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Sentences ending with sickly

She looks somewhat pale and sickly. [14]
His lips were greasy with meat as he stood up, and a fear sprang to his face, so that its fat looked sickly. [11]

More example sentences with the word sickly in them

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]
Ann likewise understood what had brought her sickly friend to her, and she whispered to me that albeit she was deeply thankful for the abundant goodness my aunt had ever shown her, yet could she never swerve from her well-considered purpose. [10]
But the responses were sickly, there was no starting any enthusiasm; he would give it up and quit--it was a day specially picked out and consecrated to failures. [5]
When the Lady Wendula, his master's mother, learned what an excellent reputation Biberli had gained as a schoolmaster, she persuaded her husband to send him as esquire with their sickly son. [10]
The May weather was already sickly hot. [9]
It was a very sickly green, from which wan and dusty fig trees rose. [11]
Those eyes lit up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. [2]
A blade gleamed under the sickly light of the fish-oil lamp overhead, but a man crashed through from behind and caught the ruffian's sword-arm and flung him back in the kennel. [9]
Tears, genuine, honest, unaffected tears filled her eyes as she went on: "Here I he, a poor sickly woman, sensitive in body and in soul as if I were covered with wounds. [10]
It was a two-story log house situated on a small knoll in the midst of the vast basin or desert through which the sickly Carson winds its melancholy way. [5]
The water was trickling out of a leaky butt, and a most wretched cat was lapping up the drops with the sickly eagerness of starvation. [12]
I directed her to tell you to use your own pleasure whether to stay or come, and I did not say it is sickly and that you should on no account come. [7]
We have got to be ruled by strangers; and who would not rather pay small tribute to the wise and healthy Khalif at Medina than a heavy one to the sickly imperial brood of Melchites at Constantinople. [10]
On each of these little graves was a flower, a sickly geranium, or a humble marigold, or some other floral token of affection. [4]
When he sat there,--yonder there, over there,--with his white face, and red head, and sickly smile, why didn't I know what was passing in his heart? [12]
He remembered now the sickly, pungent air that floated past, and how Valmond, weak from the loss of blood in the fight at the smithy, shuddered, and drew his cloak about him. [11]
Mr. Lonsdale concluded that it had deserted its sickly mate; but after an absence of twenty-four hours it returned, and apparently communicated the result of its successful exploration, for both then started along the same track and disappeared over the wall. [1]
Its grimy, narrow streets, unlovely houses, with shut windows, summer though it was, and no softening influences anywhere, save here and there a box of sickly geraniums in the windows, all struck his mind in a way they had never done before. [11]
As King Philip's sole heir was the sickly Don Carlos----" "His son Geronimo might aspire to the crown," interrupted Granvelle. [10]
So rough and so good!--My old man, to be sure, must storm and rave, but then his feeble and sickly nobody of a little wife can wind him round her finger. [10]
And my feeble, sickly Aunt Jacoba, meseemed, was like-minded with me. [10]
Captain Martin, "always sickly and unserviceable, and desirous to enjoy the credit of his supposed art of finding the gold mine," took passage. [4]
He fancied he saw something pathetically innocent in that frightened, sickly little face. [2]
Even in that sandy plain, covered with sickly, stunted pines and burned patches, stretching westward from the Merrimac, Silas saw beauty and colour, life in the once prosperous houses not yet abandoned.... [9]
It was a poor apartment, with a shabby bed and some odds and ends of old furniture in it, and was vaguely lighted by a couple of sickly candles. [5]
To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan. [4]
His stubby fingers perspired and showed sickly in the light. [11]
A sickly pallor overspread his countenance, and he trembled like an aspen. [5]
Howbeit I remembered our talk yesternight, and the sleigh I had seen being harnessed; indeed, the look alone which the unwonted traveller cast on me was enough to tell me what my sickly aunt purposed to do for the sake of Ann. [10]
Valmond watched like one in a dream, and twice or thrice he turned faint, and drew his cloak about him as if he were cold; for a sickly air, passing by, seemed to fill his lungs with poison. [11]
Why, I could not tell, save that the crying seemed so a part of the landscape that it might have come out of the sickly sunset, out of the yellow sky, out of the aching earth about me. [11]
The tread reached my very door and paused--the light had dwindled to a sickly blue, and all things about me lay in a spectral twilight. [5]
None in Nuremberg might compare with these two for manly dignity and womanly beauty, and was that sickly, bent horseman by the ditch worthy of them? [10]
He saw that Lady Belward had a sickly fear in her face, while Sir William had gone stern and hard. [11]
There were people in the sickly gardens, and others were inspecting the Tanks. [11]
Across the aisle in the front seat sat a meek, farmer-looking old man with a sickly pallor in his face, and he was holding the door open with his foot to get the air. [5]
The sickly feeling in Mr. Worthington's diaphragm had now returned. [9]
It is quite impossible--unless one is a poetical genius--to reproduce on paper that gone and sickly sensation which is, paradoxically, so exquisite. [9]
He was not ill-looking, according to the village standard, parted his hair smoothly, tied his white cravat carefully, was fluent, plausible, had a gift in prayer, was considered eloquent, was fond of listening to their spiritual experiences, and had a sickly wife. [6]
They recalled the hot morning, when they sauntered over the trodden weed that covered the sickly grass-plots there, and sentimentalized the sweltering paupers who had crept out of the squalid tenements about for a breath of air after a sleepless night. [8]
She then returned home, and immediately began to suffer from her old enemy, sickly and depressing headache. [14]
He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan which aroused his own pity. [2]
The winter in Haworth had been a sickly season. [14]
He had light hair, sandy side-whiskers, a face that looked as if it had been scrubbed with soap and sandpaper, and he wore a sickly yellow traveling-suit. [4]
The mosses and fungi gather on sickly trees, not thriving ones; and the odious parasites which fasten on the human frame choose that which is already enfeebled. [6]
Papa continues far from well; he is often very sickly in the morning, a symptom which I have remarked before in his aggravated attacks of bronchitis; unless he should get much better, I shall never think of leaving him to go to London. [14]
It was after four o'clock, the day was fading, the street lamps were beginning to cast sickly streaks of jade-coloured light across the slush of the pavements. [9]
His father, Martin Farquhar Tupper, was sickly, and died young, but he was the sweetest disposition.--His mother had heart disease but was very gentle and resigned, and a wonderful ratter. [5]
Most people have experienced that sickly feeling of the diaphragm which sometimes comes from a sadden shock. [9]
I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. [5]
We proceeded to dress by the gloom of a couple sickly candles, but we could hardly button anything, our hands shook so. [5]
But just judging by this episode, what would my father have done to me if I had ever uttered in his hearing one of the flat, sickly things these "two-years-olds" say in print nowadays? [5]
It was noticed by the friends of nature that when the peculiar coal-tar colors were discovered, the same faded, aesthetic, and sometimes sickly colors began to appear in the ornamental flower-beds and masses of foliage plants. [4]
It lit, burned blue and sickly, and then budded into a robust flame. [5]
His lips drew back, disclosing long dark teeth and sickly gums, in a grimace of fury. [11]
Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. [2]
Dusk was gathering, and with it a smoke-stained fog that lent a sickly tinge to the lights. [9]
The candle spluttered, and the hut filled with a sickly smoke. [11]
It was nearly all leaf and blow, with only a sickly, crook-necked fruit after a mighty fuss. [4]
We stood inhaling a sickly steam in a large, close hall, which was wholly occupied by a huge vat, across which low partitions, with bridges, ran, dividing it into four compartments. [4]

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