sickliness

There was something in her posture that gave an impression of sickliness.

And his son is no fool for all his sickliness.

It had seemed as if he were truly alive then, sickliness and all, and now was only an imitation.

He had outgrown sickliness in childhood but still looked delicate, ethereal.

It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.

Brazilian champagne, sweet to the point of sickliness.

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

The power: of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll.

Dostoyevsky could have revealed his sickliness and childishness.

The chill and sickliness of night's lowest ebb pervaded the dingy hotel room.

Meanwhile, the sickliness of the corporate bond market is also seen in the rising interest rates that high-yield issues must pay to attract investors.

I suspect that this good behavior reflects a certain sickliness; their leaves, being less green, aren't very proficient at photosynthesis.

His sickliness however prevented him from devoting his whole energy to the new era of Prussian public life that was then just beginning.

I do beseech your Majesty impute his words To wayward sickliness and age in him.

Frightening as his brother Nikolai's thinness and sickliness had been before, he was now still thinner, still more wasted.

Phillips was then thirty, and in indifferent health, though this was but a continuation of the sickliness which had so often made his childhood miserable.

To further advertise his sickliness, he was gnawing like a starved squirrel on a capped pill bottle.

Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness.

Her "sickliness," observed Ethan, gave her just what she wanted--a reputation in the community.

That he had grown out of his sickliness and had acquired an athletic, muscled body was of no import.

The smell was terrible, a mixture of sweat, goat, damp straw and something he could not quite identify: a sickliness, like decaying flowers.

And her brother wasn't any help-his sickliness was worse lately, too; he coughed all the time, bringing up thick fluid and sometimes blood.

She blessed her concealing bonnet, and used her sickliness as excuse to keep her head and voice low.

The result is very similar to Cointreau but fresher and without the cloying sickliness which some like and I don't.

Boswell was unhappy there, and his sickliness began to manifest itself in the physical indicants associated with nightmares and extreme shyness.