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Examples
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"And I've seen father sea-sick on occasion," she answered.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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Miss West may be sea-sick, but she cannot be comatose, because at frequent intervals she sends the steward to me with more cream of tartar.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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Wada, too, is sea-sick, although heroically he kept his feet and tried to tend on me with glassy, unseeing eyes.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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The air was thick and murky with the smoke of it; and this, combined with the violent movement of the ship as she struggled through the storm, would surely have made me sea-sick had I been a victim to that malady.
Chapter 4 2010
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Small wonder that Miss West remains sea-sick on an ocean like this, which has become a factory where the veering gales manufacture the selectest and most mountainous brands of cross-seas.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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She was as rosy and vital as ever, and certainly, if she had been sea-sick, she flew no signals of it.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Indeed, as the economy has rocked and tumbled its way through 2009, spewing jobs like a sea-sick tourist, these have become very, very bad days.
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Indeed, as the economy has rocked and tumbled its way through 2009, spewing jobs like a sea-sick tourist, these have become very, very bad days.
Balancing the recession on the backs of the young « Dating Jesus 2009
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In fact, the totality of impression she conveyed was of a well-groomedness one would not expect of a sea-captain's daughter, much less of a woman who had been sea-sick.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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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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