sickly

I had always been told that I was a sickly child who lived mainly on medicines during the first seven years of my life.

She had turned into a sickly woman. . . . . . . . . . Unable to have children.

She was a sickly, crippled child who turned herself into a world-class runner through tremendous determination and discipline.

He did not feel cold in this sickly-tepid tropical sea : soon he would be feeling too hot again , he knew .

Their faces are concealed within the dark folds of a cowl, from which peer their sickly glowing yellow eyes.

O liver was now officially an undertaker's assistant. It was a good, sickly time of year, and coffins were selling well.

He looked at it carefully, then he said: "No. This sheep is already very sickly. Make me another. " So I made another drawing.

However, several times a day he telephones his wife and his taciturn manner is replaced by a sickly cooing.

His father was a sickly man and his mother washed clothing for a living.

Ihad always been a sickly child, suffering more than my fair share of childhood ailments: asthma, chest infections and flu.

They were all pale, flabby, sunken-eyed, hollow-chested, with eyes that glinted and shone and lips that were a sickly red by contrast.

In one particularly acrobatic leap, he hints that Poe's time in his mother's sickly womb led him to write about claustrophobia.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

DO NOT be a three bottle woman: Flower (only beauty) bottle; Vinegar (Jealousy) bottle; Medicine (sickly) bottle.

The worst-tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into its teens.

An interesting one for a married couple to take on, this was far from a vanity project or a sickly love-in.

You'd have to so abuse your body that it was basically as frail and sickly as that of an 80-year-old. Or maybe nutritionally starve it.

"Give it, it seems. . . " He did not finish, and smiled a forced and sickly smile.

If he had been small or puny or sickly or misshapen he would've been discarded.

The police broke the husband's leg and beat his wife's flesh a sickly purple.

She was pale; she had a very weary and rather sickly appearance.

Then in July comes Captain America: The First Avenger, in which the sickly character Steve Rogers is transformed into a perfect specimen.

Even though I didn't have to take 11 pills a day, he did. I've never weighed a frail, sickly 80 pounds, but because of IT, she did.

If he'd been small or puny or sickly or misshapen. . . he would have been discarded.

a skinny , sickly and , for much of his life , skint individual , perutz is an unlikely hero.

Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering.

Of late, data show the economy is slowing, with housing once more looking very sickly after the expiry of government support in April.

Because this undersized , sickly, disagreeable, fascinating little man was right all the time. The joke was on us.

But it is a sickly thing to them, and gladly would they get out of their skin.

But in recent days it has been the sickly Chinese stock market that has been blamed for infecting markets in other parts of the world.

Strong as he is now, he was small and sickly in his childhood.

The idea of imitating France, with its budget deficits and sickly manufacturing sector, seems bizarre.

He had been a sickly child.

It decided to make the game's villains a group of sickly-looking green pigs, in homage to the swine-flu pandemic then grabbing headlines.

The bottom line is simple: when the world is sickly, investing in companies that depend on expanding global demand is bold.

Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light in the sky.

Puma was transformed from a sickly feline into a magnificent beast.

Keeping hospitals and power plants running with a depleted, sickly workforce will be extremely difficult.

she was a little woman , frail , and even sickly looking.

Like the diarist, the other two men were sickly, and they seemingly starved after their applications for welfare were rejected.

Countries praying that trade will compensate for sickly domestic demand will not take kindly to Japan's export-snatching manoeuvres.

The massive demon's skin is sickly yellow in color, and its reddish-black wings and horns glisten evilly in the light.

Flavoured with "dragon fruit and green tea" , it looked like lemonade and tasted like a sickly alcopop.

The eggs looked a little sickly, and he was convinced he had damaged them beyond repair.

He climbed into the conning tower, his eyes haunted and sickly bright.

Vacuum-packed chicken salad, sickly Subway pastries, Special K, orange juice in a plastic container. . .

Some of Jesse's brothers and sisters died while still young. Jesse was a sickly child.

Unless the elder brother is very sickly, I suppose you would not ask above fifty thousand pounds.

Again, it's about the cast (healthy or sickly) the reflected glow throws on your skin, not whether a color matches your complexion.

Sickly younger brother has always been like flying.

Progress trammelled is sickly, and is subject to these tragic epilepsies.

I should be glad to know what connection there can possibly be between your sickly sentimentality and the affairs of the state!

Londhar walked onto the plain, the Darkstar's shadow looming before him, a poisonous mist glowing sickly green in the morning light.

I'd have my scalp completely shaved; they would put sickly reptilian skin on my hands and cover my eyebrows with prosthetic pieces.

I' ve tried to sell my little lot several times already, said Pidlum with a sickly smile.

Being "green around the gills" is looking pale and sickly.

Twenty-four hours later, as sickly Johnny Sylvester lay in his hospital room, Babe Ruth walked in.

But, those who be in a country is old young sickly " gens staying behind " , became however go out an anxiety of dozen of labour farmer.

Egyptians, barred by Moslem law from alcoholic refreshments, used to buy sickly sweet, dirty concoctions from street vendors.

That, in turn, could throw the global financial system into disarray, and further weaken America's sickly economy.

The animals that are in the supply chain are sickly, unhealthy, full of viruses and complications.

Most Jewish women of her age were sickly and weak.

"The German patient is on the road to recovery though he's still sickly, " said UniCredit economist Andreas Rees.

The patterns are repeated to exhaustion, in an orderly, sickly way.

More unusual here, and more troubling, are the sickly yellow bamboo stands and the exposed bed of the Lancang River.

The cloves and saccharine, themselves disgusting enough in their sickly way, could not disguise the flat oily smell.

The sickly sweet odor of rancid juice boxes, stacked in waist-high bales, made a visitor's eyes water.

Years and years later, older Francesca cares for sickly Richard. He lies in bed beside an array of medicines and tonics.

Ninthly, one should pour the cream off the milk before using it for tea. Milk that is too creamy always gives tea a sickly taste.

That's why we hear stories of children in orphanages who grow sickly and weak despite being adequately fed and clothed.

The happiness of life must be based on health and longevity. A sickly and short life can never be called a happy life.

A pale or sickly child is "green around the gills" .

cried she, and stretched her hands out over a little blue crocus, that hung quite sickly on one side.

Its economy is sickly. Its debt, due to surpass 160% of GDP in the months to come, is unsustainable.

The Bane Fire is a sickly greenish flame said to burn in the braziers of the Underworld.

FOR almost half a decade the world's big central banks have been energetic paramedics to their sickly economies.

I sympathize with the introvert as I would with the sickly, but both are missing a lot of life.

Thrift imposed by a sickly economy is probably the principal cause.

Healthy women have lustrous, shiny hair, whereas the hair of sickly people loses its luster.

However, this also is a sickly season, people always cold, runny nose, also break easily.

Inca Cola, Peru. A sickly sweet soft drink that tastes like Creaming Soda without the bubbles.

With Portugal's economy sickly, a stream of professionals has been heading south to the former colony.

Are we healthy? Do we need to win more Gold medals ? Remember not long ago, foreigners called Chinese the sickly of East Asia.

As a result, the yuan's trade-weighted value has been dragged down this year by the sickly dollar, while many other currencies have soared.

However, the economy continues to look sickly.

Two other big local industries, textiles and tobacco, are equally sickly.

In continental Europe personal debts are relatively low, but the banks look sickly.

But a nephew of the sickly leader is also a nominee.

An ancient-looking human, he had pale skin, and searing, sickly yellow eyes.

Paltrow plays a substitute teacher who takes over sickly Mr. Schuester's (Matthew Morrison) Spanish class and the Glee club.

The grass was paler than she remembered, a wan and sickly green on the verge of going yellow.

But few expected sickly Chrysler to survive in anything like its present form.

worse, worst In a sickly or unsound manner; not well.

She liked the smell of butter and eggs and grew to hate the sickly smell of cabbage soup.

Greece needs reform as surely as ouzo gives you a headache. Its economy is sickly.

Verse 147 Look at this dressed up body, a mass of sores, supported by bones, sickly , a subject of many thoughts of sensual desire.

A handful of aromas, whether sickly or sweet, can summarize a lifetime.

physically strong people get rich, and weak and sickly people get rich.

The rouble, a symbol of the Kremlin's power, is looking sickly.

The sources of demand that propelled the world into the boom have become sickly.

Let the sails be rags and the sailors infirm and sickly.

There's a old lady near the school. She's old and sickly. She cannot move easily. She get lonely.

The eurozone recovery could yet falter, or prove sickly.

He summoned up a sickly smile for camera.

Don't, and you're probably going to end up overweight and sickly.

The flowers gave off a heavy, sickly odor.

We fight against the idea of allowing even the most weak and sickly human perish and do everything we can to keep human beings alive.

Six silly sisters sell silk to six sickly senior citizens.

Six silly sisters sold silk to six sickly senior citizens.

Night turns to dawn's sickly half light and Mandalay begins to wake up.

Such is the sickly currency that Estonia is joining.

I am thin and sickly-looking, but I have the strength of a bull.

Not that sickly old widow in Westgate Buildings?

Th'uncertain sickly appetite to please.

Eg, He looked weak and sickly.

It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.

Eastern Europe, once a fast-growing market, is also sickly.

Sickly and ak as Grandma is. . . she has undertaken wist the housework in the folks.

Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly.

Production levels in some sectors will need to rise to fulfil even the current sickly demand.

Nature decides whether we are big or small, healthy or sickly.

Will he be strong or sickly, excitable or calm?

e. g. He is a sickly child and he looks sickly.

On Mar 9, 2006 the daffodils were replaced with the sickly plant, red and green potion bottles.

Most people in the West are currently overweight and very sickly.

Sickly and weak as Grandma is, she has taken on all the housework in the family.

Pale or sickly in appearance.

Another six small, sickly dogs roam the house.

He was a sickly man.

Why is the euro looking sickly?

The girl has been sickly from the cradle.

And although he appears to have beaten the cancer, he shocked investors last year by mounting a stage looking sickly and gaunt.

The little baby grew more and more sickly, until presently it died.

There are, in effect, two Spains, one vibrant and one sickly.

He has been sickly from birth.

Milk that is too creamy always gives tea a sickly taste.

He is a sickly child.

Green: Having a sickly or unhealthy pallor indicative of nausea or jealousy, for example.

Anyone who is too short, too thin or too sickly will also have to seek alternative transport.

Sweet But not sickly foods are more and more welcome to consumers.

Edgar returns with Linton who is a weak and sickly boy.

I like her appearance, ' said Elizabeth, struck with other ideas. 'She looks sickly and cross.

I like super women physically strong and masterful. I like them very white sickly almost blue.

he did not answer ; and , sickly white , she jumped up

The sickly sentimentality of a romantic novel

he had an ugly , sickly , witty , charming face

The two men turned quickly, and saw the sickly countenance of La Carconte peering between the baluster rails;

no , he ' s just sickly . he nearly died as a baby

So cold so sickly twisted beautiful

Chapter 19: (XIX) A Sickly Child

And you'll see the sickly hands of time