How To Use Sickly In A Sentence
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The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt flesh and the chemical smell of the fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill.
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It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge.
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Without them the place was sickly quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it.
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A former drug addict and reformed hellraiser, he's on the comeback trail with a sickly song that gradually starts to work its way up the charts.
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The violence of the past-specifically, the dreaded practice of necklacing, which mingled the smell of rubber with the ‘sickly stench of roasting human flesh’ has been eliminated.
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We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly.
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The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt flesh and the chemical smell of the fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is strong language, but it is time, and more than time, that sickly dilettanteism should be left behind, and this gross libel on the
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
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A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man.
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I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.
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Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
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Cold weather was much better than the intense, sickly feeling that occurred in the summertime.
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They are both light and feminine, with rose top notes and a girly feel without being sweet or sickly.
The Sun
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He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him.
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Bright white and blue flowers bloomed from them and smelled almost sickly sweet.
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The sickly cannonier, who had the constitution of a rhinoceros, and had never had a day's illness since he got over the measles at the age of four years, waited a little, and tried the second "dodge," usually resorted to in such cases.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
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The computer made a sickly beeping sound and a box popped onto the screen.
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Erin had been a very thin and somewhat sickly girl, supposedly anorexic or bulimic.
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The wonderful smell of lady's bedstraw not as sickly as meadowsweet becomes stronger with drying.
How to make żubrówka
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Colonel Brandon mentions wearing one, and Marianne takes this as a sign he is old and sickly, and incapable of being a lover.
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I tallied our money, sorted it, found a sickly rubber band in the glove compartment to wrap around it.
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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He saw how people seemed thinner and underfed, almost sickly.
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They often just turn sickly.
The Sun
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They often look sickly in winter but recover in spring.
The Sun
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His eyes were closed and his face a sickly pale colour.
The Sun
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Eran gave her a grin that could only be described as sickly.
Highborn
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It was thickly covered with milk chocolate, which increased the sickly sweetness of the ice-cream to a nauseous intensity.
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It's all complemented with the serious pathos of Hattori's sickly and melancholy wife and naturally the full-tilt violence with numberless ruffians and no-account villains feeling Zatoichi's cold steel.
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Her pale face stood out against the warm, creamy colours of the pillows and sheets, some of the smaller bruises starting to turn the sickly colour of yellow and brown.
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Sometimes the train puffed between lines of grey slab fencing in which were armies of white skeleton trees that had been 'rung' for extermination, or with bleached stumps sticking up in a chaos of felled trunks, while in some there had sprung up sickly iron-bark saplings.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Its founder, Joseph Pilates, was born in Dusseldorf in 1880 and despite being a rather sickly child who suffered from rickets, asthma and rheumatic fever, he lived to the age of 87.
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His brown shoulder length hair was thinning at the scalp and his skin seemed pale and sickly in garish torchlight.
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As ever, the sickly smell of darkroom chemicals hung heavy in the air.
AMAGANSETT
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Jenny Jones was a thin woman now, and looked peaked and sickly.
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When it struck a herd, up to 90 per cent died and the surviving animals became sickly and unproductive.
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Its purpose is to "aromatise" rooms, but replace the sickly aromatic oil with H2O and it will create a humid atmosphere, particularly if you've crammed plants on windowsills above radiators in desperate search of light.
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Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif!
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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Some of the boxes only contained body parts and there was a sickly smell.
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There was an awful, sickly stench.
The Sun
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A rare example of the sickly British economy outperforming its peers below the equator.
Times, Sunday Times
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Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome.
The Romance of the Forest
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The fish has a nice, impressive appearance but there is no flavour at all of the fish; only the sickly metallic taste of the molasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looks like death: the darkened rings under her eyes make her look like a sickly panda.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was described as having ‘a sickly, pasty complexion’.
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Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts.
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Within minutes the miniature oasis was no more, a flavescent smudge of decay against the sickly, pallid earth.
A Triumph of Souls
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He was one of the originals; a slight weak man with a rather sickly constitution.
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We think of petit fours as rather sickly, quaint little cakes.
The Sun
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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I'd love to report on the puddings - sickly-sweet baklava is a favourite of mine - but I was simply too full to even contemplate another course.
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Rumoured to be sickly, deformed and incapable of producing heirs, Carlos was widely held to have only a few years to live.
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I can't abide the sickly sweet flavour of parsnips.
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We think of petit fours as rather sickly, quaint little cakes.
The Sun
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Originally from Colombia, cumbia has traditionally been a sickly-sweet, anodyne affair for dancing couples.
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He smiled after a sickly fashion, and nodded his head in token of surrender.
