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Mr. Palka wrote Mr. Metrose shortly after: “I’m so sorry to hear this news Ian. Sickens me. We worked so hard to try to avoid this day. I am so completely sad.”

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Your dainty soul Sickens at our gross penalties; and so We'll not inflict them on your noble self, Although we have the power.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

The sun is up already; and my heart Sickens and sinks within me when I think How many tragedies will be enacted Before his setting.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

She has loved and been loved so often In her long, immortal years, That she tires of the worn-out rapture, Sickens of hopes and fears.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Reared between night and noon and truth and error,    Each twilight-travelling bird that trills and screams Sickens at midday, nor can face for terror    The imperious heaven's inevitable extremes.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles