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Origin of qualmish
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So, conscience being a brave supporter, I abode in silence, though not without many queer and qualmish p. 148thoughts, and a pit-patting of the heart, not unco pleasant in the tholing.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Charles Martin Hardie
But now, faced with the unpleasant part of his task, he was beginning to feel decidedly qualmish.
From Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne
Yet, notwithstanding folks might scout it, It suited qualmish Spinsters, who fell sick, And didn’t wish the world to know about it.
From Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." by George Colman
Madam, give me leave to take a Glass of Sack, I am qualmish.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
He watched as the good ship cut the sea, And bumpishly up-and-downed, And thought if already she qualmish might be, He'd consider his happiness crowned.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
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