CHAPTER I
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The emptiness of it all is to be hidden under the esctasy – contorted faces, twisted limbs, saints, whose only true passion is the dread of their own engulfing doubt, which they try to drown in sickly exaltation.
Jenny: A Novel
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There is, one might observe, truth in the aesthetic, but truth defined by the aesthetic easily descends into sickly aestheticism.
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Sparta was a martial society, which did away with any sickly child at birth.
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A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man.
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When I was a child, I was a weak, sickly little thing.
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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Instead of verdant green, I'm a glow-in-the-dark sickly pale, bearing only the beginnings of undeveloped fruit and struggling to survive.
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She scended forward, heavily and sickly, on the long swell.
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In about a third of the homes I saw the sickly blue flicker of televisions bleeding through the curtains.
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Though it does soundtrack a sad scene for lovely Kurt, it was one of the world's most sickly songs in the first place, and the Glee treatment turns it so sugary it makes candyfloss taste like salt and vinegar crisps.
Glee is back but which song will be the new Don't Stop Believing?
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I said no more, consuming my rasher of bacon and pint of sickly tea in silence.
A MAN AND THE ABYSS
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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Speaking of which, the skin that was bruised gleamed in a sickly yellowish hue, but the swelling has subsided at least.
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The fish has a nice, impressive appearance but there is no flavour at all of the fish; only the sickly metallic taste of the molasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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They often look sickly in winter but recover in spring.
The Sun
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I left thoroughly turned-off by the film's weak, sickly ending.
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All the lush greenstuff seemed to be issuing its sap, till the air was deathly, sickly with the smell of greenness.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
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I am exceedingly melancholy of complexion, subject to consumptions and chilliness of my vital spirits, a slavish and sickly life being allotted to me in his city.
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As a result of what he named “hospitalism,” Spitz described the development of a condition called “marasmus,” in which children became depressed and withdrawn, failed to thrive and develop, and in many instances became sickly and died.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
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Her legs were encased in a sickly green, nacreous material that was solid from the knees down, breaking apart into a delicate lace patterning over her thighs and waist.
Crimson Wind
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Sickness in birds may be diagnosed from their plumage, which is ruffled when they are sickly instead of lying smooth as when they are well.
The History of Animals
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The smells of hot wax and carbon mingled with pine and the sickly sweet fetor which old people exude when they are almost ready to go over.
THE BROKEN GOD
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It was a tough birth, and I was a frail, sickly infant.
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His brother is too sickly to do any chores, so Chris ends up working on the house and slopping the hogs while his father drives hours to his job.
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She was filled with a sickly sense of fear and the realization that she was facing her own imminent doom.
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My true love returned a fortnight later, clearly shocked to see such a pale, weak and sickly frame propped up against a mountain of pillows.
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A rare example of the sickly British economy outperforming its peers below the equator.
Times, Sunday Times
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But in them his swift imagination visioned the joys of life they would buy, and all the desires and appetites of his diseased mind and sickly flesh were tickled by the promise they extended.
JUST MEAT
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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The only sort of eye to be found in Dunham's paintings puts in an appearance in Beautiful Dirt Valley: the disembodied eye of heaven hovering in a sickly sky.
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Once I witnessed the dawn breaking as I went out to check a sickly lamb.
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If an eight-year-old girl in Zambia is sickly and anemic, what difference does that make in our wifi world?
Princess Haya Al Hussein: Putting Food First
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She takes it all in her stride, including his abuse of other staff and customers, but draws the line when he takes potshots at her sickly young son.
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He was a sickly grey color, his glasses were slightly askew, his hair was limp as if he hadn't even bothered with it that morning, and his coat and pants were rumpled.
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Aaron went back to his sickly field and farmhouse.
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Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray.
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Thus some complain that it is a gloomy religion; others go to the opposite extreme and accuse it of pointing to a state of perpetual chocolate cream; yet again it is attacked on grounds of effeminancy, it is upbraided as being fond of a sickly sentimentalism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Despite the sickly light off the bulb, its luminescence still showed that the color of the image had not been diminished by time.
COLDHEART CANYON
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And that sickly-sweet music with birds chirping, water babbling, and the rush of wheat fields in the wind seemed brain numbing.
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This is where Byron installed his carriages, his manservant, his mistress, as well as several cats, a mastiff, a pair of cranes, a fox, a wolf, at least two monkeys and a sickly crow.
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At the mention of his name Tarzan had noted the sickly pallor that overspread the features of the Hun.
Tarzan the Untamed
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‘Bon,’ Mademoiselle Piera said from the table, flashing Ryan her best sickly saccharine smile.
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I smiled a sickly half smile, and then stirred some baking powder into the sponge cake batter.
