sickliness

As she approached Julie she raised her eyes absently, and Julie saw a face of singular and delicate beauty, marred, however, by the suggestion of physical fragility, even sickliness, which is carried with it.

Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

"sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1899

Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle.

Mary Barton 2010

Fingers crossed the sickliness gets itself gone forthwith.

Courted: a dirge (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010

He had a philosophy that his mother, what of her chronic sickliness, was not much of an eater anyway.

THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010

To be fair, amid all the grumbling he finds plenty to admire, not least the lovely medieval jumble of Old Town in Estonia's capital, Tallinn; the music of Arvo Pärt; the Grimm flair of Estonian names Tarmo, Gerli, Epp; and, with characteristic contrariness, Vana Tallinn, a revolting liqueur of unidentifiable sickliness and bogus antiquity.

Stranger In a Strange Land Andrew Stuttaford 2011

He had a philosophy that his mother, what of her chronic sickliness, was not much of an eater anyway.

THE APOSTATE 2010

And to add insult to injury, when he complains about it he succeeds only in calling attention to his own chronic sickliness.

Japan's Basel Blowback 2010

Her voice is ghostly sweet, saved from sickliness by guttural Björk-ish quirks; backed up by electropop whimsy and twinkly piano, it is supremely suited to the sentiment.

Ellie Goulding's summer of love 2010

And to add insult to injury, when he complains about it he succeeds only in calling attention to his own chronic sickliness.

Japan's Basel Blowback 2010