The place was a foul, reeking shambles, so filthy as to be positively sickening, with motionless bodies stretched here and there along the deck.

I was literally sickened by the horrible scene, and began to wish most fervently that I had been the one to draw the shortest twig, for it was by no means agreeable to remain there idle while murder was being done, even though it was a bitter enemy who had thus been cowardly done to death.

The Hindoo will not touch a dead carcase, so that when a bullock mysteriously sickens and dies, the Chumars haul away the body, and appropriate the skin.

But as a man to whom a dreadful loss Falls in a far land and he knows it not, But coming back he learns it, and the loss So pains him that he sickens nigh to death; So fared it with Geraint, who being prick'd In combat with the follower of Limours, Bled underneath his armor secretly, And so rode on, nor told his gentle wife What ail'd him, hardly knowing it himself, Till his eye darken'd and his helmet wagg'd;

Such sights as I had seen did not physically sicken, nor even much horrify, me.

God purposely sickens us of man and of self, that we may learn to "look long at Jesus.

In spite of the best feeding and every care he had gradually sickened until he was too weak to stand, and in this condition there had been no option but to put him out of misery.

Oh Janet, when I feel as tired as I do to-night I get terribly sickened with all this humdrum life on the farm!