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Stiff, qualmish, vacant of body, heart, and brain, I left my penitential boulder and crawled down to the road.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Naturally our handsome youth felt rather qualmish under the circumstances, and he would have given his carriage and horses to have had eyes at the back of his head.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
Got up at half past five, found some difficulty in shaving and a little qualmish.
From A Journey to America in 1834 by Robert Heywood
Madam, give me leave to take a Glass of Sack, I am qualmish.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
"I hope there is no row between you;" for the idea of an open quarrel between Phil and Acton made Jack rather qualmish.
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson
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