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The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
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Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.
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A moan from the sickly lad in the corner of the hut, roused David from the amazed stare with which he was contemplating the little eager, wiry, energetic old man.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
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Hong Kong's sickly economy is bouncing back to good health say employers, workers and consumers.
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But we don't see sickly animals, and they could be dying out at sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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They often just turn sickly.
The Sun
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If there was anything to be salvaged from the situation, it might've been said to have been worth it for the sickly expression on Rupert's face.
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The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
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Like the diarist, the other two men were sickly, and they seemingly starved after their applications for welfare were rejected.
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The awareness of this kind of selfhood, this personal self, is like looking at one's reflection in the mirror and saying, "Ah, I have on a becoming attire," or "my face looks sickly to-day.
Cosmic Consciousness
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All the while, the Wampanoag, including their "sachem," or leader, Massasoit, were observing these sickly looking visitors, frail from hunger and disease, knowing they could wipe them out with one fell swoop.
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For the citizens of China, Indonesia, and Russia, which together account for over 1/4 of the world's population, a sickly gerontocracy means perpetual speculation and uncertainty.
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Tests on animals have a high failure rate, and a tendency to produce sickly and malformed clones.
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Two aisles diverged 'neath a yellow face, that bore a sickly, foolish grin.
With Robert Frost, at Wal-Mart
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Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle.
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But unfortunately the overall effect is that of musical candyfloss: it's sickly sweet when you're chewing on it, but there's no real sense of satisfaction afterwards.
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A sickly light, errant and pellucid, thrilled above him.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
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The reason that “sicklist” prayers are so sickly is that they do not often truly “hunger and thirst for righteousness.” yet at the same time they are appropriate, for a longing for Shalom, a longing for peace, includes the holistic restoration of all that was lost in the fall, including physical illness and infirmaties.
Uncommon Prayer – Grasping for the Wind
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They often look sickly in winter but recover in spring.
The Sun
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The light from my lantern seemed no more than a sickly yellow glow against the gloom, and higher, some forty or fifty feet, and a few ratlines below the futtock rigging on the starboard side, there was another glow of yellowness in the night.
The Ghost Pirates
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Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now.
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones.
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A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed.
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Nor was this all-pervading caress a something that cloyed with too great sweetness; nor was it sickly sentimental; nor was it maudlin with love's madness.
Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
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Sickly sentimentalism about sacrifice for others!
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You squint a little at the sickly yellow light of a roadside diner, and rub your fingers against each other, thinking you can feel menu grease on them.
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I tallied our money, sorted it, found a sickly rubber band in the glove compartment to wrap around it.
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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His wife is frail and sickly, and he is often without work.
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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I may be attracted to sickly people but most of my friends who work in the public sector suffer a mysterious illness and retire on full index-linked pensions at the first opportunity, normally 50.
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It took me 15 years to realise that it was a tragic, sickly delusion.
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The wines are superbly rich and honeyed, without being sickly sweet.
Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
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A sickly smell wafted through the house.
The Sun
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They were being effeminated and corrupted -- that is to say, absorbed in the foul, sickly enveloping forms.
A Voyage to Arcturus
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Others found the cheesecake-like texture claggy, even sickly.
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His sickly white skin busied itself with actively resisting the urge to create melanin, so as to not contrast with his tightly cropped flaxen hair.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Other things about your characters that rarely matter
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I am now down to eight and a half stone and have a sickly pallor.
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A rare example of the sickly British economy outperforming its peers below the equator.
Times, Sunday Times
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This story is so sugar-coated, sappy, and sickly sweet that I contracted diabetes while watching it.
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Clad in a dark silk robe-de-chambre, with her cheek pressed against the blue velvet lining of the chair, Cornelia's face wore a sickly, sallow hue, which was rendered more palpable by her black, glittering eyes and jetty hair.
Beulah
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These were full of the last of the foxgloves and the sickly, overpowering waft of the mysterious stinkhorn fungus.
How to get back to nature when camping
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They often just turn sickly.
The Sun
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Some of the boxes only contained body parts and there was a sickly smell.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole party, however, and a more amiable never existed, were scared and disgusted into this by the catachrestic language and skeleton half-truths of the systematic divines of the Synod of Dort on the one hand, and by the sickly broodings of the Pietists and Solomon's-Song preachers on the other.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The couple's relationship wallowed in a sickly world of lovey-dovey cuddly animalness.
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The blonde girl stepped forward leading a sickly boy of about two.
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APRIL'I would avoid pastel tones as that is likely to make her look pale and sickly.
The Sun
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Up close he smelt all sweet and sickly, like a wilting honeysuckle tendril.
