sicken with
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“Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2021
The Mungana's eyes seemed to sink into his head, and his face to sicken with terror.
From A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa by Henry Rider Haggard
The remembrance that it was the night of the mail, and that, if no letter came, she must endure another week of waiting, made her heart sicken with impatient longing.
From Christie Redfern's Troubles by Edward Barnard Lintott
What light was left in the world, cut off from the source of life, seemed to sicken with a strange decay.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair, The while she bathes us in her own chaste glow, And with our memory wings her own fond prayer.
From The Christian Year by John Keble
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