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  • "And I've seen father sea-sick on occasion," she answered.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • 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

  • Wada, too, is sea-sick, although heroically he kept his feet and tried to tend on me with glassy, unseeing eyes.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    12 « November « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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