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Sea-sickness is only detestable and horrid, like sleet, and muddy weather, and poison ivy; besides, I'd rather be sea-sick than have the hives.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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Sea-sickness again attacked me, and with short lulls during our stoppages at Port Elizabeth and East
Prester John 2005
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Sea-sickness very rife, almost every one suffering more or less.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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Sea-sickness is only detestable and horrid, like sleet, and muddy weather, and poison ivy; besides, I'd rather be sea-sick than have the hives.
Chapter 9 1914
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Sea-sickness again attacked me, and with short lulls during our stoppages at Port Elizabeth and East London, I lay wretchedly in my bunk till we sighted the bluffs of Durban harbour.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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Sea-sickness and child-birth when they are over, the pangs of despised love when that love is finally forgotten or requited, the travail of sin when once salvation is assured, all melt away and dissolve like a morning mist leaving a clear sky without a vestige of sorrow.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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Sea-sickness wore off after a day or two, and was succeeded by the monotony of life on board a small ship.
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Sea-sickness wore off after a day or two, and was succeeded by the monotony of life on board a small ship.
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Sea-sickness may be prevented by drinking the drippings from a bamboo punt-pole mixed with boiling water, or by inserting a lump of burnt mortar from a stove into the hair, without letting anybody know it is there; also by writing the character _earth_ on the palm of the hand previous to going on board ship.
Historic China, and other sketches Herbert Allen Giles 1890
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Sea-sickness nearly killed him, so he stayed behind while the other adventurers went and laid the foundation.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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