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  • I am dog-sick of this uproar of wonderment and peeping curiosity.

    Letter 83 2009

  • Not but what I was dog-sick of it at times, but still I thought I was livin ', -- thought this was life, and, of course, now I know it ain't.

    The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919

  • I saw what was the matter long ago -- she was motor-sick, an 'tiara-sick, an' dog-sick, an 'horse-sick.

    Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904

  • It was strange to see this hulking fellow dog-sick, and this delicate, sad woman caring for him.

    Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • I came home at half-past nine, without waiting the ballet, but I was dog-sick of the whole of it.

    The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

  • After settling in to the backpackers we werent very savvy and had a fairly woeful thai meal that was like sugary dog-sick.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • Another, from the invisible horrors of a pen where he lay dog-sick upon the upper-shelf, found courage, in a blink of his sufferings, to give us several verses of the 'Death of Nelson'; and it was odd and eerie to hear the chorus breathe feebly from all sorts of dark corners, and 'this day has done his dooty' rise and fall and be taken up again in this dim inferno, to an accompaniment of plunging, hollow-sounding bows and the rattling spray-showers overhead.

    Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • "Not but what," continued Captain Jo, "they've behaved well, though dog-sick to a man from the time we left port.

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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