qualmish

Example Sentences

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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

So, conscience being a brave supporter, I abode in silence, though not without many queer and qualmish thoughts, and a pit-patting of the heart, not unco pleasant in the tholing.

From The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by Moir, David Macbeth

An alderman, carried in a porter’s basket, at his own door, is thrown out of it in a qualmish state.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

So, conscience being a brave supporter, I abode in silence, though not without many queer and qualmish p. 148thoughts, and a pit-patting of the heart, not unco pleasant in the tholing.

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin

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)