sicken with
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“Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2021
Then she did not pine away, nor sicken with despair, being of a great courage, strong to bear evil and misfortune, and not made of the stuff that gives way under cruel deception and disappointment.
From My Little Lady by Eleanor Frances Poynter
We sicken with the same maladies as the poets, and the singer lends us his pain.
From Intentions by Oscar Wilde
Everything he suggested to himself made him sicken with weariness or distaste: the seaside, a foreign land, a fresh life that he had often dreamed of, farming in Canada.
From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Tell me, did you not droop and sicken with your darling?
From Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
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