause to be grateful for preservation of life or other signal blessing, were wont to be read. [6]
- It was not till the sick-nurse came back that the tumult was appeased; for, as soon as she learned how seriously the loud disputes of her fellow-believers were disturbing the sick man's rest, she interfered so effectually, that the house was as silent as before. [10]
- Nor was it till my love had made him a complete and truly happy man that he had felt, as it were, whole, inasmuch as that alone had stilled the strange craving which till then had made his heart sick. [10]
- He wanted to--he thought I was sick. [9]
- And there was this unfortunate deserted sick man lying between life and death, beyond all help unless some unexpected assistance should come to his rescue. [6]
- It was in this hour that the sick man opened his eyes and raised his head, as though the mysterious influence of primitive life were rousing him. [11]
- The landlord found this document and, being able to read, confirmed the statement of the sick youth; he was, however, soon seized by a fresh attack of fever, and began to speak incoherently. [10]
- She did not think about it one way or the other; her mind was with the sick Benoit. [11]
- I got the thing, and the first rat that showed his nose I let drive, and if he'd a stayed where he was he'd a been a tolerable sick rat. [5]
- He had left these quiet scenes inexperienced and untravelled, to be thrust suddenly into the thick of a struggle of nations over a sick land. [11]
- If he is there, I will say a word to him that I have wait long to say, then shut the door on us both--for I am sick of life--and watch him and laugh at him till the end comes. [11]
- Mistress Henneleinlein just then came out whereas she had been helping Dame Giovanna to tend the sick grandmother. [10]
- Age had altered them but little; her face was now that of a good-looking, plump, easy-going matron, which had lost its freshness through long and devoted attendance on the sick man. [10]
- Underbred people tease their sick and dying friends to death. [6]
- They looked after the youth, who had taken his bow and arrows, as he went up the mountain to hunt a wild goat; for Petrus had prescribed a strengthening diet for the sick man. [10]
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