sicklies

We then spent the rest of the day sleeping – what a pathetic pair of sicklies we are!

bumpsadaisy Diary Entry bumpsadaisy 2006

As a class, they were timid, —with good reason, —and timidity, which is high wisdom in philosophy, sicklies the whole cast of thought in action.

Eccentricity (1863) 1918

To feel the first kiss and forebode the last -- that is the shadow that haunts every joy, and sicklies o'er every action of him whom life has thus taught to look before and after.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Is this the remembrance for which the essayist sicklies his visage over with the pale cast of thought?

Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878

The pale cast of thought sicklies over everything.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

"A pest upon that learning, -- it sicklies and womanizes men's minds!" exclaimed Warwick, bluntly.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"A pest upon that learning, -- it sicklies and womanizes men's minds!" exclaimed Warwick, bluntly.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

How thoroughly, with respect to one attribute of this temperament which he possessed, -- one, that "sicklies o'er" the face of happiness itself, -- he was understood by the person most interested in observing him, will appear from the following anecdote, as related by himself. [

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815