brainsickly
- a word derived from brainsick.
Example Sentences
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Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things—Go, get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.—
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey
What they produce in us will be not interest but a kind of wondering weariness—weariness at the weary fate of men who could 'think so brainsickly of things.'
From Is Life Worth Living? by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things.—Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.—
From Macbeth by Shakespeare, William
First put together these her utterances: "You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things."
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George
"You do unbend your noble strength, my lord!" she said, "to think so brainsickly of things!" throwing into the word, "brainsickly," exaggerated stage-rant.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by Cooke, John Esten