BEHINDLINGS
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes.
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As in many of her stories, there is a sickly mother in ‘Meneseteung,’ and we know that Munro as a high-school girl had to do all the housekeeping at home because her mother had Parkinsonism as a result of encephalitis.
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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New to the popular world of sunless-bronzage techniques, the product uses mini towelettes to sequentially exfoliate, tan, and moisturize sickly grey skin into an even, un-orange glow, promise the makers.
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When he stepped out into the heat again, the problems of a sickly car seemed piffling, and he set to solving them with a will.
EVERVILLE
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Many families from New Orleans, and other exposed situations, retire to the pine barrens of Louisiana, in the hot and sickly season, where limpid streams, flowing over a pebbly bed, and a terebinthine atmosphere are enjoyed.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West
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However, you still shouldn't serve a hefty oaked wine, such as Burgundy, at a temperature of 21°C or more, making it taste soupy or sickly.
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In the corner of his room a sickly yellow glow was permeating through his wall, passing though it and away.
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‘Remove these weak and sickly ones,’ he commanded of the soldiers that accompanied him.
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The entire early sequence of the sickly young James Howlett and his childhood “friend” Victor Logan, with James’s father, Thomas, being murdered by Victor’s father, Thomas, and James losing his head and extending bone claws from the backs of his hands to avenge Thomas’s death is great.
Movie Review – X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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She began to cough and splutter sickly, the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly.
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She has a saccharine smile on her face and her voice is sickly sweet.
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Despite the sickly light off the bulb, its luminescence still showed that the color of the image had not been diminished by time.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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A sickly smell of decaying fish came from the dirty river.
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Seventy years later my mother can still remember her tender father staying up half the night stroking the fevered brow of his sickly youngest daughter before going to work at three in the morning.
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Frozen in place, he noted how the red costume was perforated with holes of varying sizes, and that the flesh beneath was a sickly gray.
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It spilled out, a sickly ribbon of yellow jaundice that crept from the antechamber in a ghostly thread.
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A rare example of the sickly British economy outperforming its peers below the equator.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war.
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A wave of sickly air struck her, smelling of camphor and dirt.
GALILEE
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He was a rather thin and sickly looking middle-aged man, with a long nose, and that seemingly perpetual look of sadness, much resembling a basset hound's.
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About thirty airmen sat around wearing a variety of expressions from sickly smiles to tough bravado.
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Many dogs are mangy, sickly or hungry, and often roam in packs.
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When he asked the question, he shifted back to a patronising, sickly treacle-sweet voice.
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Other research from the organisation highlights that millions of birds die each year because of cat predations, starvation and the weak and sickly condition of hatchlings.
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The sun never made quite an effect on him, resulting in a sickly pale complexion, which was the basis of many a taunt.
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Their skin is sickly pale, their eyes restless.
Times, Sunday Times
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But we don't see sickly animals, and they could be dying out at sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their skin is sickly pale, their eyes restless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
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All life had drained out of his face but it had been left, not sickly or feeble, but hard and dark like carved stone.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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Anything that looks as though you've worked on it feels almost sickly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sickly-sweet smell of sewage from leaking pipes mingles with the scent of fresh cherry blossom.
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Again, she tried to scream but one of the figures put a sickly smelling cloth on her nose and mouth and she began to feel tired.
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The only light, a sickly blue glow, oozed from phosphorescent mosses and fungi, gathered into baskets and hung from iron pegs in the wall.
A TIME OF WAR
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Wardle suggests that it was compelling but marred by sickly sentimentality, and also proposes that Hazlitt might even have been anticipating some of the experiments in chronology made by later novelists.
William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The sickly sweet smell is inescapable at local rock shows…
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But we don't see sickly animals, and they could be dying out at sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lyrics are so endearing, the sentiment so sickly sweet, that you can't help but sing along in faux earnest.
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And the master to'd me, he did, as you was on'y a bit of a sickly slip of a lad as he left in London or elsewhere when he come out here -- a poor, thin, weak, wankle sort o 'gentleman, not what he is now.
First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
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It's unseasonably warm and sunny, as if God is trying to give New Yorkers a break and the sickly sweet smell of decaying flowers mixes with the acrid smoke.
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Suddenly, he felt a warning, just a hint of the sickly sweet odour he remembered so vividly from the marketplace.
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This improbable though captivating adventure slides neatly from sickly empire to bloody revolution that tears the lovers apart.
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For instance, young seen as being sickly or weak may be abandoned or killed.
The Sun
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She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes.
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When the light-dapples on the floor were long and tinged with sickly orange, a servant came in with bread and cheese and water.
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