"Be sick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with his Margate trips, and a most substantial breakfast of beef-steaks and porter, tea, eggs, muffins, prawns, and fried ham, held out as long as anybody—indeed, at one time the odds were that he would not be sick at all; and he kept walking up and down deck like a true British tar. In one of his turns he was observed to make a full stop.—Immediately before the boiler his eye caught a cadaverous-looking countenance that rose between ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees
... "He looks like a chap I saw once get into a coffin at the Cabaret de l'Enfer—that shady restaurant place in the Boulevard de Clichy. When they turned on the lights ..." He shrugged. "The women of the party thought it simply ripping. I wanted to be sick." ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... army would be sick if it stayed long enough; that it was simply a question of getting that town just as soon as possible. I knew the strength, the courage, and the will of my men, or I thought I did, and the result shows that I was not mistaken. It was a question of starting the moment we landed ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... have had enough of that sort of thing.... I should think you'ld be sick of wanting to hurt people. You don't like ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... into the tent where she was, and asked for them. She sat upon a saddle of a camel, the saddle having been laid down at the side of the tent, and under this camel's saddle were the images. Rachel pretended to be sick, and said she could not rise. Her father, Laban, supposed that she told the truth, and looked everywhere but under the camel's saddle, where really the lost images were. He failed in the search, and went back ...
— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage
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