sickliness

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Subconsciously trying to build break into the stroke sicklies o’er the native hue, etc.

From Golf Digest • May 7, 2020

There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes�the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pale cast of thought sicklies over everything.

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

Is this the remembrance for which the essayist sicklies his visage over with the pale cast of thought?

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean

As a class, they were timid -- with good reason -- and timidity, which is high wisdom in philosophy, sicklies the whole cast of thought in action.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry