make one sick
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"To act as a physician," he writes, "the priest must make one sick!"
From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2013
He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some mold gives bread, cheese, and other food a bad taste, but it will not make one sick.
From Health Lessons Book 1 by Davison, Alvin
The papers make one sick with talking of that noisy vapouring fool, as they would of Algernon Sidney.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
It is enough to make one sick of soldiering.
From With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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