qualmish

Example Sentences

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All this is very queer now, thought Captain Delano, with a qualmish sort of emotion; but, as one feeling incipient sea-sickness, he strove, by ignoring the symptoms, to get rid of the malady.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

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

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

He watched as the good ship cut the sea, And bumpishly up-and-downed, And thought if already she qualmish might be, He'd consider his happiness crowned.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

"I hope there is no row between you;" for the idea of an open quarrel between Phil and Acton made Jack rather qualmish.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick

The regular heel of the brig gave place to a confused pitching and tossing, signs that I hailed with delight, in spite of a qualmish sensation which the motion seemed to encourage.

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)