10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SICKLILY»
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
Because sickly is an adverb as well as an adjective, the term sicklily is a
needless variant. See adverbs (B). sight. See site. sight unseen. From a strictly
logical point of view, the phrase makes little sense. In practice, however, it has an
accepted ...
2
Charles Darwin Slept Here: Tales of Human History at World's End
A German cook (Lorenz), tubercular and with one foot in the grave, smiled sicklily
from the background and brought tea. After a few hours in Paradise, Mielche
moved on to the Eden of the Ritters. Ritter was fairly small, his legs had been ...
3
Garner's Modern American Usage
David Grimes, “Waking Up Is So Hard to Do,” Sarasota Herald-Trib., 7 Nov. 2002,
at E1. sick, adj.; sickly, adj. & adv.; ✳
sicklily, adv. While sick means “ill,” sickly (adj
.) means “habitually ill” <a sickly young man> or “associated with sickness” <a ...
4
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Eve 119 Sicklily. His will swayed sicklily from side to side, . 124.48 Sord. 2.846
Sickly. Springs up a fungous brood sickly and pale, 40.7 Paracelsus 3.542 Than
if, from the sound whole, a sickly part . . . 164.64 Sord. 6.123 Of the sickly babe
she ...
Who can forbear an admiration, almost amounting to enthusiasm, when he sees
one who can despise the empty honours of a college, and disdain to become "
small by degrees" ; who, instead of being a miserable satellite, sicklily reflecting ...
6
Novels and Tales: Reprinted from Household Words. ¬A house ...
Then I looked to the candle, flaring wretchedly and sicklily in that pure healthy
light. No one in the room but myself. Whirr-r, flapping! Three o'clock by the
canon's clock. At breakfast next morning — a fine, sunny, inspiring morning, too -
— out ...
'No, no more aren't we,' said the young woman loudly. 'But we shall be, a
Saturday.' Again she looked at the young man with a determined, protective look,
at once overbearing and very gentle. He grinned sicklily, turning away his head.
8
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
... a grim List — slur it over ! How ? If dreams were tried, His will swayed sicklily
from side to side, Nor merely neutralized his waking act AND HIS OWN
DEGRADATION IS COMPLETE. 69 But tended e'en.
Hegrinned sicklily, turning away his head. Shehadgot hismanhood, but Lord,
what did hecare! He had a strange furtive pride andslinking singleness. '
Goodluck to you,' said Birkin. 'Same toyou,' said theyoung woman. Then, rather
tentatively: ...
David Herbert Lawrence, 1920
10
St Mawr and Other Stories
In an hour, everybody was deathly white, and sicklily 30 grinning, thinking it a sort
of joke that would soon be over. Then everybody disappeared, and the game
went on : up, up, up, heavingly up, till a pause, Ah ! — then burr-rr-rr ! as the
screw ...
D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney, 1983
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SICKLILY»
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The theology of assholes: More on 'the insolent and sicklily …
God made them. And “God saw everything that God had made, and indeed, it was very good.” So if you're skeeved out by the existence of assholes — if you ... «Patheos, Aug 13»
