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Meanings of more sickly in English

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Usage of more sickly in English
1
Think not too hard on it, lest your pallor grow yet more sickly.
Forge of Darkness
2
Am I more feeble, am I thinner, am I more sickly than my neighbours?
Ben Hadden; or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It
3
Time was getting on, and the air in the small room was growing more sickly.
Of Human Bondage
4
Anaiyella's simper grew more sickly, and she cringed slightly.
Knife of dreams
5
That the slightest provocation could mean shortened rations, perhaps death for the more sickly among them?
Return of the Crimson Guard
6
This accused villager paled, his hollow unshaven cheeks turning even more sickly, and he bowed and fled.
Stonewielder
7
Then sickly-looking men passed, with still more sickly-looking wives, some of them leading a child between them.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 1
8
The air seemed close and suffocating, and the lamps to burn with a more sickly flame than usual.
Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines
9
The road became more and more sickly: wrinkles of ruts, boils of hardened clay, the sad infirmities of old age!
Autobiography of a Yogi
10
He smiled, more sickly than sporty, and Humes-Talbot cleared his throat and said, We thank you for the information and hospitality, madam.
The Wolf’s Hour
11
People complained that the season was even more sickly than in the plague year, and prophesied a new and worse outbreak of the pestilence.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
12
The old idea that the feeble young man must be fitted for the ministry, because the more sickly the more saintly, has gone out.
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
13
"Amateur puppy," Namshiel snarled, and began to gather more sickly green power at his fingertips.
Small favor
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