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
She told her that nothing was easier than to lure the prince into marrying her; and all sorts of other things that were enough to make one sick!
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The painting of your house may, from the damp, have given you cold-I don't conceive that paint can affect one otherwise, if it does not make one sick, as it does me of all things.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
I should like to knock him down when he looks at you out of those loathsome eyes, and talks rot enough to make one sick.
From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Harold Piffard
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