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  • verb Present participle of sickly.

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Examples

  • Growing quite staid in manner, the weight of India adding gravity to his looks, sicklying his young face o'er with pale cast of thought.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various

  • And therefore West, after an hour of delightful _tête-à-tête_ in the charming little back parlor, stiffened himself up, his brow sicklying o'er with the pale cast of disagreeable thought, and began to make it.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • They believe that on public occasions the chuprassies have sometimes the power of sicklying them o'er with the pale cast of neglect.

    Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864

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