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Nay, more, has it not happened to some here to clergyman, lawyer, physician, perhaps, alas! to some pure-minded, noble- hearted woman to be brought in contact perforce with that which truly sickens them with some case of human folly, baseness, foulness which, however much their soul revolts from it, they must handle, they must toil over many weeks and months, in hope that that which is crooked may be made somewhat straight, till their whole soul was distempered, all but degraded, by the continual sight of sin, till their eyes seemed full of nothing but the dance of death, and their ears of the gibbering of madmen, and their nostrils with the odours of the charnel house, and they longed for one breath of pure air, one gleam of pure light, one strain of pure music, to wash their spirits clean from those foul elements into which their duty had thrust them down perforce?
The heart sickens over the delusions of the recent campaign and turns achingly to the unconsidered whole question." The committee answered: "We put all New York into your control and want your name to all letters and your hand in all arrangements. We like your form of posters; by all means let 'No Union with Slaveholders' be conspicuous upon them." An extract from a letter received from Mr.
If her child sickens of the measles just as she is starting for her bivouac in Norway, or a course of dinners in the Palais Royal, her duty is to call in the doctor and go. Weeks afterwards you will find the little darling picking up flesh, in mamma's absence, at some obscure watering-place.
There be times when I look back at the old free life of peril and adventure, and my soul sickens at the weary round I see day by day. Who knows but the time may come when I will break these gossamer bonds! Ah, I might do worse I might do worse ere my youth and courage are fooled and squandered away."
But the Lorrainers, the remainder of the French troops, the Walloons, and especially the Hungarians whose countrymen and women had been sold into captivity all vied with each other in the invention of cruelties at which the soul sickens, and which the pen almost refuses to depict.
The Hindoo will not touch a dead carcase, so that when a bullock mysteriously sickens and dies, the Chumars haul away the body, and appropriate the skin. Some luckless witch is blamed for the misfortune, when the rascally Chumars themselves are all the while the real culprits. The police, however, are pretty successful in detecting this crime, and it is not now of such frequent occurrence .
You'll make the aristo think that we are afraid." "Well?" queried Rateau blandly. "Aren't you?" "No!" replied Merri fiercely. "I'll go now because ... because ... well! because I have had enough to-day. And the wench sickens me. I wish to serve the Republic by marrying her, but just now I feel as if I should never really want her. So I'll go!
I wouldn't mind anything but that darling dad of Jane's. The thought sickens me," and the bobbed head drooped dejectedly. "But I am more at fault than you," sobbed Sally. "I feel like running away from everything." "So do I, but we neither will do it. That's the trouble with reformation. I told you I should hate to be reformed it tags on so many responsibilities. But we are both in for it.
"I know," was all he replied, but the words were final, somehow. They thrust her back, roughly, from any share in his thoughts. They ate again in silence. "Miriam would have helped," she forgot herself and argued aloud once. "She would not have failed. But blood sickens me, I think."
Italy charmed him wholly, and he longed to make it his home. There had not been want of unjust criticism of him in America, while at Liverpool. When some shipwrecked steamer passengers were thrown upon his hands, for whom he provided extra-officially, on Mr. Hawthorne would do nothing for them until ordered to by Mr. Buchanan. "It sickens me," he wrote at that time, "to look back to America.
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