sickening

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He imagined the first beginnings of suspicion; he saw it filming the eyes of his acquaintances, then of his friends, and at last sicklying over the face even of his brother Silas.

From Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

And therefore West, after an hour of delightful tête-à-tête in the charming little back parlor, stiffened himself up, his brow sicklying o'er with the pale cast of disagreeable thought, and began to make it.

From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

Growing quite staid in manner, the weight of India adding gravity to his looks, sicklying his young face o'er with pale cast of thought.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various

No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in hand, Aline and I are to float into eternity!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

They believe that on public occasions the chuprassies have sometimes the power of sicklying them o'er with the pale cast of neglect.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert