qualmish
Example Sentences
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All this is very queer now, thought Captain Delano, with a qualmish sort of emotion; but, as one feeling incipient sea-sickness, he strove, by ignoring the symptoms, to get rid of the malady.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
But now, faced with the unpleasant part of his task, he was beginning to feel decidedly qualmish.
From Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne
Naturally our handsome youth felt rather qualmish under the circumstances, and he would have given his carriage and horses to have had eyes at the back of his head.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
Now, captain, it’s no use being qualmish upon the subject, but upon my word I should like to see how you poachers manage to take your game.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
He was qualmish, but his Saga of triumph upheld him.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling
