dead-sick

Then there were personal attentions to be rendered which required the nerve of a hospital nurse; my resolution was so tried, it sometimes fell dead-sick.

Villette 2003

Grey's bed shook as dead-sick Johnny Hawkins stumbled against it, half-awake, heading for the latrines.

King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962

Nor, again, that he himself was sick at his heart, and at the very yolk of his heart, at sin, dead-sick with hatred and disgust at sin, and correspondingly sick with love and longing after Jesus Christ.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

I sh'd think you'd be so dead-sick o 'the sight o' them pieces 't you'd be glad to dump the whole in the fire.

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop Anne Warner 1891

I remember Mrs. Macy's sayin 'once 't a baby was sweetest when it cooes,' n 'I don't want to miss nothin', 'n' we ain't never kep 'doves for me to be dead-sick o' the noise, so I want the cooin 'age.

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop Anne Warner 1891

Nor, again, that he himself was sick at his heart, and at the very yolk of his heart, at sin, dead-sick with hatred and disgust at sin, and correspondingly sick with love and longing after Jesus Christ.

Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

'Some of the ideas he has are Lord Fleetwood's, I hear, and one can understand them in a man of enormous wealth, who doesn't know what to do with himself and is dead-sick of flattery; though it seems odd for an English nobleman to be raving about Nature.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

'Some of the ideas he has are Lord Fleetwood's, I hear, and one can understand them in a man of enormous wealth, who doesn't know what to do with himself and is dead-sick of flattery; though it seems odd for an English nobleman to be raving about Nature.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

'Some of the ideas he has are Lord Fleetwood's, I hear, and one can understand them in a man of enormous wealth, who doesn't know what to do with himself and is dead-sick of flattery; though it seems odd for an English nobleman to be raving about Nature.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

Then there were personal attentions to be rendered which required the nerve of a hospital nurse; my resolution was so tried, it sometimes fell dead-sick.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835