qualmish

• My muse is taken a little qualmish, therefore pray excuse her. —  Life and Remains of John Clare
• He was qualmish, but his Saga of triumph upheld him Three years ago I come to Canada by steerage--third class. —  Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
• Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship; it is like a qualmish liqueur in the midst of a bottle of wine. —  Vivian Grey
• Instead of making him qualmish, the green roarers of the Channel had braced his nerves, and put him in good heart; the boat could not roll and pitch half enough for his spirits. —  Will Warburton
• Titmarsh, madam, has been of late, Sam says, rather poorly,--qualmish of mornings, madam,--a little nervous, and low in spirits,--symptoms, madam, that are scarcely to be mistaken in a young married person Mrs. Hoggarty said she had an admirable cordial that she would send Mrs. Samuel Titmarsh, and she was perfectly certain it would do her good With very great unwillingness I was obliged now to bring my last reserve into the field, and may tell you what that was, Sam my boy, now that the matter is so long passed. —  The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

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