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The landlady and her daughter thought he was rather peakish, but he had not complained.

From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

She bore an unhappy infant in her arms, whose melancholy peakish face, not twelve-months old, looked already conscious of prevailing misery.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

I will see, if any be ready here at home, Or whether Jacob have any, that peakish mome.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew