syke
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Howbeit her majesty was so thoroughly jolted and unsettled by the “slapping pace” at which she travelled, that she had a bilious attack forthwith, and was “sore syke, and like to die.”
From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o’ Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
It neither grew in syke nor ditch,Nor yet in ony sheugh;But at the gates o ParadiseThat birk grew fair eneugh.
From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew
July 31st, by old Kalender, abowt an eleven of the clok Jane was at London very faynt syke, redy to swownd, and in a faynt swete.
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John
In these lay a gret multitude of syke men, blinde, crokid, and drye.—Wicliffe,
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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