Fringing her quays are frayed palmetto posts, Where clipper ships once moored along the ways, And fanlight doorways, sunstruck with old ghosts, Sicken with loves of her lost yesterdays.
But to enumerate all the horrors, and to paint the scene with sufficiently forcible life-like delineation, would be beyond the capabilities of our pen, and would only sicken our readers by the perusal.
So I ast the doctor ef it would likely kill the cat, an' he said he reckoned not, though it might sicken her a little.
Only Mother Shipton--once the strongest of the party--seemed to sicken and fade.
He felt that if he brooded on what he had gone through he would sickenor grow mad.
There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them.
Like fishes, we do not bite when the east wind blows; like ducks and eels, we sicken or go mad in thunder.
I really sicken To think of such abomination; Fellows, who wont eat ham with chicken, To legislate for this great nation!
On which the lonely moonlight sleeps-- The very vultures turn away, And sicken at so foul a prey!
Plants in such a soil are apt to sicken and die, the water becomes stagnant, and certain chemical actions are caused which give rise to poisonous gases, such as sulphuretted hydrogen, &c.
Too great an amount of moisture renders the land cold; air cannot obtain access to the soil-particles, and the plants sicken and die.
She did not mind any amount of deprivation for herself,--but could she see Ernestine pine and sicken for want of nourishing food?
Thus, consciously and voluntarily, he has let you sicken and languish, and now he would carry you to America to bury you there.
Tut, you foolish girl; it's enough to sicken one to hear you spake such stuff!
I am not able to listen to it; it would sicken me soon.
Queasy sentimentality to sicken a bee, and, for the rest, don't forget that Jesus died for you to make money out of novels.
Only Mother Shipton--once the strongest of the party-- seemed to sicken and fade.
One glance upon that lip, beside whose hue The morning rose would sicken and grow pale, 'Till it was waked again by the soft breath That steals in music from those lips of love.
Can aught so beautiful, despise the glare, And fade, and sickenin the morning light?
A man of Mr. Thornton's immense mind cannot but sicken of entomology, and return to chemistry.
Oh, never imagine that I can sicken of hearing or reading that you love me," she answered.
I am afraid I sicken you with such fondness," he concluded.
Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave; 10 Not thou, vain lord of Wantonness and Ease!
The horrible furtive looks of the wretched inhabitants hovering around one's boat haunts me, and the knowledge of their want of nourishment would sicken anyone.
You assured me that if I was churlish enough to leave, Miles would slowly sicken and pine away!
