qualmish

Example Sentences

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On getting up felt qualmish and took a little coffee, but was soon forced to part with it.

From A Journey to America in 1834 by Heywood, Robert

The gallant fellow's stomach, too, was qualmish and disturbed.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

"If Britannia rules the waves," said a qualmish writing-master, going to Margate last week in a storm, "I wish she'd rule 'em straighter."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 by Various

In the back of the house was a projecting stone figure, with its mouth open, an uncomfortable expression of face, arms akimbo, and hands pressing the sides, as if in a qualmish state.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.

The time is gone by when men, or women either, were too qualmish and too queasy to admit the truth even to themselves.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony