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
A great many people applied for medicine, and some of the maladies, specially when they affect children, make one sick at heart.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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)
In the end nothing fit to eat was served; filthy porridge with lumps in it and salt fish reheated not for the first time, enough to make one sick.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan
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