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  • And at the same time, most of the passengers were seized with a nausea that produced violent retchings.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • What her genius refused was supplied by accident; for she had not lived four months in the garrison, when she was seized with frequent qualms and retchings; in a word, she congratulated herself on the symptoms of her own fertility; and the commodore was transported with joy at the prospect of an heir of his own begetting.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • In the gray twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste.

    A Reader's Manifesto 2001

  • In the gray twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste.

    A Reader's Manifesto 2001

  • Teshoo Lama, withdrew itself from the Great Soul with strivings and yearnings and retchings and agonies not to be told.

    Kim 2003

  • But the fact is, that the stomach of poor Sancho was of necessity not so delicate as that of his master, and so, before vomiting, he was seized with such gripings and retchings, and such sweats and faintness, that verily and truly be believed his last hour had come, and finding himself so racked and tormented he cursed the balsam and the thief that had given it to him.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Finally the shark plunged under the surface and swam away as fast as inhumanly possible, leaving a swath of bubbly retchings behind.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • Finally the shark plunged under the surface and swam away as fast as inhumanly possible, leaving a swath of bubbly retchings behind.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • Points were awarded by the cheers, jeers, and occasional retchings of the onlookers.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • The very thought of his filthy repast drives the rascal to most fearful retchings.

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

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