qualmish

Example Sentences

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The smell of the flat, unpalatable stuff makes you feel more qualmish than ever; the remedy is worse than the evil.

From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by O'Rell, Max

Yet, notwithstanding folks might scout it, It suited qualmish Spinsters, who fell sick, And didn’t wish the world to know about it.

From Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." by Colman, George

On getting up felt qualmish and took a little coffee, but was soon forced to part with it.

From A Journey to America in 1834 by Heywood, Robert

The regular heel of the brig gave place to a confused pitching and tossing, signs that I hailed with delight, in spite of a qualmish sensation which the motion seemed to encourage.

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Although the binoculars had forewarned them of this, the adventurers bunched together on the deck with a qualmish feeling and began talking in low tones, as men converse in the presence of mystery, or death.

From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.