qualmish

Example Sentences

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Madam, give me leave to take a Glass of Sack, I am qualmish.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous

The time is gone by when men, or women either, were too qualmish and too queasy to admit the truth even to themselves.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

“Not very,” said I, for I was qualmish still, although the fresh air had considerably revived me even in the short time since I had come out of the close cabin.

From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by Schonberg, J.

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 Melville, Herman

"I hope there is no row between you;" for the idea of an open quarrel between Phil and Acton made Jack rather qualmish.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick