green-sick

Alcibiades, or Michael Archangel, seems green-sick with a love mainly physical; his Socrates has the combed resignation of his Jeromes and

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

This green-sick blight, which turns a lusty soldier

Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts Lewis Morris 1870

I hope you did, for I should be ashamed to think that you could think to gratify me by such praise, fit only to be a cordial to some green-sick sonneteer.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

Our car of progress, of which we hear so much, has carried us from the Vates 'vision of Milton and Dante to Alfred Austin's yaller doggerel -- to the raucous twitterings of grown men who aspire to play Persian bulbul instead of planting post-holes, who mistake some spavined mule for Bellerophon's Mount and go chasing metrical rainbows when they should be drawing a fat bacon rind adown the shining blade of a bucksaw; from the flame sighs of Sappho, that breed mutiny in the blood, to the green-sick maunderings of atrabilarious maids who are best qualified to build soft-soap or take a fall out of the corrugated bosom of a washboard.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

He had at last found a place which he did not intend to leave until they fetched him out -- a place that some might have thought a little on the green-sick side, that others might have considered to be a little too redolent of long-dead and morbid things for a living man to be mewed up in, but ah, so irresistible, with such an authority of its own, with such an associate of its own, and a place of such delights when once a man had ceased to struggle against its inexorable will!

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

I never could bear to see a fellow ashore with his flippers shoed like his feet; but at sea, confound me, it would make a man green-sick over again! "

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various