make one sick
Example Sentences
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"To act as a physician," he writes, "the priest must make one sick!"
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2013
He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great many people applied for medicine, and some of the maladies, specially when they affect children, make one sick at heart.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The painting of your house may, from the damp, have given you cold-I don't conceive that paint can affect one otherwise, if it does not make one sick, as it does me of all things.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
Enough gossip and nonsense was talked to make one sick, and I'm sure it wasn't the fault of my head that my hair didn't stand on end.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
