qualmish
Example Sentences
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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
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)
The smell of the flat, unpalatable stuff makes you feel more qualmish than ever; the remedy is worse than the evil.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by O'Rell, Max
Although the binoculars had forewarned them of this, the adventurers bunched together on the deck with a qualmish feeling and began talking in low tones, as men converse in the presence of mystery, or death.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.
He was qualmish, but his Saga of triumph upheld him.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
