Example Sentences

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Disagreeable feeling in occiput, running down over the neck, followed by a slight qualmishness.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

On first awaking, the female feels as well as usual, but on rising from her bed qualmishness begins and perhaps while in the act of dressing retching and vomiting takes place.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

In spite of a little feeling of qualmishness, which even his boasted disbelief in ghosts did not save him from, Mr. Henderson was about to spring upon the thing and solve the mystery.

From Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder by Rockwood, Roy

The cabin rocked and the boys, at least, felt a qualmishness in the pit of the stomach that forbade further eating.

From On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake by Rockwood, Roy

The man looked like a patchwork of qualmishness, tribulation, and unctuous piety, and his coat collar was badly frayed.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson