mal de mer
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Talbot exclaims at one point, but the energy he might have devoted to metaphysical speculations on this insight pour instead into keeping himself upright on the heaving decks and avoiding mal de mer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other solutions, like cutting from the right side of a frame to the left within what was originally one shot, were so dislocating that they induced brief spells of mal de mer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aboard the Berengaria Queen Marie at first kept to her suite of staterooms, alleging mal de mer, though the crossing was anything but rough.
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His fear of mal de mer prevented him from carrying out frequent plans for coming to the U. S. Died.
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It seemed to them like a personal affront for anyone not to succumb to mal de mer.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise
