Benko had achieved the “better” of it and years later would confess: “I am sorry that I beat up Bobby. He was a sick man, even then.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No one answered, which was weird, since you’d stayed home sick that day. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The illness or injury that must be “worked through,” with gritted teeth, because there’s no sick pay or health insurance and the loss of one day’s pay will mean no groceries for the next. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because everything makes Mom feel sick: Reading in the car. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dex, who brought the deserter in, slips away quietly, his darkly handsome face slightly sick. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was going to be sick to my stomach. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“What are you looking so sick about?” he went on. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too sick to work, he was forced to go home to his mother for nursing. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the clumsiest hunting dog of Old Tallow’s pack, he needed to stand tall over something, even if only a sick little girl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was in my room after lunch, reading James chapter five because I would talk about the biblical roots of the anointing of the sick during family time, when I heard the sounds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Davy baked and left cookies on my bed, and she always monitored my health and mothered me with homemade soup when I was sick. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

From every side they came and sought the pit with rustling cries; and I grew sick with fear. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kev”—he jumped out of the way of some girl who might have been about to sneeze—“remember how we talked about how my cardio program will keep me from getting sick?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sick bus growled past and made the air taste of pencils. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could not erase visions of the sick and dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered his father rubbing his back one time when he had gotten sick. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nobody peeked their head in the door to see if I was absent or sick or maybe having a convulsion in the middle of the floor. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Miss Taylor is out sick with the flu, so today I’m going to be your teacher.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was gonna tell ’bout a father getting sick or a brother getting whupped bad or a mother’s children getting sold away. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was sick and tired of finding himself in this position—scared and hurt and abandoned and endlessly asking himself why. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mollie noted that she was no longer so sick. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Thomas tried not to think about it and pointed up the stairs, from where the moans of the sick kid echoed through the building. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even the big man had emerged, pale and green- sick and unsteady on his feet, struggling up from the depths of the ship’s hold to pay his last respects. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of Helena sick in a strange room in an unfamiliar city. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hermione’s eyes were huge in the firelight; Ron looked slightly sick. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He traveled alone, because his younger brother was too sick with malaria to go along. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel sick, though, I just felt strange, and I didn’t know how to explain it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Between the snow and the near-darkness and my own sick stumbling, I hadn’t seen it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had decided that he was no longer sick, so he was sitting in a chair in the living room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

First and second periods seem to drag on forever, and at break I seriously consider going home “sick.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A sick feeling grips my stomach and twists. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I felt my heart limping in my chest, and was revolted by it, a pitiful muscle, sick and bloody, pulsing against my ribs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt looked unconvinced, but he was too sick to argue. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I felt like hell warmed over, stupid and faintly sick and absolutely famished, and I think I probably wouldn’t have cared if the old woman who lived there had turned me over to the police. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You hated it too! You were sick—I saw you!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I always told people she was “tired,” not “sick.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I been sick,” Bigger said, knowing that he had to explain why he had not spoken or eaten in three days. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The world is sometimes just, and I spent the next eighteen months sick in bed with a mysterious illness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could remember being cold and hungry and afraid, but never sick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes and if he hadn't I wouldn’t have met you. I’m not unfaithful, darling. I’ve plenty of faults but I’m very faithful. You’ll be sick of me I’ll be so faithful.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After Mother took my temperature, she said she was going to bed for a while but to wake her if I felt sicker. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After much discussion, we conclude that we are not so much sick as weak from starvation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she awoke, she was in the back of a bouncing truck with several other sick people, all moaning. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta’s bleeding stopped, and if she felt sick from the treatments, she never mentioned it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then you’ll wake up in the morning very sick, and a doctor will say you have typhoid or malaria, but in fact the problem will be more complex. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to the side of the court, it was halftime and I felt really sick. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

By that time I’m so sick and tired of their remarks that I race to the bathroom and restore my hair to its normal mass of curls. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My heart gave a sick lurch when I looked to Sohrab’s bed and found it empty. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A local doctor said, “I couldn’t begin to remember how many sick people have received medical attention at his expense, nor how many hungry mouths have tasted of his bounty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here? I thought your parents didn’t trust doctors. Are you sick?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Because I know when my mom was sick, we...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I worried she was making herself sick from being so depressed, and so alone. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Their commander was a middle-aged corporal—red-eyed, scrawny, tough as dried beef, sick of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up early, feeling very cheerful, thinking that there was someone to talk to even if he was sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was the food Uhmma fed us when we were sick. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Finally I get sick of looking and decide I’ll row up the creek to Mr. Woodwell’s place and see if he has any ideas on the subject. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had to walk down the road a ways to get to our nearest neighbor, but if somebody got sick, or was in need of a hand, folks were there to help ’fore you knew it. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But you got sick. Do you have that fear?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I heard you was sick. Anything I can do for you?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Black hold, the detonations fierce, floor puddled with wet sick; heaving; victory blotched by fog and rain, the wind meddling, ships luffing, stoving up as if careened; and I below. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Beneath that amazingly capable, resilient shell I knew she was reeling, completely sick inside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another mother, Belinda Caceres, twenty-nine, prays that her children, ages twelve, nine, and two, will have enough to eat and will not get sick while she is gone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what made him open Dallas’s door and say, “Hurry! Come with me,” and then lead a sleepy Dallas to the sick boy’s room. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t be worth it. Whatever. I’m sick of herps. Let’s get espresso.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

People offer it when someone is really sick or your pet dies. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But as sick and blind as she was, I think I could have stood out in the broad open without her ever seeing me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got sick of himself, Park went to her old house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But when he was at Yale I didn’t have to worry about him all the time—worry that he’d be shot or get sick and die or something else. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Hodgkin’s Disease can go into remission. That means I’ll still have it, but I won’t be sick. Right now, I’m holding my own.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I half expected Hilda to turn on me and say, "You sound sick," but she only extended and then retracted her swanny neck. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then, on a hospital plane full of UN workers and sick white people, we were transported through a long thrumming darkness, in which we slept the sleep of the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. You’re getting my friends to gossip about each other. This isn’t about the film at all, Twinkle. This is about some sick part of you wanting revenge for feeling like—like you do.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon the sick child got to play many games of backgammon with Papa, or hear stories read by Mama or Papa. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Troop ships returning from France and Belgium are reporting to sick bay at the Commonwealth Pier in Boston with the usual symptoms of the grippe. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So, later, when we were lying in bed, I was so frustrated and sick of the silence that I actually broke down and started talking to Chas Becker. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d been too sick to go to school for most of that year. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I laid down, whilst I waited his leisure to attend to me, for I felt faint and a little sick. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Pa said it’d make me sick, but it didn’t I chawed on that like a man, Pa said. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No—no—please—as you were. With only two men for each officer, and all the men sick, I think we can do without the usual pageantry between officers and men.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sin, sin, I felt drenched and sick of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I got sick instead of Mama and Daddy both. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, I am sick, my body fighting the effects of the fruit and the poisons I am forcing down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Thought maybe you were sick and weren’t coming today,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They viewed the killing of children, sick people and the elderly as many people today view abortion and euthanasia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those nursing the sick also tried to keep the patient comfortable, which wasn’t very easy, with all of that purging. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My real fear,” Scottie gasped, giving the crank a turn, “is not of heights”—another turn—“but of being sick.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a version of my life where I’m sick after all. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, God, Phoebe, don't ask me. I'm sick of everybody asking me that," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The first time he tried to smoke it made him sick, but he persevered, and spun the packet out for a long time, smoking half a cigarette after each meal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It makes me feel mighty sick to my stomach.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A strong whiff of something burnt stung his nostrils; a sick mixture of overheated engines and charred flesh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But then Nan got sick and Mom didn’t have time to study. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Gramps said he followed her like a sick, old dog for twenty-two days, and on the twenty-third day, he marched up to her father and asked if he could marry her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

So many people with problems and hurting, sick family members. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really am. He’s never, ever sick, so...” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Against the doc’s advice, Captain Cat insisted on eating dinner in the great cabin that night, though her man Harye was still laid up in the sick bay. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But when my father came home that night, he looked too sick to go anywhere. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a special feeling for sick people and cripples. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Calista asked when she was showing me some more art tricks on Thursday, after we both got sick of studying spelling flash cards. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look for Mother—not once!—and she obeyed Sister Gladys in such stony silence that the nurse asked if she felt sick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just had a wonderful meal of eight fat ladies. If you eat me too, you’ll get sick. You want to go back to sleep, to sleep off your big meal.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, yes, it made them happy and it made me sick. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt sick at myself, sick and disgusted. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tethered to the ground, on guard, with a very sick person to take care of. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After all this time it could make me sick. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kindness like that is the daffodils of the world, the dewdrops, the grass stains on the knees of jeans, yet she is sick to death of being a sweetheart. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was sick and tired of anything to do with that word. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lynn got better and didn’t get sick again for so long that I figured everything was fine. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Not long before she took sick, she told me how happy she was about you gettin’ this nice trip.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"The frightened, the weak, and the sick. And we who swore. We remain." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe she’d had a heart attack or a stroke, it wasn’t out of the question, though she hadn’t been sick that I knew of. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s probably just a sick joke, but what if there’s more to it than that? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Toad was definitely sick, and he was standing just a few feet from their camp. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was too weak to stand up and too sick to care about the water Piper brought him. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crack was like being sick, like having AIDS. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought of leaving my mother and going to school a warm, sick feeling came to my stomach. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angela had stayed home sick, apparently something she did at least five days a month, the maximum number of days you can be out before they make you repeat the semester. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The Daughters and Otis arrived at noon, lugging in all manner of potluck dishes, as if we hadn’t eaten ourselves sick the night before. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stopped reading the letter because I felt sick. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cram both hands over my mouth as if I’m about to be sick, drop to my knees, the laughter boiling like lava in my throat. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his crotch with a sinking, sick sensation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You know Granny’s sick and you better keep quiet!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the Fin Chaser owner were really tight until Mom got sick and Dad quit working. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d gone crazy and killed himself, I thought-—gotten so sick of this cheerful but futureless eternity that he’d guzzled rat poison or taken a dive off a cliff. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

However, it was a fact that not once in all the years of school were Katie’s children ever sick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sign of faith wasn’t that the snakes never bit you—it was that as sick as you became, you didn’t die from it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“George is sick,” Dari said, referring to his usual lab partner. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The doctor had given him a shot when he was sick and he’d hated it! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns his head to look at me and I can see him trying to come to terms with just how sick I am. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure? I don’t want you to get sick or—” Annie stopped herself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was a little child then, too little to understand how sick my sister was. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not have any more nightmares, but I always woke confused, thinking I was surrounded by people I knew, instead of sick strangers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I work with Mala. She asked me to come. Why am I so sick?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how she could be so right and so wrong at the same time—because of course I wasn’t getting sick of her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If you got sick, God help you because you just died. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My father would not have given the defense of River-run over to Edmure unless he was very sick," she said, worried. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, stop that,” Ron begged her, “I feel sick enough as it is — quick, hide me!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Man, I’m getting sick of getting jerked around by those jokers!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Eden always gets sick, you know," I say after a while. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“And I get sick a lot,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dad spent two weeks in bed, and it was the first time any of us remembered his being sick. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched, the Nazis walked up behind the sick people from the hospital and started to shoot. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You was really sick when you got back home.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flying in a plane just makes some people sick. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tell his mother he was sick, but there was noise rising up into his room, noise that had nothing to do with his grandfather’s roaming spirit. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Then how would you prove your theory that Sir Fig Newton is sick?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My father went to the sheriff and accused Tenorio, but he had only the word of a small, sick boy to back his accusation. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been too sick and too afraid. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m locked in. And I’m sick. I’m really sick, Luke. I need you. To come over here.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her charisma and passion roused the workers, as she cared for the sick and helped mothers in childbirth. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember a whole lot from when she first got sick, but I do remember that she’d always go off to her room. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Poor Mamá. She must be worried sick about us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A sick feeling fills me as I crouch down beside her and turn her over. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“One night, she took a tumble out of bed, probably she needed the bedpan, but then after she fell, she couldn’t get herself up. She was too weak, too sick.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This day, the first smallpox sores appear upon the sick. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A cow also knows there are things in the pasture to avoid, plants that will make her sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now that you’ve helped me prove that Fig’s really sick,” I said, “will you help me snap Dad out of his funk?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She feels sick about The Taker grabbing her at school, sick about shaking him off like that. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"It made my husband and me sick as well," said Mrs. Ten-nyson, "but it nearly killed Becca, what with her being so young. Sam saved her life." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Not everything in the world is about you, Auggie! Now hurry up. Daisy’s sick. Mom’s taking her to the emergency vet. Come say goodbye.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“They cannot leave the sick,” said I, “to fend.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Chuck Muckle thundered: “Is this somebody’s idea of a sick joke?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's a social worker, and all that really means is that she takes care of mentally sick people. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Christy said she felt sick and begged to see the nurse. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t felt so vulnerable since the day Miig had found me, half dead, sick from spoiled supplements, hallucinating. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I have heard quite enough on this topic already today, I am sick to death of it! Let us not have any of these upsetting stories, if you please!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until my aunt Corrine flew in from Maryland a few months later that I realized Grandma Caye was sicker than I knew. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The ward was filled with children who were sick and unable to walk or perform basic activities, like playing with toys. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My big son, sick with the throat cancer. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally Momma got sick of having slob all over her hand and gave up. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nonnegotiable. Now let’s discuss the end of last semester. You missed four, almost five, weeks of school. Your mother says you were sick with the flu.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She says she feels sick to her stomach just thinking about putting her dissecting knife through its skin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Betita, who had never been sick a day in her life, died in 1963, on November 22, on the same day as President Kennedy, but not from a bullet in the head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effort of trying to keep himself together was making him sick to his stomach. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking of all the times I left Evie alone with her, and it made me sick. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

During his childhood he was always sick, he couldn’t work like other boys his age. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt sick and glittery, droopy and elated. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I decided to tell Marisol something about a sick relative, about how we had to go take care of him, and how it was an all-of-a-sudden kind of thing. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I feel a little sick to my stomach, in a way that is both nice and not. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I feel a deep connection or anything to him already, but the idea of watching anyone die makes me sick and sad and angry—and that’s why he’s asking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now he knows about being sick, and he knows about why he stopped coming. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All those reporting on a sick call with temperatures of exactly 102 were asked to return in an hour to have their temperatures taken again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I'm not too crazy about sick people, anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I ended up feeling really sick on competition day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For one thing, as I said, if he was going to be sick, he ought to build up his strength. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Do you know if Gram was ever sick as a child?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They suck blood from the sick and...pass on some of that blood when they bite a healthy person. Like a mad dog that bites a man and drives the man mad.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They knew what sick and foolish soldiers they themselves appeared to be. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imre’s population griped about unnatural arts being practiced two miles away, but when an aqueduct collapsed or someone fell suddenly sick, they were quick to call on engineers and doctors trained at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to be as still as possible so I wouldn’t be sick or nothin’. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I looked straight ahead at Renee and the other customers who were also grossed out, while Mr. Ray focused on the sick kid, who I could hear heaving. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t able to protect Mother and Ruth May from getting sick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the best, they told him; some men didn’t like to feel the quiver of the man they were killing; some men got sick when they smelled the blood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They looked scared, and my father looked sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mom won’t mind. And Rocket stays in the house, so it’s not like he’d come out and make you sick. Because of your allergy.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Howard Clement angrily responded that he was sick and tired of hearing whites “repeating this thing that we’re all alike!” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was sick and discouraged, not angry at them or at anybody. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm sick of Paris, and I'm sick of the Quarter." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were on the way home when Tisquantum suddenly became sick. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I remember how sick I was the day Peeta and I accepted congratulations there for winning the Games. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She was to tell her that Venus really needed it, she was so worn-out from nursing her sick son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a sick feeling in his stomach. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll say I’m sick, stay in bed and read a few books. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Olivia gets sick from, the food prepared by any of the chief’s wives. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spasm of the stomach muscles began, and the baby was very sick. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

These kids might not have made it to Mexico, but they had come a long way and stayed out overnight, and someone somewhere must be worried sick about them. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she’s sick, all right. I better get some more of the neighbors.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m paying back a bit of debt. My wife fell sick, and we had to pay the doctor and buy medicine.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The blaring horns hurt my ears, and the fumes from the cars make me feel sick. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

If people have cancer, shouldn’t they seem sick? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I’m sick of pushing stuff on him that he don’t want pushed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I was sick and I know that’s no excuse, but I was feeling real poor and...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And if you breathe in enough of it, it can make you sick. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Young man, I think you’re drunk or sick. Go home and get some sleep. It’s after midnight.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Southern Negroes used that term to mean sensitive and tended to look upon a person with that affliction as being a little sick or in delicate health. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get sick as soon as they start to buzz and bite. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Not quite, but I’m going down to see the donkey by the road. I think he’s hurt or sick.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise raised her hands and her voice: “What the hell am I to think? It made me sick, Uncle Jack. Plain-out sick—” Her uncle scratched his ear. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak apples, like robins’ pincushions on the wild rose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As sure as anger rose up in me, a sick feeling took it sliding back down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was feeling sick to my stomach again and my head felt like it was splitting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although White had received reports that she was sick with diabetes, he was suspicious. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the sick were dead and die healthy ones were sick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Stolid Strauss—unmovable. I’ll tell you something. I’m sick and tired of coming here. What’s the sense of therapy any more? You know as well as I do what’s going to happen.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When we stopped for a bite of food at midday, I felt sick and cold, and could not eat. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was shiny with sweat and she seemed to be concentrating deeply, but she wasn’t sick. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tally thought fast “Sure. But I guess I didn’t really eat three meals every day, Croy. Like I said, I was pretty sick of SpagBol after a while.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Smallpox has an incubation period of about twelve days, during which time sufferers, who may not know they are sick, can infect anyone they meet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It lights up and I can feel the adrenaline in my blood, it’s making me dizzy, a little bit sick, and it’s making me buzz, as though I’m high. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That left a sick lump in Mark’s stomach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If you become sick yourself, don’t waste your vomit by sending it overboard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One spring, she just stopped coming to school as much, and in the fall, she didn’t come back. We were told she was too sick to do much besides stay in Morning Glory Cottage.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It became a sick sort of game, imagining ways to kill myself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Thomas turned away to stare into the forest where the sick boy had attacked him just the night before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even if you did it with the conscious goal of getting yourself away from the general population, you really did have to be sick to drink paint or swallow shards of floor tile. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke on the phone a few times; he told me his brother was sick again and might have to spend some time in a hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The water here is tainted. What’s the point of having all of this junk if you’re just going to get sick like the rest of them?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We fly people in all the time. A guitar player gets sick or something.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

That she was sick of Nana twisting the truths of their life and making her, Mariam, another of her grievances against the world. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He is asleep, most of the time at least, and so sick he cannot get up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Holtons had been there when their children were sick; had comforted them when these illnesses proved mortal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We do not have time for you to be sick,” Glerk said, looking back. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The others stood by in silence, but the longer Chubs spoke, the clearer their eyes became; Mike, in particular, shook off Clancy’s influence with a look like he was about to be sick. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The whole scene with Joey flashed back into my mind; I started to feel sick I looked over at the patio doors. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's eleven more of them out there in that box. I suppose they thought it'd give you something to read while you were sick." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Because the girl’s face twisted, and she was on all fours then saying she was going to be sick. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He knew this wasn’t how a traditional brother treated his sister, but he was thoroughly sick of village ways. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, Stan’s body had been removed, but still, I felt sick just looking at the whole scene. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It made me sick to look at it.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One went outside and chewed a little grass like a sick dog, he said to keep it from killing him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was a sign that she wasn’t sick at the sight of a little blood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not like he’s sick or had an accident. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the very last day of October, a huge white flag was hoisted at Bush Hill that proclaimed: no more sick persons here. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

As a certified nursing assistant, or a CNA for short, she figured there’d never be a shortage of sick folks needing assistance. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“They never scold him. They let him have his way because he is their only son and he is so sick.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I did well, why do I feel sick to my stomach? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her fear of me makes me sick to my stomach. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And whenever people got sick, they would go see Doc Hawthorn. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There is the same shame, the sick feeling in my body, the same knowledge of my own wrongness, awkwardness, weakness; the same wish to be loved; the same loneliness; the same fear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Please comrade,” she begged, thinking of Geak, “have mercy, I have a young, sick daughter.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, the heat aggravated her crippling sick headaches, and she had to resort to a big spoonful of Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, known to be the Best Blood Purifier for Women. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. Don’t listen to me. I’m drunk, I’m sick, I didn’t mean it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now in America, he was safe, a success even; his Centro de Medicina in the Bronx was thronged with the sick and the homesick yearning to go home again. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes someone who wasn’t sick brought her food and water. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Other people came in with their sick animals—a dog that had swallowed a corncob, a lethargic cat, a puppy that refused to eat. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the time I wasn’t even aware I was sick: any symptom, any fever or pain, was drowned by the clamor of my more immediate miseries. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She stopped, sick with apprehension, hoping he would not turn just yet until she had gathered her nerves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Republican press denounced his warnings against political divisions at home and diplomatic involvement abroad as “the loathings of a sick mind.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Zahra sends him an email full of Twitter threads about him and Nora that night when he’s in bed, and he feels sick. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already told you. I could see you did not want to go. Oh, do let’s have an end to it. I’m sick to death of the subject.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing what had happened to Emmett chilled me to the bone, and I would have been sick if I hadn’t seen the look on Mr. Breland’s face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Pa cannot get off work to go see Keav, and we do not know how sick she is. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Julie must have a strong immunity if she was with you all that time and never got sick. How can we do this, Father?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He loved El Patron, and the old man would want to see him if he was very sick. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a crabby laugh, I let him lie, kind heaven’s merciful bounty to some sick fox. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tom,” she said, “I’m sorry. But I’m awfully sick, Tom. I’m terribly sick.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it looked as though no Philippine monkey workers had become sick either. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel sick inside, like I could maybe throw up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, there was this sick trickle of curiosity pumping through me, the same stuff that has everyone rubbernecking at a crash site or devouring the details of the latest, greatest murder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Back then, many superstitious people believed that you got sick because of evil spirits,” Grandpa says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“A ship might sink, and you would definitely feel sick on a ship,” Papa Andrew said. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning she woke up coughing, eyes watering, feeling sick, hot, utterly miserable. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying down on top of the boxes, too sick to sit up. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"I thought he was going to be sick." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, since you haven’t heard it, let me tell you. Eva’s real sick. I had her put where she could be watched and taken care of.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard that his wife was very sick, might not live to see her husband elected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sank back into the seat, feeling sick to my stomach. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“No, he isn’t very sick. In fact, he isn’t sick at alL” “That’s good.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The man turned to the waiting room and saw what he’d missed before: there were no gurneys rolling through to the ER, no sick and wounded in pain. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I made sure that sick boys got medical attention and oversaw the distribution of food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt hollow and sick in my stomach and chest from the effort, and I held to the branches and waited. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Only because you were sick as a sissy,” she replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Avery down the street kept saying, “Now don’t y’all git your hopes up too much. I seen it many a time—a sick person gits better just fore they go’n die.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then I crawled through the window after him, because the thought of Frankie being out of sight made me sick to my stomach. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t want it, I’m afraid I might get sick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the sensation became so powerful that Sheed thought he might be sick, it stopped and they were on the stage again. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You could have drowned! Or gotten really sick—there’s all sorts of bacteria in lakes—or...” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But I knew the pills would make me sick again. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t exactly want to. My mother chose it. I’ve been sick and...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But then he caught himself and looked me up and down, and said, “You don’t look sick.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Why couldn't I have been sick and needed her to stay home with me? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Aurelio is out sick today, so you’ve been promoted from junior dishwasher to assistant prep kitchen dishwasher. Think you can handle it?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe they thought her strange or sick or even crazy, but she was none of that. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping into bed that night, I felt sick. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You sick, man,” Leon called over his shoulder. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone falls sick, a shaman can contact the spirit that caused the sickness and try to pacify it or scare it away. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should I lie and tell her I was sick or should I tell her I hate school and I was ditching? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My brother was really sick, so sick that they had to stick a needle in him to take out the marrow from his bones. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in charge of our wagon called out to a German officer strolling down the platform, asking him to have the sick woman moved to a hospital car. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might have been sick of mangled meat loaf and puked-up sloppy joes, but Dad’s guilt was not the way I wanted to get edible food back in my life. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When my parents sent me away this summer, I shut down all my sadness about Nan being sick, about missing home and Justin. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The world was sick, life was difficult and here there seemed new hope, here there seemed to be a message, comforting, mild, full of fine promises. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed it and hugged it until Mom said, “Craig, stop that. That’s very sick. How about you call your friends?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And three,” I concluded, “Sir Fig Newton is sick.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My stomach turned over like I might be sick, but I wasn’t. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My stomach rolled over and I felt sick. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of all these Hamptons people. You guys are—I forget the word in English.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was because Ultima was a curandera, a woman who knew the herbs and remedies of the ancients, a miracle-worker who could heal the sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am, there’s just five of’em, a man, a woman, a girl, a boy, and a sick baby.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Papa has some private students but only plays in the orchestra if someone's sick. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All of them were together except Hazel, who had not come home from work, and Etta, who still lay sick in bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My belly rumbles, sick on their sour meat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We aren't allowed to say I hate or I could die or You make me sick. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I saw Robert come across the lawn I knew it was the telephone and I felt physically sick. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"The northmen—" He felt a sudden sick sense of dread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas watched in sick fascination as the Griever twitched uncontrollably, spewing the yellow oil in every direction. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If taking care of the poor and the sick meant sacrificing time with his family, it was a price he had to pay. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The benches in the hall were always full of sick and patient Negroes who waited for him, and sometimes even the front porch and his bedroom would be crowded. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For a while as I cried I hated my parents, as if it were their fault that Lynn was sick. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kit felt a wave of fear that left her sick and dizzy. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Then Mohammed came to me. He knew I was sick, and he told me to hang on, hang on and wait, because you were coming to save us." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At every meal she would beseech him not to be selfish and to remember that his little sister was sick and also needed food, but it was no use. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But as she was going up and down, up and down, she was mostly focusing on not being sick all over the king’s head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Little Brother, are you all right? You look like you’re going to be sick.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Like all sick children,” he answered dispassionately, “you say you don’t want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Once again the carts carried the sick to Bush Hill, and the white flag of victory had to be hauled down. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I still felt kind of sick when I thought about being naked again, but the worst had already happened, and I knew Sohrab would stick up for me if it came to it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Last year when Ma’s appendix broke, when her sick leave was gone, we got bread, peanut butter, and applesauce. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Claire gets sick in the middle of a crowded restaurant, yet I'm the one everybody looks at sideways. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough that the great city of San Francisco should suffer the indignity of a maximum security federal penitentiary in its midst without being subject to these sorts of sick and dangerous shenanigans. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later they would realize that they should have packed up the family and left, but they couldn’t have moved Etty, anyway; she was too sick. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of Indian guys who treat white women like bowling trophies. Get a life.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I couldn’t stand it any more, I fumbled around the side of the mattress where I stored that Gatorade bottle Joey brought me when I was sick. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t get sick. Someone”—Iran cleared her throat and went on huskily—“someone came here, got the goat out of its cage, and dragged it to the edge of the roof.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had never seen him lying down, and the idea of him lying sick was like a wave of blackness over her mind. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

At first I felt sick and couldn’t look at his eyes. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re tired. You’re angry. Elias, you need rest. The Trials—” She tries to put her hand on my shoulder, but I shake her off, sick at her touch. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At first a response won’t come, since words like better and sick are still stuck in his head, but eventually, Axel is able to say four words. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I feel sick to my stomach, useless, the remaining snow dripping from my glove into a puddle on the floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you, it makes me sick but it doesn’t frighten me,” she said, pleased, and turned to Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, but Tamika is a super pest. Just tell her...tell her I’m sick. Pretty please? With sprinkles and gummy bears on top?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Nacho Crunch. Tamika’s really sick. What did you put in it?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yet the expressions on the faces of the sick were not sad. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem as if the camp could possibly hold any more, but still they kept coming: long lines of people, some emaciated, some hurt or sick, all exhausted. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were they doing now, I brooded, suddenly sick for home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he told the truth, nobody believed him; and if he was silent—which he found himself becoming more and more—they thought he was sick. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He might have heard the kids were sick from anybody, but her first thought was that he must have seen Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems like we all are becoming sick in the Fourth World.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Their faces were brick red and they sat very rigid trying not to be sick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt sick at the thought of those men—first dying in such a horrible way, and then having even their corpses ravaged. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the divinity from the foreman’s wife that made him sick. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t get sick of his theory, though. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he got sick of the game eventually and went away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And lately, we hear more and more frightening stories of people from America getting sick or robbed while visiting. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Rats presented with solutions of pure sugar or tubs of pure lard will gorge themselves sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And I felt a sudden, sick feeling settle in my gut. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That yellow poison is what made him sick.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, of course not! It’s his idea of a sick, twisted joke! And he’s coming for us. For me. And he’s bringing the Maafa with him.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“When I first saw you,” I said, “in the tent, you called me Edward. Is something wrong? Are you sick?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, the day after that, Jinny got so sick of the shouting and moaning and the tiny fingernails scraping her skin, she marched out of the water almost immediately, with Ess clinging to her neck. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally he says, “This thing that happened at school, with your friend Imani, makes me sick to my stomach.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He dreaded the sick silence between his sentences. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pa should tell the mosquitoes to watch what they eat for they are the wicked things that make us sick. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and see her before she got sick: rich, flame-colored hair; skin like dove feathers; bright emerald eyes; a tiny, mischievous smile. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She got sick of hearing what would happen when his ship came in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But very sick. They say she hasn’t long to live.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t eaten at our house since before Granny took sick, and Grandpa hadn’t been there for a meal since they got married. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He used to get sick quite a lot back at home. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I felt sick in the night and in the morning after breakfast I was nauseated. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many had feared Farmer would be criticized for going to costly extremes to save one particular life, and that parents would besiege Zanmi Lasante with demands that their sick children be flown to Boston. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"Thanks for the advice. Also, I feel a bit sick." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There are soldiers by the camp of the sick who question closely as to whether we have previously suffered the smallpox. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Twice I made myself so sick in anticipation of it that my mother kept me home because she thought I had contracted the flu. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I even wanted to say how sorry I was that I’d lied about being sick and refused his call. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She told them I was sick and that I needed rest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she cared, but it had been less than a day and I was already sick of people looking at me with doleful eyes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But when it came time to gather in formation, one of those women said she was sick and she would not march at all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She said, “Sir, my baby! My baby girl sick!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if I have headaches or Mirren is sick. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t understand this because I’m sure angels would never leave a sick baby on the seventh step.There’s no use asking Dad or Mam about this. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine keeping your sick mother in a bed right smack in the middle sorry. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Jay first got sick, she would disappear into her room for days on end. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’d be lying if I said the mere thought of what could be said at that table right now doesn’t make me feel sick. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Henry Deforest took on the formidable task of providing food for the city; Samuel Benge took charge of carrying the sick to Bush Hill and seeing that the dead were properly buried. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I am sick at heart, but cannot carry the world against the wish and will of our best friends.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Alex stared after her, a sick feeling growing in his stomach. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Three nights he spent on the nameless isle, for the first morning when he woke he was sore in every muscle and feverish and sick. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel sick to my stomach when innocent people die,” I said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s got a sick mother at home like Miss Stewart, the typing teacher. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The remaining camaradas who weren’t sick were tasked with chopping down some trees to make spare paddles—also at Roosevelt’s insistence. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was he who preached on Pentecost Sundays, and led revivals in the summertime, and anointed and healed the sick. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Flagg would see that I was fed, and I could help care for the sick. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of walking. What do you say we let Hugo take us to our next stop?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Get it out, baby,” my mother said, explaining to Spoony that I had been sick all day, like that was any of his business. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And then let’s get the hell out of here. I’m sick of this monkey suit.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t some terrible montage of baby movies and news footage, is it? Come on, guys. I’m not exactly Elena with a sick father.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to, but since Mameh was sick, I needed to go back. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” Farmer replied, “but why do you qualify my talk as provocative? I just said we should treat sick people, if we have the technology.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Wes’s aunt Nicey has been working for the State of Maryland doing home visits for the elderly, sick, and shut-in for a decade. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“They left you because they thought you might be sick? Like the others?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the thundery twilight, Blackavar looked more sick and dejected than ever. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything came back to his sick body, which shrank trembling from the smallest pain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I know he is dead sick with worry about her too and was being brave to make me brave, so I nodded. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Donay tells me that at the end of the last zafra, the central boss did tell all of the workers who were old or sick they must return to Haiti. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was sick,” I say and shame starts to cloud my Noise like a slow fog. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was so hot, tired, hungry, and sick that I was unsure of whether to cry in self-pity or laugh in celebration of our arrival. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was sick like me, only old, so her sickness was different. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would take one look at the daughter-in-law who answered the door at the sick house and she’d say, “Find another doctor.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t tell me that if she knew how sick he was, she wouldn’t be over at the hospital in five minutes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I...I’ve been sick for many years now. For humans, it would be about thirty years.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It sort of makes me feel sick that she only went over to the basketball courts, like she thinks Black students are the problem. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This thought made Gareth feel sick, and, as he was also feeling ashamed of himself for running away from tire gralloch, he became uncomfortable all over. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take that Scott up to Mother’s, and tell him I’m away, sick, dead, anything. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But like when it’s about somebody being sick and stuff it’s even worse. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

After all, how could a thing as tiny as a mosquito make anybody sick? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear that Day’s sick brother, the little one, tried to spit on Commander Jameson yesterday? Tried to infect her with whatever mutated plague he’s carrying?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

One hot summer day when Popo was already very sick, we stood outside watching a village funeral procession marching by our courtyard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My point is that I don’t think I’m sick. Especially since it acted so quickly on everyone who was.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t talk myself out of it this time. I’m sick of pretending everything. For once I’d like to have it real—just for once.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat was stringy, but so rich he thought | he might be sick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Those cookies are like one of the only things she knows how to make, so she bakes them all the time. I’m pretty sick of them.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“But he’ll cry himself sick,” pleaded Meg, reproaching herself for deserting her boy. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so sick of talking about it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mother always said “Two pounds is a good night’s work if you can start early and there ain’t a sick child to rock.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay beneath him, half conscious from the blows, and sick. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had come away from Vietnam sick to death of being lied to by American officials. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He even sat with those who weren’t sick, only sad, broken-hearted, or lost. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Emilia had been sick through most of the boat trip, but insisted she was fine. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In March he was so sick that it was an occasion on the days he got up to look out the window. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patria was still in the capital, and Dedd’s little one was sick, and so she was home, taking care of him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By an amazingly smooth dude who wants to build a sick state-of-the-art building! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The blissful rush of alcohol hitting my bloodstream lasts only a few minutes, and then I feel sick. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought makes me sick to my stomach, because even though I left them too, at least I was no good at pretending. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Now I called this meeting in order to get suggestions. I need new ideas for the web. People are already getting sick of reading the words ‘Some Pig!’ Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Wheat got sick, so Sapiens had to keep a watch out for worms and blight. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was never sick, but now she was suffering. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fish was light meat and he was sick of them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke was making me sick to my stomach, but I couldn’t leave until I got an answer. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Neither Rush nor his assistants could handle the press of sick people demanding his cure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Rowan asked, more than a little sick at the prospect. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When in the cold dawn a frost awakened Cal to a sick world he struggled home like a broken bug. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We helped the sick to their feet, and to them donated our own bedrolls, consenting to go without blankets for one night. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Good god, Joseph, everyone must be worried sick.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Kill him! Kill him. All this goodness is making me sick. I’ve lost my appetite. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thinking of Lola made Virgil sick and nauseous, like there were a million tears deep inside of him that wanted to come out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She had been frail, cast off, sick, and yet she had fought up to the very end for something. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me strangely and asked her sister wives, “Has the spotted devil child been sick too?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dae took a month off from school to care for his mother, who was sick with sickle cell. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The worst part was disease: if anybody got sick with anything serious, everybody on the ship was liable to get it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m kinda sick of surviving. At least Darnell is done with this world.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

What would he do if she got sick? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All three of us looked down at the dog asleep beside his sick boy. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He blocked another shot, hit a jumper from beyond three-point range, drove the lane and finished with this sick tomahawk over two guys. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t nobody touch me. Y’all make me sick. Every single one of you.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so sick that Old Rit heard about it, and went to Edward Brodas and asked him to take Minty away from Cook’s, to let her come home where Rit could look after her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me sick to look at it and I wonder if I should go home from all this sickness and this bucket and let my parents kill me if they want to. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But now their art and knowledge were baffled; for there were many sick of a malady that would not be healed; and they called it the Black Shadow, for it came from the Nazgûl. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was sick and tired of her grandfather’s speeches, of listening to his arguments with her Uncle Jaime, and of endless electoral campaigns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells Theo that being in the hospital was very interesting and that it is possible to learn how to live by being around the sick. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“They won’t send me to the hospital as a patient unless I’m sick,” he reported back to Major Major. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He kept still, knowing that the slightest movement of his head would mean being violently sick. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Feeling braver, she and Jennifer examined it and saw that it had been sick. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Five days later, as the Robes swept through the town toward the cursed house, Antain was home, sick to his stomach, vomiting his lunch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I got to watch Doris call in to her job and pretend to be sick, which is something she never did. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I was almost glad to be sick if it meant her bread and soup. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It would probably make him sick to eat it now anyway. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Brought some snacks. You gotta be sick of this hospital mess by now.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Are you sick, miss? Because I cannot afford to catch a cold." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Because, by God, I am sick of potatoes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried calling Danny on Friday afternoon, but he was still too sick to come to the phone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m sure. If you stay, you can hold his head. If it doesn’t make you sick, that is.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy had to miss his wife’s funeral because he was still so sick. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention relieved that I wasn’t sick. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This thing is bubbling. People are sick of it.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She could never have made it like a real one—and after all those weeks of planning the very thought of it made her sick. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She enveloped the sick and the dying with her strength, sending it from her body to theirs, sustaining them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just had to keep telling myself I could do it, but I had a hard time convincing the tired and sick Ryan Dean West. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“All this time, there I was thinking you were dying a the cancer or sick in the head. Poor Miss Celia, all day long.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was glad that my mother was not dead, but there was the fact that she would be sick for a long, long time, perhaps for the balance of her life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early moisture would set in, and I couldn’t afford to get sick. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As the tolerance education unit rolls into its third week, the only lesson anybody is learning is that you don’t have to be a racist to be sick of tolerance education. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She had been so sick, he was relieved when his mother told him his grandmother was gone. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

No man has nothing but misery, let him be never so sick. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me kind of sick to hear Grandma rip the skin off the catfish. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I haven’t caught up on my sleep. I had to be up a lot last week with everyone sick and all.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Since there are no mirrors, we look at each other’s faces to see just how frail and sick we are starting to look. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A wide smile spread across Zero's sick and weary face as well. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They stuck needles full of medicine into the female chickens, so the females wouldn’t get sick and die. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I guarantee you, men, it will be a sick, sick feeling if we go over there and play poorly,” he told them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once wanted these white moccasin- type shoes that were the fashion in those days, and I bothered Tateh to buy them fior me so much he got sick ofi me and relented. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this I did, thinking of the days I had been sick and without water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a sick or dying person is brought to her...this is the only time I think my mother knows who she is. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But what if you get sick again? What will I do then?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s just like Kapugen said—wolves take the old and sick.”She looked from the empty tundra to the busy den site. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so sick that my dad couldn’t bear to tell me about it and that my mom was instantly crying as soon as the details were mentioned. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended by saying that we’d already had a woman president during World War II. That Eleanor Roosevelt ran the country when her husband, the president, was sick. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I was one of the few survivors. I was sick a long time.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old sick feeling came back inside me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just waiting to see what you was gonna do to me ...” I leaned weakly against a wall, feeling sick, my eyes upon the sharp steel blade of the knife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother is sick but he wouldn’t let me see her. He would not even take the food. He closed the door in my face.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming home, they would be slowed by thousands of free folk, many sick and starved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Port Royal was filled with contrabands, poverty- stricken, sick, homeless, starving. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a “good person,” as my demented charges at the nursing home agree, but maybe Em also just sick of my suddenly acquired insignificance. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was amazing that as sick as she was, she could still be interested in something as small as the ring of a phone. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why will God not save her? He brought his son, who was dead, to life again. Why can he not raise this sick woman from her bed?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need to know much more than that to feel sick to my stomach. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Vega didn’t tell me he was sick,” I said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t going to be a real trial because the man was very sick mentally and was to be sent to a hospital for the criminally insane. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophelia peppered him with questions, like why were so many people here hopelessly sick, and why weren’t the roads better? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You must be sick of pizza, right, Drew?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“They were all sick last week,” she said. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Being sick from drugs wasn’t like being sick from a cold, although Uncle D could never seem to be rid of the cold he always had. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It made him sick to look up at them, sideways. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Our breathing became shallow, and I felt sick and lightheaded. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I remembered the huge pile of used tissues that littered the coffee table, and how Butternut stayed near me the whole day, like he knew I was sick and needed a friend. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“What were you thinking? How could you? We were worried sick. We thought...we thought you were dead.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m hairy, ugly, dirty, stooped, snaggle-toothed, and gray. And also I feel sick from the radiation; I think I’m going to die.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A carpenter was found to build beds; a horse, cart, and attendants were hired to bring in the sick and carry out the dead. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

So I take it just to get her hand off of mine because her hand is squishy and flabby and makes me feel sick. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew it meant certain death for him—he was too sick and his leg was in too much pain to fend for himself in the jungle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I feel sick,” Amil said in a scratchy voice, his skin dry, his eyes sunken. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her first impulse was to turn and run, or to be sick. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He made me so nervous, that I would get sick, literally sick. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She could not shake the sick, nervous feeling in her stomach. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But he was sick that day, so I went in alone. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At the house of the sick person, usually a cousin or aunt or uncle of ours, I put a holy look on my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A fresh kill . . . the blood would still flow, my lords. Later . . . later it would be clotted, like a ... a jelly, thick and . . . and . . ." He looked as though he was going to be sick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Um, it’s sick. It’s got a disease. I have the medicine and stuff. For it.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had been sick, and I had promised her I would help. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When someone died in an accident, his organs were used to save the lives of sick people. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Greenville, my grandfather is too sick to work anymore, so my grandmother has a full-time job. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

You had to be pretty sick for the Genies to hook you up with a Wish. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

At times he even sat upon the Iron Throne to dis-pense king's justice, when the king was absent, or sick, or otherwise indisposed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the heavens were fair, wartime misfortunes would be mutually exclusive; since Baby was sick, she could not be harmed in an air raid. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You told me when you were sick,” I said. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘It this way. You recall them parts about Jesus raising the dead and curing the sick?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered the first time I had seen him up close, when he was lying sick in the tent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, when an animal gets sick, the Salatins try to figure out what is going wrong in their system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I told Colin that my mother was sick upstairs, and that I was just rushing home from the store. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He went from one to another, a sick feeling in his stomach. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was sick, if it was just a coincidence that she happened to be out of school right after I discovered that my notebook was missing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Sick? What sick? I tell you, it was a curse put on my own child to get back at me.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He had tried to sell her when she was sick and worthless. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Etta was still so sick that she couldn't sleep crowded three in a bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A second later I feel sick with myself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He’s not afraid of the sick the way I am. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The chattering voice might tell the story, how Faye was sick, and what she looked like, and about the will. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told Papa about it but he was too sick to understand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got his face nose-touchingly close so that I could only see his eyes, I couldn’t tell he was sick. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Is there some reason you’re both hiding up here? Because you don’t look very sick.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In their panic, the healthy fled from the sick, carrying the disease with them to neighboring communities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They were a group of sisters taking their father to Peshawar for medical treatment. They were having a difficult time with the old man because he was so sick.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I am so sick of people asking me that,” I grumble. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There is a sick, reactionary villain in the script, an Irish landlord who refuses to rent to the couple, who by this time have been married in this subdued Ethical Culture ceremony. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day he got so sick at work that Ito took him back to the bracero camp. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I'd never been inside a police station before, and when we got there, I felt like I was gonna be sick. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Plenty of people have gone inside Kitum Cave without becoming sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Richard,” said an uncle, “you know how sick your mother is?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she was sick, she wanted to be near both of them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ran there? What do you mean, you ran there? Where’s the car? Christ in heaven, do you know how worried I was? I was worried sick.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The next day I was well and Mother was much worse, too sick to drink or eat anything. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the first occasion they were lucky enough to find and kill a sick owl that had eaten a mouse that had eaten poison-dressed seed corn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It happened so quickly—and the ones who got sick afterward have already died. I think I’d have symptoms by now.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Saturday night came and I sent word to the boss that I was sick. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get home to the trailer, Lenny is closed off in his bedroom instead of at work, and Frank says something about him being sick. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No. But he’s got it. And hospitals suck. And treatments suck. And friends watching you be sick sucks. And watching your parents cry sucks. So maybe he just wants to climb a mountain and disappear.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of change. Nothing makes sense anymore. Not Lolo or the kids at school or anything.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She lifted the three dolls and held them to my sick uncle’s mouth, and when he breathed on them they seemed to squirm in her hands. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Hari’s parents were ashamed to admit before this dignified man that they had married so young and so sick a son to get money. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already been in there. I have to go home. I’m sick. Put me down.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And,” he added, “you didn’t know him before he got sick. His coat was the best thing about him.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They joined ecstatic cults and allowed sick refugees to desecrate the great temples, where they died untended. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pass out cold for an hour or two, then I wake, sick with fear, sick with myself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you can hold it yourself, that’s when you know it’s okay for you to eat more without getting sick.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Creatures that feed on insects, especially birds, also get sick and die. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am sick of this blue dye. We should have washed it out.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“They were right. It did. But not quite as sick as you lying to me for Coin.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“When I was sick—so sick, I thought I would die—sometimes the highlight of my day was that I hadn’t soiled myself.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I never felt this way before, maybe because I never had a home to be sick for.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Terryl says: “I’m sick and tired of shoving things under the carpet. People have a duty to stand up,” and not just within their families. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Anyone left to wade through this would become sick, he was sure. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m the person who’s going to take care of you when you get sick,” he answered. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In those first paralyzing moments I didn’t have a clue, just an increasingly sick feeling in my stomach. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The water monster is sick. He gets dizzy spells and nausea. Is there anything you can*think of that can affect water monsters?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Or if they weren’t actually feeling sick yet, it was clear to them that with everyone coughing, sneezing, and wheezing all around them, it was only a matter of time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was trembling hard and feeling sick, because pressing at him was the knowledge that he’d killed someone, that he was a murderer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I immediately felt sick to my stomach and swayed on my feet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In return, when she is sick, Enrique rubs medicine on her back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It also occurred to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Here’s fifty cents, Francie. Go out and get a quarter pound of sweet butter, a box of soda crackers and two navel oranges. Tell the man you want navel. Say they’re for a sick lady.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sick wandered through the streets with missing eyes, picking the lice from their hair and throwing them at the healthy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juanita pushed her fists into the empty backpack on her lap, which deflated as she leaned over like she was going to be sick. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then his older brother walked in the room and said it was both of our faults if he got sick to his stomach listening to us. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Because his white blood cells can identify and destroy the infected cells, this man doesn’t get sick. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all are marched to their death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As we watched, a skinny old guy with a deputy’s badge pinned to his long johns stepped forth and was real sick over the rail into the water. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But although he felt sick most days for much of the day and often slept terribly at night, he kept writing and publishing books and articles, on orchids and climbing plants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is looking at the picture of Jesus, and suddenly I ask him, “Why do that man look so sick, with his eyes rolled back like he go into a fit?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those things are hellish. People being sick all over the place.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"If you don't believe me, just look at old Mary Lou here. She's never been sick a day in her life." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He said a whole lot of things which all added up to the fact that I was sick. Well, I could have told the young fool that from the start.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The joyous celebration lasted long into the night, and the stillness was fractured often by wild, exultant shouts and by the cries of people who were merry or sick. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She kept his house and shared his bed; she visited the sick, as she had always done, and she comforted the dying, as she had always done. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I was supposed to be there. But I got sick, just like I always do.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There was no mention in its rosy descriptions of sick lungs or blacklisting or men with wives at Concord. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was sick and tired of that bowl and that log and that circle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Feeding corn to a steer changes the chemistry of the rumen, making it acid and causing a kind of heartburn that in some cases can kill the animal, but usu-ally just makes him sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Not even the doctors had a good time of it, for while many people were sick none of it was good-paying sickness. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Frankie did hear about the party and he heard about the presents and a feeling of fullness swelled in him and a feeling of sick longing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had come to think of my mother as a brave, sad, sick woman. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I turned it up as hot as he could bear to warm his bones so he didn’t get sick. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Dude, can you believe how sick the uniforms are?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Emilika is looking at me, but I can see Danuta over her shoulder, and she is the one who looks sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After an hour in sick bay, they both looked a lot better; but Percy could tell they weren’t sure what to think about their old boss from Camp Jupiter dropping in for lunch. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His mother would be worried sick once she realized he was out in this weather. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Daddy was going to say he was well here and sick somewhere else, what would there be to settle? Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sick were allowed to stay in the block. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know or care what she had in mind, but I did understand when she told me through gestures that she had told Margaret Weylin I was sick. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the girls is sick, so I have to go in early.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While I was living there I decided that I would make the cave into another house, where I could stay should I again get hurt or sick. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sick of soldiers, livin’ and dead; I’m sick of all of ’em.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am sick of it not being Saturday. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She raised her staff, but a sick feeling rushed through her so powerful that her muscles slackened. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I just keep falling, and something sick and weightless fills my stomach. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And I might still be very sick if they give it to me early. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That made me not be mad at you anymore. God, rapping is sexy. Pudge, did you even know that you’re in the presence of the sickest emcee in Alabama?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And the fact that I was on the better side made me feel sick to my stomach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her how sick you were. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatmata didn’t torture us so much while we were sick with fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sick, crazy woman who’s been shut up in an attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A hot wind blew from behind me, bringing the sick sweetish odor, like the smell of some female dogs in season. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten Snow was the first to fall into a fever, and then those in the lodge where the sick man had stayed fell ill, one after the next. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Somehow the reporters concluded that the sick monkeys had been “destroyed as a precaution” when in fact the nightmare, and the reason for troops, was that the animals hadn’t been destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have told you people that I am not sick. I am only pregnant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Gran, she’s always rescuing things: birds with broken wings, a sick beaver, a deer hit by a car. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let it go at first, but by the third day, I’m sick of it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even so, they’d all been a little sick those first few months. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The way he said the word, hissing it, sneering it, made her feel sick. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It made her feel sick to think she might have been dismissing James, a new friend she wanted to impress, the same way she’d felt her brother had been dismissing her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The stink of sweat, the sick sweet of what he’d been drinking. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

You could glance at Gus and never know he’d been sick, but I carried my disease with me on the outside, which is part of why I’d become a homebody in the first place. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take no whole lot to figure she was crying cause her mother was sick, but I asked her anyway. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Like hell it is. Who called who? And who came two hours late? You’re gonna stick around till I’m sick of you. The hell with your lousy career.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There was no telling their children they were sick and that was why they didn’t want to tickle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Devon said it was a sick dog who would attack them and make them all die. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought made Pong sick to his stomach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind at all, as I am so sick of “The Last Time I Saw Paris.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Caddy you cant do it if you are sick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He treats all the important people in East Africa: the corrupt politicians, the actors and actresses who get sick on safari, the decayed English-African nobility. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom got sick I kept wishing I had a time machine so I could go back and fix things. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Missionary Circle? My grandma used to be a member. I thought all they did was visit sick people and gossip.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They prefer to take it for granted that we only die because we get sick, with one lethal ailment or another, and if we did not have our diseases we might go on indefinitely. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m feeling sick to my stomach as we go rollercoastering back to Queens. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My friend was sick, and I didn’t know what to do. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t too long after that that Hazel’s mother sat her down and explained that Jack’s mom was sad, that she was sick with sadness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I hate to see sick people, old men and women lying in beds moaning, grabbing on to the nurses’ sleeves. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Why didn't I tell my mother to call in sick today? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You all right? You sick? You been drinking?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world and the shock had made him physically sick. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Sad little mouse! You do look sick...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It made Thomas sick to think people were hanging on to that hope of just one person dying; the more he thought about it, the less he believed it was true. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I bet she calls in sick the rest of the year. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as her mother died, she stopped eating, and started drinking more and getting real sick. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still very sick and weak, but the sleep and the onions seemed to be doing him some good. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Everyone’s been inside since the morning after that Berg came. The ones who helped the people who got shot... most of them got sick and died, too. Just took a little longer.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s sick of you,” said the rabbit. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

These poor people are being shipped off to filthy slaughterhouses like a herd of sick and neglected cattle. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure her old heart could take another round of sick and worry. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Dear T. Ray, l am sick to death of you yelling at me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was being retreated with the same first-line regimen and, of course, Farmer knew, as he put his stethoscope to her chest, she was only getting sicker. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The boy felt sick and wanted to cry, but he touched Sounder on the good side of his head. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our spirits become sick from contact with the enemy. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dan Dalgard, wearing a respirator and a jumpsuit, selected four sick monkeys for sacrifice, the ones he thought looked the sickest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What Ambrose says makes sense. Would you lift the wretched creature up and carry him to the sick bay, please?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Coach, I’m just really sick today. I’ll be back up to speed tomorrow.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The fact is, my cat, Sir Fig Newton, a member of my family for almost six years, is sick. He has diabetes. And just like for people, there’s no cure.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mama always prayed to him whenever one of us got sick because she said the Holy Child Jesus took care of poor and sick people, especially children. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some are so sick they cannot get up to relieve themselves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are really sick people, sick that you can see. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In one swift maneuver, I switch the sick and healthy baskets. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a face before me, a lean and shriveled face like an apple too long in the barrel, a lonely face and sick with loneliness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phineas must still be too sick, or too noble, to tell them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers through the sick woman’s hair, lightly scratching the scalp, and then looking at what the fingernails revealed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Khouy gets sick, coughing up blood, we are forced to fend for ourselves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch my mom eyeing Mallory several times with the slightest bit of contempt, and it gives me a sick satisfaction. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Most preachers are sick or too exhausted to rise from their beds. A few stay in the square during the day, that takes care of the praying.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or have it tattooed over her heart when he finally got sick of her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Your head is in the clouds today! Are you sick or in love?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If someone puts his own needs first—whether he is injured, sick, or simply refuses to cooperate—that person becomes the weakest link. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Hey, did you see Joey, or hear if he’s sick or something?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She stopped once to be sick over the side. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I feel a little sick just thinking about it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Will was bending over, trying not to be sick. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That same day, Roosevelt and Cherrie, who was sick with indigestion, started the climb up and over the mountain, making their way to the new campsite at the foot of the rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid forgot that she got sick in cars, that all vehicles but palanquins made her dizzy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The invasion’s long in coming, the men are being shipped off to Germany, the children are sick or undernourished, everyone’s wearing worn-out clothes and run-down shoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I write this sitting up upon the flock-bed I have been lying on with the sick. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And I was becoming sick of my delicate state. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mom, Dad, Lily, and I officially moved in at the beginning of the summer, when Gram finally told us how sick she was. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Almost as odd as Grace getting sick right after she ate your brownies,” added Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I was standing by the door and heard her. She said Liz is real sick. But I don’t think that’s true, because Liz was in school last Friday and she was fine.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sick and tired of all the fuss. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, it was the food that made us sick, young and old alike. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they came checking, he would be in bed, pretending to be sick. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You can sail a ship or fly a dragon, but cars make you sick?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If Grace hadn’t hated him so much, it would have been funny, but the only thing she felt was a sick thrill for surprising him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At the front door, he kisses Mami, then he kisses me, avoiding our eyes, as if he doesn’t want us to see how worried sick he is. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to come here, but Mom was sick. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I see her furiously looking at the neat columns and rows that I made into a pretty sick cartoon, imitating a level of Donkey Kong, while Mom and Dr. Hamid chatted. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The charge of extortion and gouging the sick for more money was particularly painful to the two leaders. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“It is so hard to live without you. I am so sick of missing you.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time it’s Sam telling me she is sick, so she can’t come either. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

During that time, she went into the city, hoping to get her travel permits arranged before she became visibly sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This chapter will begin by considering what a “disease” is, and why some microbes have evolved so as to “make us sick,” whereas most other species of living things don’t make us sick. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the perfect plan... until over the course of 1955, Jimmy started to feel sick, first with headaches that kept getting worse, then weakness. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My mother must have felt the same way, because in the years following his death she often got sick. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I told my mom I felt sick, and that was true. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"We have been worried sick about you!" he said. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was while I was so sick that Dad came back. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one told me why Mama Lessie had gotten sick or if she would ever recover and come home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to sleep but too drowsy to be awake, too sick to dream. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You must go to the doctor right away. Gregor is sick. Hurry to the doctor. Have you heard Gregor speak yet?" The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Charles himself was too sick to go right away. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to the tenders of the sick that on the Halfling and on the Lady of Rohan this malady lay heavily. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But they were so weak and sick that he said, “Yes, it’s nearly over, we’ve nearly done it. We’ll be out soon.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If I got, well, sick with something really awfully bad like pneumonia or cholera or something...” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

From the beginning of their marriage she was a partner with Dorus in his professional life—going with him to visit parishioners and to bring food to the sick. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I am so ashamed of myself I want to be sick again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Doc’s supplies had started running low when Gran got sick, but he must have been busy restocking his products. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I knew this was going to happen after I found out she was sick; I just didn’t think it would happen so soon. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’d be worried sick if she came in and found that he and Boots had disappeared. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The King gets sick, all the wives would be letting their hair go and eating sweets day and night to wreck their figures. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been sick for two whole days and had only just managed to drag himself out of bed, reluctantly, for his dreaded meeting with the Hartliebs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling a little sick and I wanted to be alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He stayed with me while you were sick, and now I’m sorry to part with him. And sorrier to part with you, Sparrowhawk. But I’m going home. Here, hoeg! go to your true master!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just worn out and sick, even though he was trying to smile, and you could tell he was feeling low. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The reason I was getting sick in there is —” I thought about telling him the whole truth, but I just couldn’t. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “I been worried sick about you too, Macon.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then if you aren’t sick what favorable construction can you put upon your behavior? Any excuse for it?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“These are men and women, sick and hungry and afraid.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was enough, Lizzie’s granddaddy said, to make even a man sick in bed look up and take notice, seeing those clams slip out of their shells. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The easiest way to get in trouble, everyone said, was to arrive at work late or call in sick too often. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another whole year of being sick, no hope for a cure on the horizon. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was numb, I was half-deaf, I was sick, shaking, stinging, and smudged with dirt and oil. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Do I have to tell you that I was absolutely sick with fear? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said that everybody at the Optometry School was sorry he was sick and hoped he would be well soon, and Billy said, “When you see ’em, tell ’em, ‘Hello.’ Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Mother I felt too sick to walk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She just sat there, smiling kind of sick, not moving while right next to her Mom and Smell Factor crinkled up the disposable table together and threw it away. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when she kissed him good night when he was sick, they were cold, he remembered. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been diagnosed with tuberculosis and was sick a lot less time than Uncle Clyde was. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“When I looked up at our train car, everyone looked sick,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And people casually, unknowingly ingested all kinds of poorly preserved ill-cooked food that could make them sick or kill them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny amount will make the rat sick but not kill it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Unless I’m being reprimanded at school for forging sick notes from Mom. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

So it was nice to be sick at Down House. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s for the sick one,” he said, checking behind him nervously. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At first the smell of the meat made Lupita’s mouth water; then it made her feel sick to her stomach. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was Mr. Loomis walking from the house to the wagon; it reminded me of the time before, when he was so sick and had fired the gun. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Since he’d first gotten sick at Princeton in early July, Hume had never really stopped coughing and dragging around. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the way up the stairs he began to feel sick. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that since drinking the water had not made him sick again, perhaps he should eat something. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A woman got up and said, “We don’t care if he’s been to Africa. We want to know if we’re going to get sick!” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pancakes could have been cooked shoes for all he could taste, and the sweet smell of the syrup was making him feel sick. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care how you think you feel. You’re sick. Really sick, okay? You need to call your mom and go home.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, still nothing, not even an ellipsis, and I feel a little sick about it. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As if you weren’t supposed to get sick when you were eighteen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boom jerked back and forth, ropes flopped like sick snakes, the sails looked sloppy and loose, and she rolled from side to side on the smallest swell or wave like an old washtub. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood the surfer dude I’d seen when I was recovering in the sick room. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tears blinded my eyes, but the running got rid of the sick feeling inside. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was so sick with malaria that he couldn't even start the overland journey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“No? Well, you gone be sick later on.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of a rainy Alabama night, the succession of sexual oddments turned me suddenly sick with dread at what this stranger would want. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no doubt he was really sick this time. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of going had made him sick to his stomach. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Francie wondered whether Mr. Hudson got sick to his stomach like she did.. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was sick, but I’m sure she’s better now. She’s at home, the Cook Coffeehouse. If you will just send me there.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like three days’ worth of homework in one night to catch up from being out of school sick. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dudley had always taken anything that Harry really wanted, even if it made him sick. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“This table come with house when we rent. There are many table in America you can own. Many peanut butter. Akira will get sick of it, there is so much!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment Malcolm felt sick, and closed his eyes and held himself steady. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Not a contagious kind of sick or anything, but the kind where he couldn’t go outside. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Who would take care of her if she were sick? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So as the story goes on, she gets sicker, the treatments and disease racing to kill her, and her mom falls in love with this Dutch tulip trader Anna calls the Dutch Tulip Man. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dad’s face turned white and I started to feel sick when I saw that the gray hair around his temples was slick with sweat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had concluded our conversation the week before by saying, “An old friend told me that he’s very sick. I asked my friend to pass on your number to his wife.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I looked at Danny and managed what must have been a sick smile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Mom tries to wake me, I say, “I’m sick,” and pull the covers to my nose. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t you see now how sick it is, the way they’ve got to obey?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Mark sixteen eighteen. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing; it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover “Bravo.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There would be many sick now the rains had started. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Was he sick with a fever like Mama? I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You won’t get proper food or medicine by shooting travelers on the road. What happens if Amin gets sick again? Or if you get hurt?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You make her twice as sick with all your wailing.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are your Seven Kingdoms so different? There is no peace in Westeros, no justice, no faith ... and soon enough, no food. When men are starving and sick of fear, they look for a savior.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I come to, Ma tells me that Kim and Chou were also sick and had the same nightmares of being tracked down and killed by monsters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern lay dreaming that she was getting sick in the swings. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’m so dreadfully sick of spewing wireless code. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He tried to shout insults, but the words wouldn’t come out.They stayed inside, getting bigger and bigger until he was sick to his stomach. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mirren felt sick and Johnny took her downstairs for some tea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Justin’s grandmother is sick, but instead of admitting he’s upset about it, he just lashes out at the world more. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s a horror that makes me sick to my stomach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s about him I’ve come to see you. He’s taken terribly sick.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I am hungry, I realize, but I feel too sick to eat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I saw Beau perk his ears and look over, but I was too sick and too tired to notice the man through the window and how he was looking at me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t tell them why, but he said that Brad was really sick at this party and needed to be taken home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that God had finally gotten sick of me being teased and picked on all the time. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, one day at the very end of February, Mrs. Frisby’s younger son, Timothy, fell sick. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a fine mind. No wonder you keep yourself sick all the time.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"To lose so much for the sake of freedom. Shows you what a sick world this is." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, I complimented her on her vocabulary, but at that moment her consideration was making me sick to my stomach. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Your sister is sick with grief. She cannot know what she is saying." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He could hear his brother panting with the quick explosive breath of a sledgehammer man, and in the sick starlit dark he could see his brother through the tear-watered blood that flowed from his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to blame them for my sick dog and for all the other sickness in the world. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sick lay in the stiflingly hot building unattended, calling out for water, moaning pitifully, and vomiting on themselves. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s sick that I ever thought I could be? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Just tell me one thing. Are you sick?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You look sick. Have you been eating junk at school?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even though he is so sick, they decide to go through with the move to the bigger apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But even if I got sick, I knew my parents would be very worried about me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The walk to the office feels endless and yet suddenly I’m there and I can see my dad’s face and I finally know what the sick feeling has meant. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then Daisy got sick and could not play anymore. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When a sick person was about to die, my mother could read the fact of it a year ahead of time on the daughters-in-law’s faces. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want them to look at me like I’m sick. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I felt a little sick whenever he came near the table, but he said nothing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“This is no new thing. The Sealord was sick yesterday, and he will still be sick upon the morrow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you are, Billy,” she said, “very sick. Mama said when Old Man Johnson went crazy, his eyes turned green. I want to see if yours have.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Forever and ever, kid, until you’re sick and tired of seeing me.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Nothing. This whole show makes me sick is all." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He left my sight for a long time, and I got nervous and even started to feel sick to my stomach, but then his light flashed somewhere different from where I’d thought he was. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You make me sick, David Hull,” I said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on—it makes me sick, it is and always was disgusting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom was sick like this before. She was depressed before.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Who will I be if I’m not sick? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thought alone makes me sick to my stomach. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Harry,” she said, crouching down in front of him and using the kind of voice he associated with visiting the very sick, “you don’t think you’ve been possessed, do you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I stare, feeling sick and happy all at the same time. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I suspected that he was sick in bed, as he had been prone to pulmonary illnesses since the explosion had charred his lungs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It felt like a Sunday which is normally a treat, but now its too much and we are sick with our freedom. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The thought of the crack suddenly opening out of sight of land made her feel sick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she bent down and touched me as mothers of the church “lay hands on the sick and afflicted” and I quieted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Commandant is sick enough to use the slaves’ friendships against them, then it’s no wonder Izzi and Cook keep their distance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was sick to death of visits to the INS that required standing in lines that made the DMV look like a spa day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Was I so desperate to survive that I would steal bread from a sick boy? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did still look a bit sick, so Harry entered Madam Malkin’s shop alone, feeling nervous. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Again he does not say he can see how sick Theo is. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He pauses, and then: “I’m sure she was also getting sick of the fact that I wouldn’t really kiss her.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“They go creeping around the city taking advantage when girls are feeling sick or worn out. Now you’ll be blacklisted, and what will I do without you?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I get sick of eating Mexican food every single day of my life, if heaven existed, I know it would smell like fried tortillas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I also had twice the energy, and I got sick a lot less frequently. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We loaded the sick onto the wagon, along with some bedding, some clothes, a frying pan or two, and other things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mentally piece together a story: The baby is sick, and the soldier mustn't get too close or he’ll catch the illness. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You weren’t too sick to beat up my boy. Now fight,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She can't eat, she can't sleep, she feels sick all the time. I'm not much better. How can they make you do this?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sí, very dizzy and sick to my stomach. I felt so weak I fell down. Then I threw up.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, I got back a short message saying everything was okay, but he was sorry, he really didn’t feel like talking about being sick. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d already been on the previous Friday to see their daddies, and every one of them had gotten car sick on the way there and back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m deliberately slow, my stomach heavy with a sick feeling every time I peer sideways at Mama. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I boiled that head an’ sick an’ all as he was Dennis couldn’t wait for it to be done. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I became physically sick to my stomach when I heard about three more Civil Rights workers killed in Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had just finished the second yard of the second day, and I was already a little sick of the sight of grass, grass, grass. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I think I am sick,” I tell Mom. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought there was no more sick call.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Say,” said the man, “aren’t you feeling well? You look sick.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt sick the whole journey to Maer, and Saturday was torture. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom threw my dad out of the house last year. He never got sick.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“How do you know? Did she get hit by a car? Is she sick?” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“After the first couple of years, when I was convinced he wasn’t sick, they said I could hold him, but he wouldn’t let me. He acted like it hurt to be touched.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“God. I am so sick. Don’t ever let me do that again.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Crepuscule’s crew protesting the proximity of the sick, we have dragged the pallets of the afflicted fore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A couple times I had to open them back up quick, though, ’cause I knew if the world turned even one more rotation I’d be sick. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I left, sick with exhaustion, wondering where a Negro could sit to rest. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hovercraft lifted, and Fidelito announced that he always got sick on airships. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come to school long enough to infect the staff room, then go home sick when the sub shows up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was sick of this whole ugly business, and just wanted it to end. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Later, I talked about a sick grandmother, and her sick, wealthy friends who were willing to pay extra money for extra meat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The throbbing in my head was so brutal, I had to clench my teeth to keep from getting sick all over myself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Anthropologists who interviewed the Aché recorded a case in which a band abandoned a middle-aged man who fell sick and was unable to keep up with the others. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His touch, the rough hand on me, made me feel sick, and dirtier on the inside than I was on the outside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He’d been sick for several months but refused to see a doctor. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She could see herself a child, rocking a baby in a cradle, rock, rock, rock; could see herself sick with the measles, walking the length of Cook’s trap line, in winter, shivering, eyes watering. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I know they get their food and everything, and if they get sick, a vet gives them medicine. But don’t you think they’d rather be chasing a zebra across the savanna?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Currie admitted that the illness was “strengthened by a particular construction of the atmosphere,” but he insisted that the best way to deal with it was by quarantining the sick. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

"We better take it slow on that stew. Remember the first night on the train? The rich food made me sick and I wasn't even starving then." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

From the inground hiding spot, they waited for the sick and weary to come. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sick of the red walls of my room. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I think your friend being sick is going to get you some leeway. But the tsar closed off this road for a reason. For safety.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was constantly getting sick, so his nervous parents tried to protect him by keeping him inside. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know anything. Go away. I’m tired and you make me sick. Go away.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Webb knows I wasn’t feeling well at practice yesterday, but he doesn’t know I got sick. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, they just announced that this kid is sick.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By the time Fred showed up that night, I had eaten myself sick. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He said: “Do you remember when I was sick—something you did?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The abandoned makeshift hospital looks sicker than its patients. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up to look at the damage, and felt sick. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The conditions there were so bad, and they had so many sick and everything, that my friend and I decided we wouldn't work there," Haupt said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The rest are women, old sick men, and boys whose hair has never been braided. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gram didn’t tell us she was sick until a couple of months ago. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is certain that thousands upon thousands of sick people through the centuries believed that he had freed them from their pain and restored them to health. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked slightly nauseous, as though she had just watched someone being sick. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Please leave me alone. I’m fine, just a little sick,” Wes yelled out, but his voice was barely audible through the pillow pressed tightly against his face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A sick feeling buries itself real deep inside me, like a thousand roaches crawling all over me, worse than what we got in our kitchen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Percy, where have you been? Your message said almost nothing! We’ve been worried sick!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I need a sick note for today,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of you, too! Who made you king, anyway?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The perennial “sick man” of the Hellenistic world, the kingdom of the Seleucids had been coming apart almost since its inception. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Years ago people, other people, not us, they kinda got sick. Really the whole world itself got sick.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Their job is to ride the yard’s dusty streets, spotting sick animals and bringing them into Poky’s three “hospitals” for treatment. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She takes care of sick kids so much that it’s her first instinct. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look sick,” he said, brushing a bunch of leaves into the street. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was too sick with worry to notice I was safe. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t too groggy or sick to head into school or anything like that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I felt sick with his fear and said nothing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I am sick, also, need medicine for stomach,’ ” the Sherpa recalls. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks, Therese has been too sick even to rise from her bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He said he was abject, and told me his stomach was taken sick with the very thought of his vanity, and praised and thanked me profusely for my candor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This is one of those strange concepts like Munchausen’s syndrome, where you make yourself sick to get people to notice you. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, I can — that’s what makes me sick. It smells like rust . . . and salt.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Why are you going to Dr. Randolph anyway? You don’t look sick.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

"I think maybe she went home sick. She wasn't on the bus." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I got a sick feeling in my stomach that it’s something else. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of how sick I felt, how hurt. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After another interminable minute had passed, Kate said, “I’m sick of waiting. I say forget the plan and let’s try to rescue Milligan instead.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took food to the sick and poor, no matter if they were parishioners or their Catholic neighbors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was about to be sick. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was there that I went when I was sick and tired of everybody, which was most of my twelfth year. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting sick of selling stuff. Jeez, my father’s starting to call me ‘my son, the salesman.’ The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wept a little, wheezing like she was sick in the chest, and thanked me for my concern. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, that’s what you said the last time. How much longer? I’m sick of this old car.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard he’s gone on sick leave,” Goober said. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not hysterical. I’m just sick of you complaining every time I try to do something for your son. You don’t care. You just don’t care.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather was sick for a long time,” Lena says at last. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He came to Chicago to see the fair but got sick and spent eleven days in his hotel room, then left without ever seeing the White City. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Of the three who stayed, two died of the fever, while the other became too sick to do any sort of work. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

If he was going to be too sick to eat later, he had better eat now and build up his strength. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A powerful pecan essence wafted into my face, not at all unpleasant, considering how sick I was of pecans. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Rosa send message: You cry, cry. Make yourself sick. She explain better what we got in mind. Speak better Shona.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was sick and begging for my food in Xinjiang, what was she doing here? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m so frightened that none of them will ever come back out again that it leaves me sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Good. I’m sick of running. Sick of losing my hair too, and being short-sighted. I’ve done my bit, and you look pretty fast.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sick child received, above all, extra attention. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost worth getting sick to miss Gym.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Like me! Sugah, at that time in my life I thought any boy who didn’t ask me to marry them was both physically and emotionally sick.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t cough all the time but still acts sick. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to avoid looking at them, the way you try not to be sick by ignoring the fact that you're about to be. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The stench in the crowded boxcar was overwhelming, a powerful stew of human perspiration and fear and the smell of children being sick. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was in my stomach, because I kind of felt like I was going to be sick. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Protection of the sick, weak, and inferior is not sensible. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She and I were always sick with something. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Thomas drew, he started to feel a tickle of panic, a sick feeling that what they were doing was a complete waste of time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But I was sick of the burden of carrying their secrets. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long time, I don’t feel sick. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Those who do become sick and openly acknowledge it, moreover, will often be blacklisted from future employment on expeditions. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It took years for scientists to figure out that unhappy animals get sick easier. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the wake of Prohibition, many Americans were sick and tired of hearing about the dangers of Demon Rum, and the press coverage was largely sympathetic to Holm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I told you it poisoned me. I told you it made me sick.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pictures had made her sick that first day, and now here she was ready to save them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The room's got a sick, coppery scent to it, and I do as the Duchess asks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

You and your mama and your stupid sister all make me sick!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen the man who answered the door but with a sick, dreamlike feeling I recognized him instantly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Almost a month had passed since Thomas had last called—the call I’d avoided by pretending to be sick. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

After calling in sick, he hopped into his newly purchased car and drove off to meet his friend Bill Wernecke, a fervent Nazi supporter and an expert draft dodger. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As the Quest leaped forward over the waves, he began to look very sick. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I could have moved—she looked so burrowed into her own little world—but I was sick of us avoiding each other all week after the party. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My dad left for Mexico because my grandma got sick. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It must really be hell to walk around sick all the time and have to depend upon pills. He’s really a sweet kid. And bright, too.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I am sick of people poking their noses in my business. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But I also feel rage, because why do I have this sick, panicky feeling when all I wanted was to stand up and stretch my legs and maybe pee? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He said he had just been putting on his respirator to go inside a monkey room when he began to feel sick to his stomach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids got sick, like Dad said, or they decided to play hooky. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

At one point in his Account he spoke about the Free African Society offering to procure nurses for the sick under the direction of Jones, Allen, and Gray. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And I had been sick because there was sick all over the bed and on my hands and arms and face. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I let him stay sick, I understood this reaction, I accepted it.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got sick, my dad acted like it wasn’t happening at first. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“When the test was over, I got sick. Must have been that liquid they gave us. I feel better now, though.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’s unfailingly cheerful and amazingly brave, despite the fact that he’s always sick and in pain and can’t eat much or do a lot of walking. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She felt sick, suddenly, and began to cry.“I'm sorry,” she gasped. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They kept a cool damp cloth on her forehead and she got weaker and sicker. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s sick and she needs to stay here a few days.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m just sick of waiting to find out what it’s like.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then, as the monkeys became sick, he had treated them with a drug in the hope that it would help them fight off the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were calling the attacker the Recluse, a spider that wasn’t much in the size department, but it packed a sick bite. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Infants, young children, pregnant women, the elderly, the disabled, the weak, and the sick were sent to the left in a line that ended at the gas chambers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The realtor who represents this property is sick.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It made me feel sick to think of killing my sperm with jelly. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Then we stick together and follow it. We can grind these shushrooms up and eat one fingernail-sized bite a piece. No more, or we’ll be sick for a week,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We give him every little treat we can think of, a wonder we don’t make him sick, and after supper we sit out on the back porch like we usually do. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no uniforms, no holidays, the pay is less, and if you stay out sick a day you can be fired. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

People didn’t just take sick like this for nothing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I keel over, sure I’m going to be sick. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“And because I know you like Mrs. Slater so much I got you a present from her,” she said with a sick grin on her face. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I mean, I wasn’t sick or anything, but I was standing perfectly still, frozen as a Popsicle, counting prime numbers in my head. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what do you suppose he’s doing, that poor sick kid?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Eugenia, I told you, her sister was sick so she went up to Chicago to live with her people,” she says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring, that we start shouting, "Bring us a basin! We're going to be sick!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bessy had been sick for quite a while; she slipped in and out of dementia. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Medicine makes people better when they’re sick. It’s like pills and castor oil.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“In place of our leader, sick in bed, I declare this Gathering begun,” he said, with a subtle roll of his eyes as if he hated anything approaching formality. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was when he was first sick that I had let him know I was here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

What I did was I found the file on the desktop from when Mom wrote my sick notes, and I opened it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, are you sick?” asks Taylor. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But I guess Ms. Albright is sick of hearing about it, so she lets us out early. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If she was going to be really sick, she didn’t dare remain exposed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eh! So many cookies, just to see them makes me sick. You take this cookie.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew her mother had gotten sick at thirty, so she’d long feared her own thirtieth birthday, figuring that whatever happened to her mother at that age would happen to her too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Thoughts like having to come back to take care of a sick parent and getting stuck here all over again. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The boy looked up with sick eyes, eyes soft and black like pieces of coal. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The nurse believes it is something she ate. She has a terrible case of diarrhea.You must come now. She has been sick all morning and asking for you all this time.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch the words “sick,” “not fooling anyone,” and “so dangerous.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It got bad and I got real sick with infection. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How can she climb trees, survive in the forest for a week, and eat all my daffodils without gening sick to her stomach?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have known, I guess, having heard him dreaming when he was sick, and the way he talked to Edward. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The longer you’re sick, the longer it takes to get better?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless, all ten patients were very sick—some were carried in to see Farmer on stretchers—with TB that was resistant to four or even five drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She felt so sick that she had to get off at the next station even though she knew she’d be late for work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner suddenly felt sick with sadness, as sick as when he had been standing on the rock ledges waiting for the sea to come crashing in on him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He vomited once, but that was only because his stomach had been so empty and so sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boss of the company was having the sick monkeys put in boxes and shipped out to a small island in Lake Victoria, where they were being released. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she’s just sick. She probably will be there first thing Monday morning! You know how she do.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“All my troubles be over if I could get my body sick stead of my head.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was only kidding,” I told him, feeling sick with dread. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lizzie put her hand to her head, and Turner thought she might be sick. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The fury in his eyes was enough to make Anya’s belly drop, and a sick feeling spread through her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He looked no one full in the face and his head drooped down to one side like a sick animal’s. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"I'm getting sick of all this in-your-face patriotism," I say. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I am sick unto death of talk. On die morrow I'm going to the kingswood to hunt. Whatever you have to say can wait until I return." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was sick and bedridden on Election Day, November 2, 1920. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He spent his days on the seashore, searching the horizon for a sail that never came, sick with longing to see even the smoke curling up from his house. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d make up a reason why I couldn’t go or cancel at the last minute saying I was sick...but not Nadine. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“This one is sick, this one looks sick, this one over here looks sick,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sissy threw Katie into another spasm of giggles by mumbling from the closet that the tenants had a nerve raising such a racket when there was a sick woman in the house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan Pothead has called in sick, when everyone knows he’s just hungover/still partying/hallucinating too much to drive. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That had been two days ago, and ever since then she’d called in sick to work and stayed home, spending every second with Luke. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were sick of my pleas for more dietary flexibility. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But suppose poor little Linnie got sick or something? And we needed a car to get her to a doctor?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sound it made was like a dying dream, and it brought that same sick, breathless ache back to my chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time I could see what Hari must have been like before he became so sick. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Virginia,” Silvia says, her forehead wrinkled in concern, “you don’t seem like yourself. Have you been sick?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sick of tears, of submission, of putting up with inhumane treatment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn’s stomach lurched, and he fought to keep from getting sick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the quay, Lefty and Desdemona stand up along with everyone else, with people too stunned to react, or still half-asleep, or sick with typhus and cholera, or exhausted beyond caring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I got off, sick, wondering how I could ever walk those eight blocks back to my original stop. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many different thoughts raced through my mind that I felt dizzy, and very weary and sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wondering if he were sick I went over to find out--an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He asks if I’m going to be sick and I say no. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I know why they call sick people by the word “patient.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a Wish?” he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

We may all be getting a little sick and tired of the apostrophe by now, so I’ll just get a couple more things off my chest. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m su’prised you would be that silly, Jeth. With so much spring work to do, you don’t have the time to get sick over smokin’.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When my mum was sick,” he says slowly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This time the warm water made her feel sick to her stomach. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Basically, almost all of the cattle in the feedlot are sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They took sick and died, both of them within a day.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ha' you any rats, mice, polecats, or weasels, or any old cows sick o' the measles?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I think about it, I get this sick feeling inside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The message was transmitted mouth to ear, ear to mouth, with gestures made by swift-moving hands that showed just how sick the master was. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you listen to me,” Henry said “Jeremiah took sick. He gonna sell that mule to somebody no matter what. Who gonna give that man a fair deal, you or just anybody in camp?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it has seemed inevitable to me since I saw how Evelyn chose to rule, I feel sick. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Heeding Hitler, SS squads rounded up every available man and boy they could comb out of the city, even plucking the sick and wounded from hospitals. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the eighth day, Pinch fell sick and was moved into the cabin where Nokomis took care of them all. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was home sick for most of February. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That you were sick, but we had to have food and I’m too little to take money to the market, so you got a farmer to give you a ride in his cart.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure where he was any more, maybe back in the jungles again; he felt a sick sweat shiver over him like the shadow of the angel Auntie talked about. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

After Thaya Jaan got sick earlier this year, my parents decided to keep our promise to visit him and finally make the trip to Pakistan this summer. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Every time I thought about that spelling test and not getting all ten words 100 percent perfect, I felt sick, right in my stomach. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Turning to me, he says, “Nobody killed Mango, Mia. You knew he was sick since the day you found him. It’s a blessing that we had him around as long as we did.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I feel a little sick to my stomach. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were sick two nights last week, Cotton Eye. Don’t you like your job?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And with more loved ones getting sick and word spreading of an even worse strain of influenza heading west from Chicago, Indianapolis, and Des Moines, those wives and mothers were determined to protect their families. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was in and out of many Negro homes each day and I knew that the Negroes were lost, ignorant, sick in mind and body. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I do not believe you are sick. We all have hunger pains. You are just a lazy, worthless city girl. Go back to work.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could always think of something to do for a sick person. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In all the time he was sick, Morrie never held out hope he would be cured. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never seen my grandma sick a day in my life. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But every time he came, he would leave Tabitha in her sick bed and walk around outside our compound. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the children were sick and had to stay home from school, they slept in that bedroom so that Brave Orchid could doctor them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t change the fact that Jeffrey was sick, but we could make sure we knew what was going on. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if this is true, mind, but I heard this story in the market, just a few days after you’d left with your grandfather. The oldest Ogilvie girl, the one who got sick?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So even though I still felt sick, I ate the food. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I thought about his kidney problem and wondered if he was gonna be sick right there on the court, in front of everybody. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Many days had passed during which he had been exposed to infected blood, and he certainly had not become sick yet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sick feeling in her stomach, she scanned them one at a time. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, old man, better get something in that stomach of yours before you get sick.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Noah, I’m going to tell you how things work in the real world. It might make you mad or sick to your stomach, whatever—but I want you to listen closely. Okay?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

No one’s coming out of their homes, because, like him and Daphne, they’re just too sick and weak. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All of us felt terribly sick that afternoon, but Martha was in agony. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me feel sick thinking I was now ten dollars off budget. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to say like a clotting of blood. Things turning sluggish and sick.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m sorry. I have everything I need and I’m quite comfortable. In fact, I’m not even sick.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t the snow get sick of coming here? Try some new towns for once!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was sick for over a year and yet there is not a single card, letter, balloon, or wilted bouquet of flowers in my room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was not the prudent course, but he was tired of prudence, sick of secrets, weary of waiting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And here you got me worrying myself sick about you running away and getting in trouble over me, and you would’ve run off anyway. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take this to her, please. She was so good to us when our Bernice took sick.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For a minute she thought she was going to be sick, but then she realized that this illness came from her spirit, not her body. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know gasoline always made you sick,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother told my mom that my father was very sick and that he did not want to see anyone. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was sick, no question about it, and lost. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worry lines in his forehead seem deeper than before, and Mama says he needs to stop stressing so much or he’ll make himself sick. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Nobody else would behave as badly. Oh, I'm so sick of the whole thing. And Michael. Michael's been lovely, too." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once, when my younger sister, Tabitha, was quite little, she got very sick. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which must, inadvertently, make me look a little sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I had a fully formed memory of my mother kneeling and talking—praying, I believe—to a bottle of antibiotics when Ruth May was so sick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bud and Donatelli were holding his arms, and Henry was hugging him, but he felt alone and sick. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sick of the way everyone was always fussing over him and asking how he was. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The doctors are still in their van; their faces appear at the window, white blobs, like the faces of sick children confined to the house. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I would get sick. I'm not supposed to love. I'm a Belle." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I said it was very important because my mother was sick and wouldn't have lunch ready for Phoebe and that she'd have to meet me and have lunch in a drugstore. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He told her how sick he’d been, how scared, how angry—angry even at a woman trying to give him kindness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If anything, it would lend credibility to the story that he was sick. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty, unforgivably guilty--as if he had just got some poor girl with child. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was feeling a little sick to my stomach and my head ached too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I was sick of feeling guilty,” I said at last, as though that explained it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“My father is sick,” I answered in his place . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If somebody’s sick and needs more blood in his body, we give him more blood than milk in the mixture. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am in the window to be sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Masuku was looking for a disease to make the tsetses sick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because she was a grandma, people didn’t think she was sick. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, he is sick in the corner. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She’d been real sick for a long time, and we all knew what was coming, so I should have been ready, but it don’t work like that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When a man is getting sick in an airline seat next to you, you may not want to embarrass him by calling attention to the problem. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment the room began to whirl, and I felt sick to my stomach. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have a good reason. It’s been a lot to deal with, Ivy. The house and then Aaron getting sick, and everything felt off after we sent you to Taryn’s.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We went into a humid cell overcrowded with sick, coughing men. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the darkness one sees their forms move like sick storks, like great birds. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sick feeling, which she had tried to prevent by holding in her stomach, came quickly in spite of her precaution. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When their youngest son, Jeremiah, fell sick, Beatrice could do nothing but pray. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

For some reason that one stupid, stupid thought made everything tighter and harder and clearer and sicker. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After the first day—when he had been sick, both from excitement and from the rolling of the deck— Tree-ear enjoyed watching the sea in all its changes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The sick man jumped up with a mighty curse and several ugly statements about my character. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says to me, Francis, your little brother Oliver is sick and we’re taking him to the hospital.You are to be a good boy and take care of your two brothers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“If anyone sick walks through my door I’m going to ground him,” Dr. Stubbs vowed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Because even though I was sick, I still wanted to win. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Hundreds. Thousands. Some sick, some burned, some wounded. The Cats and the Windblown are swarming through the hills with lance and lash, driving them north and cutting down the laggards.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re sick. No shape to be in the freezer packing meat.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And Elizabeth and Emma were both experienced at taking care of sick people. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once made a vegan really, really sick at a McDonald’s. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“From Teacher Zhang. He wanted somebody to bring you a message about a meeting at school tomorrow, and I volunteered. You haven’t been to school for days. I wondered if you were sick or something.'” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched sick men crawling upon the ground, holding out their hands in supplication to Redcoats who scurried past; begging to be lifted and carried. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Where he was immediately sick and threw up most of the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I swear I was just sick in the head from the Changing. I never would’ve killed him—just lost my mind for a second. Please, Alby, please.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I make him squirm, I’ve made him cry. He doesn’t know how I do it. I’m smarter than he is. I don’t want to do it. It makes me sick.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Consul is away, and the Vice-Consul sick; so the routine work has been attended to by a clerk. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He said, You tell anybody you saw diamonds in those bags your Mama and Daddy both will get sick and die. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night when he was sickest, when his pulse was almost gone and his breathing only a flutter, when I thought he was dying, I sat by his side and held his hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some thought that black-skinned people couldn’t get yellow fever, but I had seen two sick in the hospital. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worried sick about it, trying to think what to do and I could not decide. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, but all of my Manuel-induced butterflies had flown away, leaving me with a sick, empty feeling. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I cannot: I am tired and sick. I want some water.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He felt sick in the pit of his stomach to fear that he couldn’t trust Eril-Fane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. I’m so sick of that bet. You just gave me an excuse to be done with it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m so sick of living like this—so full of hate. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

To try to lessen these effects, the chart office would often “pencil in” a resource officer to the post of a senior officer who was sick or on vacation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are only distressing yourself and it might never have been. I tell you a hospital is only for the sick. There is nowhere for the old.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ravi’s teacher asked if I could replace a sick parent on the field trip tomorrow.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Can’t be that. Can you imagine a youngster getting sick on pizza?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m feeling sick, but I force down some food for the sake of the twins. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Am I to die in a sea of sick people I do not know? First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’m so sick, oh, I’m so sick,” Carol moans, twisting her body on the bed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice is bouncing on itself, and I’m sure she’s filling a glass of water in the bathroom for her poor sick mom. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’d stay to help out with this sick person or that until I’d run out of folks who needed help and didn’t mind an extra mouth to feed to get it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I feel sick, but good sick ’cause I’m so full. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes were laced with something dark—almost a sick fascination. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And as for poor Nanny, she began to feel sick the moment she set foot on deck. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my grandmother got sick, my parents came and they stayed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t food that made me sick; it was knowing that I was Space Boy, that I would always be Space Boy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Seven sick persons were scooped up from the streets and deposited at Ricketts’. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I had been defending it for five years and I was sick of it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Just thought I'd come by and see how the sick man is.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not matter because the man on that side had been very sick on the floor several times before. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One of Dora’s girls comes home from a call on a patron too wealthy or too sick to visit the Bear Flag. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be in a museum someday once she dies. She’s sick so it won’t be long before I cash in.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I was very busy. Why didn’t you tell me you were sick?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine months here and I still don’t know if she’s sick in the body or fried up her wits with the hair coloring. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were demons who hid in men’s bodies and made them sick or mad, but those were not the worst. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We’re not sick. We’ll soon be back in our homes. When the rest of the world finds out what the Soviets are doing, they will put an end to all of this.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I just feel a little sick. With the pageant coming up this Saturday, I don’t want to be all messed up for it. Can’t I just take some medicine and rest?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I mean, all I know is you ate like six servings of the stuff. And Celia and I didn’t feel sick.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Any other time I would have been too embarrassed to tell him the truth, but I was so sick of lying that I had an urge to come clean, on this small matter at least. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because I was sick, and even more because Gat never called. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He could enjoy himself in the hospital, just as long as there was no one really very sick in the same ward. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His partner called in sick, so he’s out solo today. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“That sounds as if he really is sick.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

To know that he could betray himself, betray his country again even in sleep, to know that—after everything she’d done—some sick part of him still hungered after her...it was too much. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Well then, what if he reported in sick? The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like someone who was sick but had to pull herself up out of bed anyway. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And why...why was I so frightened now—frightened sick at the thought that sooner or later, I would have to run again? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When by accident she came upon him in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet and crying softly to himself, she knew he was a sick man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean sick in the head, man. Psycho.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was so sick that they had to stab a needle into his spinal cord. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I felt sick and didn’t want to think about what had happened at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Then when? Five years we’ve been married and no children. You’re always sick, tired, this, that. Have you been taking the castor oil?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were darkly shadowed, traces of green veins crawled just underneath her pale skin, and Olanna wondered if she was sick. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I heard your brother was sick,” Laila said to Tariq’s father, dipping a spoon into her bowl of soaked raisins, pistachios, and apricots. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

All around Milton in die boat now guys were already getting sick. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Jaime David was sick and kept waking up, feverish, needing drinks of water. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us escorted the sick and injured to the fairy forest, where we hoped the Mmoatia would agree to help them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Free food never makes me sick. You want some?” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She had a break from the wards when a man coming round from an anesthetic was sick onto her lap and she had to find a clean apron. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of the rules and boundaries. The last thing I want is to become some empty-headed new pretty, having one big party all day.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was in the sixth grade, right after his father first got sick. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Because looks to me like you seen a ghost. You feel sick?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to be sick. ” • comma. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under it all, the calls keep coming from the cage, and my sick feeling gets near to crippling. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And at the same time, she hasn’t stormed out, she hasn’t maintained that it’s just a sick joke someone is playing on her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

That pie is almost a week old, slick mold is growing in the crust, it’ll make him sick. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Oye, pero did you see that there’s going to he a pool on the roof and one on the second floor? How sick is that?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

McCormick would not budge on his decision: he had been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa and he hadn’t gotten sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, but there is nothing unusual in that. I told you, they work together often. Let’s not talk about it any more, I am sick of the subject.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And even though the thought of kissing anyone else had once made her sick, when she saw Dorian... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He said the building was sick and made them sick too, a bit like a virus. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her name's Paula. Her husband is at this moment sitting all by himself in his box under my desk and is worried sick.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is, my cat, Sir Fig Newton, a member of my family for almost six years, is sick. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He’s been a cop for as long as Khalil was alive, and I wonder if in some sick twist of fate Khalil was only born for this man to kill. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I been here nine months. I got sick, and they sent me to the hospital over in the Philippines. You ever been in that hospital?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A feeling, half sick and half rage, blooms in my middle. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve come up with some of my best sketchbook ideas pretending to be sick down there. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be a good thing when it finally does happen, because you kids will get better schooling. Newer books. Teachers with more training. But I swear, I’ll worry myself sick.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Comb your hair and wipe off the makeup. The kohl has run down on your cheeks. I’ll say something we ate in the cinema made you sick.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach is rotating in so many directions I think I'm going to be sick. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"You're here! I thought maybe you were sick when you weren't at my corner." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I opened a PayDay, and the smell of peanuts and caramel, which I usually loved, made me feel sick. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m sick,' Hooper said primly, 'in storms. I always have been sick. At school I’m allowed to go out of form and lie down, if it thunders.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Now it made me sick, knowing there was no way out. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I am nauseated at work, sick with fear about what might be happening at home. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had been thinking about the 1,001 Nights and wondering what would happen if Scheherazade was sick or dizzy one night and fell asleep right in front of the villain king. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sansa had liked that once, but now it made her sick. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It will make them sick, don’t you understand ? Why don’t you try living on it yourself if you don’t believe me ?” “I did try,” admitted Milo gloomily. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Again the light seemed to dim and I felt the sick dizziness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Lynn was sick tonight, Sam was allowed in the bedroom. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By and by I will not get sick; I will refuse to. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Gettysburg he will command a corps, and he will be sick again. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sick of you saying that. No, I owe you, and I’ll always owe you, and I’ll never be able to pay you back, and I hate you.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were home to the monasteries and hospitals where the city's sick used to be brought. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their mama chatted with folks, asking about their sick grandmas and making on over their babies while their redheaded daddy mopped his face with a handkerchief. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“May all your children fall sick! May you outlive every one of them! May the gods heap misfortune on your head!” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve feet away Bloom was hunched over, coughing a little, hawking up phlegm, gasping, trying to calm down so that he wouldn’t be sick. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She served them when they were sick, listened to their troubles, answered them in matters of love, and as soon as she had some, loaned them money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You were a very sick boy,” he says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Occasionally an astronaut had become sick to his stomach in space, and we thought that doing aerobatics might help prevent this. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It says you were missing last week, without a sick note. Last Tuesday.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air filled with the sick odor of warm living entrails. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been getting sick eating all those ribs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They only want healthy people. If you are sick, you won’t be chosen.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Predominantly, it was young Negroes, defiant of whatever might be the consequences, sick and tired of the black man’s neck under the white man’s heel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And stop calling me sir. You look like you’re getting sick.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They lazed under the tree, feeling slightly sick but satisfied. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Burned pinky tips and blistered lips became familiar to her, and once she made herself so sick she could not keep down any food for days. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And despite how guilty and sick it made him feel, Mark also knew he couldn’t possibly go in there to try and help. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I can remember that she hasn't answered, and that makes me sick to my stomach. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was considered too good for ordinary use and only brought out when one of them was sick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is sick so often now, it’s no surprise. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“You were sick,” Viola says, sitting back, knees still on my bed. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was still mourning, he said, still sick, still living partly in another place. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d cut my last two classes to clock an extra hour on my shift card after my boss texted that a lot of people had called in sick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She had operated a candy store until she got sick, after which she mostly slept or sat by the window, looking frail and weak. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they gave out prizes for being sick, Rachel would win the gold bricks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We told the rest of the administration that I was sick with mono. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Lord, no. I think I’m going to be sick. I could have gone without that last part.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Later, while we were talking, I said something was “sick,”and he looked at me kind of starded, as if he’d never heard the word used that way before. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It means someone who’s so stupid that he’s eaten all these pies and gotten really sick—sick like he’s going to throw up all over himself. That sick.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Many were sick, most were starved, and all were doomed to die. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mobs of sick and injured men began ranting incoherently and running and jumping in the aisle as though the building were on fire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had never told Ophelia or his mother he was sick, and I wondered if that was because they would try to make him stop working. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She struggled and wept and called for Isaac, until I was almost sick at having to cause her more pain. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I could still see Uncle Camp, same as if he was laying right there with his brains blowed out, and it made me sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And I watched with a sick fascination, knowing part of the story, yet a part of me fighting against its sad inevitable conclusion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is more, they argued, “we know as many whites who were guilty” of taking advantage of the sick, “but this is looked over, while the blacks are held up to censure.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I’m so sick and tired of being treated like this. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“They are sick of us. They are kicking us out. They are sending us to the East. To resettlement. We will have our own villages. No one but Jews!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Old Celestine came in to say that Madame Ratignolle’s servant had come around the back way with a message that Madame had been taken sick and begged Mrs. Pontellier to go to her immediately. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

One boarding house facing the Delaware River had a sick sailor in nearly every room. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a part of you died when you were sick. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Did they keep their receipts as sick souvenirs? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My heart is hammering so hard I feel sick. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You probably got sick to your stomach when you heard what I did. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I start to feel a little sick at the thought alone. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to make Mother sick in her room.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got sick of my dad working in the same job for basically the same pay. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she’s sick,” I say flatly, feeling a little sick myself. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“This really is pretty amazing,” I whisper to Russ, but he doesn’t answer—he has his hand over his mouth, like he’s trying not to get sick. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t so sick I couldn’t say, “I might need some help doing that, Annie.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Often, when his mother was sick with the coughing, he wished that he, and not Anulika, would cook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked like she was going to be sick. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke was busy all day caring for the sick and the poor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And they were very sick, because the fluid was milky and clouded with dead cells, cells that had exploded. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could make a body sick if you looked straight down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, staring into this blankness, the doctor called, “Are you sick?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His mother carried the baby for five months, and then one night she got terribly sick and an ambulance rushed her to the hospital. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I had been sick I wanted to curl up on the ground and do groaning. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind my back, at the world’s end, my pale slightly glowing fat mother sleeps on, old, sick at heart, in our dingy underground room. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The homeless, the helpless, the sick, the small and lost, all filed past his window. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To even look upon the body of a dead person may make you sick. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whenever they were sick, they would go not only to Doc Hawthorn but also to Sam. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I went to see a demon, a Mister Alger; who manages apartment houses. I have a job, cleaning and fixing things in those houses. I can heal sick machines on the side, too.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the burly guy with the beads—the praying woman’s husband—asked if I was going to get sick, I said I might. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm a very busy man, Chris, I have lots of sick people depending on me. Oh well." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could but it’s making me feel sick. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of it! It’s over! It’s all over!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"I thought he was going to be sick. You weren't bored, were you, Robert?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I’m sick, or having a heart attack, or if I’m going crazy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I want to get away from her and I can think of only one way, to make myself sick and go to the hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That’s why it’s in the germ’s interests to “make us sick.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I reached down and patted him, lying in a duffel on a bus next to his sick boy. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was getting a sick feeling in her stomach. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I saw my child sick for five days. When that child doesn’t die, then you tell God, ‘Thank you.’” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I am sick a lot myself this winter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I’ve seen a lot of people around here with sick brains and they don’t look right or act right.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bless your heart, child, it’s to keep you well. You don’t want to be sick, do you?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “He better find work,” and Big Ma said, “He’s sick.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of the family lives in apartments, so on weekends my uncles gather there to watch football and eat themselves sick. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our moms would usually bring us over to Auggie’s house, since there were a lot of times when he couldn’t go out because he was sick. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A sick kid, running away to climb one of the biggest mountains in North America. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Can you call the school and tell them I'm sick? I had to go home," I say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“But first, we have to avoid those floating rock lasers. Everybody, hang on tight—I need to be sure you’re not rolling about, getting sick over everything.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Sick? He’s not sick. Why would you ask me something like that?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But I know enough to realize that the sick feeling in me is only going to grow, like a seed in the right soil. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I feel a little bad about the trick now, not knowing if some boys who were really sick couldn’t get that medicine because we had gotten it first. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to ask her why I’m not sick yet, but I can’t. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t as if my mother were sick enough to stay in bed. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five days after receiving the letter from Wallace, on June 23, baby Charles got sick with a fever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, um, hitting a tree —” I gulped “— and dying. And then getting sick.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Minerva, who had seen RiRi dangling from the man’s meaty grasp while her arm twisted at a sick angle, was frantic to claw past and into the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When she went back to the house, a small bent-over figure, shivering and shaking, it was obvious that she was really sick. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only minor distraction was Holly Deblin, the new girl, asking if she could go to the sick bay for a bit. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And it makes me feel sick that I have to. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She was sick, she said, of Dad’s ridiculous dreams and his stupid plans and his empty promises. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was no mere social call, and he was almost sick from nerves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But of course I had not been sick in bed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gran had been pretty sick toward the end of her life, and she didn’t have much strength to do things. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sadly I realized Laertes, too, was mad, sick with the contagion of revenge! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My shirt was completely stuck to my back by this time and I was feeling brutal—dizzy, sick to my stomach, my thoughts slow and sticky as flies in Vaseline. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was so sick that it was hard for me to eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weak children, wrinkled old women, the sick and the stupid and the heedless, the cruel land claimed them all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then the rage left him and a sick disgust took its place. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Weather like this make anybody sick. When you going to get done eating, boy.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I got sick of making the paper clip chain, I checked the rest of the drawers looking for something else revealing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

All strangers who passed through the streets of Macondo at that time had to ring their bells so that the sick people would know that they were healthy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That sick sensation is back in my stomach. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m sure we’d have felt differently if we had thought we were hearing ceremonies to cure the sick. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When the girl got sick, the moment Ethel awaited for so long had finally arrived. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When Libby and I workshopped our two-person Fiddler on the Roof, for the private performance we put on for her mom right when she started getting sick, I decided to stage the famous Bottle Dance. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t quite sure why, exactly, except that she was sick of imagining a thousand conversations with him every night before she fell asleep. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I knew it was stupid, because I was sick, but I figured I’d be able to scrounge up something dry to wear among our new Halloween costumes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I said, recalling Doña María, a curandera in Tent City who tried to cure Torito when he was sick. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

On the third day, so many sick prisoners were being brought in that they were lying on the floor. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The welcome feast had made them as sick as volcanoes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling sick to my stomach a lot lately. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a sick kind of way, I love it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we’ll keep having this conversation every single day, over and over again until you are sick to death of hearing it. Until you finally stop.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I know Suesetta is thinking, If Deacon Willis wasn't as sick as Uncle Clyde, will Uncle Clyde die, too? Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The old man felt faint and sick and he could not see well. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then it occurs to me how casually we’re discussing the cold-blooded murder of the sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, she couldn’t stand it any more, and sneaked into the sick rooms to visit us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sick with the way I'd upset him and sick, also, with the way I'd let myself hope for something that didn't exist. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He just stands there looking confused, and for a moment I wonder if he is confused, if in his sick heart he believes his own lies about disciplining me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In Manhattan the Irish were blamed, and the quarantine effort was aimed primarily at weeding out sick Irish immigrants from arriving ships. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The only thing she liked to do indoors was cook and tend the sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Lynn wouldn’t be in trouble because she was sick, and Sam wouldn’t be in trouble because he was hurt. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked sick, like her mouth would taste like the hospital. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned away from the calendar; he felt sick, like a walking shadow, faint and wispy, his sense of balance still swaying from the ride in the cab of the tank truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to help you, but there are hundreds sick and dead. I need assistance. Are there any doctors or nurses in camp?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We were all so sick of those crystallized lumps they choked us in our dreams. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had watched my parents be taken away to their deaths, had avoided Amon Goeth and his dogs, had survived the salt mines of Wieliczka and the sick games of Trzebinia. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sick, but the pit of my stomach was on fire— how could I tell her that? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said when he was in the English army in France the Germans sent gas over which made him so sick they had to take him to the hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Ever since I found out I was sick I feel like I’ve been fighting,” he said, staring out at the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, that was sick but it was better than being cut or shot. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t going to tell Mama that maybe I made myself sick on rootwork and flying. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Abuela used to take me to the beach early in the morning every summer until she got sick.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I had been feeling so sick that day that I wasn’t even thinking about Annie until I saw her in our American Literature class. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They drink themselves sick and numb themselves with poisonous and delightful powders. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And suddenly, feeling near tears myself, I added, “You didn’t even thank me for taking care of you when you were sick.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know Pop had a real reason to be sick. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

His wet wool clung to him sodden and itching, his neck and shoulders ached fiercely from the weight of mail and sword, and he was sick of salt cod, salt beef, and hard cheese. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Of course he didn’t know then how sick he would get of fish. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s do it outside, then. I’m sick of this hunk of junk.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“He would’ve run away before he’d give out his real name, and I couldn’t let that happen. He was sick. He needed to see a doctor.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on a sleeping bag, partly covered, his eyes closed, his head in a mess where he had been sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry felt very sick; when he put up his hand to push his glasses back on, he felt cold sweat on his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I heard the learn’d astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room / How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered how she had felt a little sick to her stomach when Mama had sewn the twenty dollars into her pajama seam. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It won’t make you sick, will it? One never knows with brides.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In some sick way I wish I could get caught so all this lying could be behind me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So when are you getting out of here? I am sick of school without you!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The bus lay on its side like an old sick horse, its broken headlights staring out mournfully into the surrounding trees. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Our weight was such that after they let us go, we spun faster and faster, laughing so hard we felt dizzy and sick. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He wondered how his brother felt, wondered whether now that his passion was chilling he would feel panic or sorrow or sick conscience or nothing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She told me a story about her cousin’s dog who ate corn right off the stalks in her grandaddy’s garden and got so sick he almost died.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I feel sick by the thick smell of gardenia soaps by the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I heard. He been sick. He’s okay now. Congratulations, man. Somebody sent me a link to your stuff.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the passengers in the railway car saw how sick and how young Hari was, they made room for him so that at least he had a seat. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was sick and stayed home from school at his place, he would play quiet, soothing music because he knew the sound traveled upstairs easily. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Papa has been so nice to Amil since he’s been sick, but another spill could change that. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to... be sick. I’m—” I grab the garbage can, watch as Miss Celia vomits over it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He’d seen other people’s wounds turn nasty, sick with rot and gangrene; seen their stumps crawling with maggots where they’d gone bad after having an amputation. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Serena was afraid that in her absence the boy might have grown much sicker. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

An ache was on the top of his stomach, an apprehension that was like a sick thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And you poor mother and her sick baby. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was so sick to my stomach from the aroma that I decided to spend the early morning hours outdoors. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, it seems to her, Jorge boarded the plane for New York, sick and shrunken in an ancient wheelchair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Or we could just take Needles to a church and do the whole, my brother is sick with a syndrome and we don't have no clothes, please help, bit." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She got sick really fast, so they couldn’t hide the truth from me for long. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so sick, so wrong, but all I wanted to do was slip inside his mind and see what he was thinking. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He drank until he thought he would be sick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He thinks it’s sick and awesome too, just like me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. You ask a great many questions for a sick boy.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What kind of a sick person would eat all of Jesus’s body and drink all of Jesus’s blood?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dr. Fiona had to go take care of her other patients, children who were sicker than I was, but I had one last question. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What if she were sick—dying, even—alone in her house? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t inconsolable; he was sick with forbidden magic and unable to perform all the Uncle’s duties because he wasn’t as strong as him. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then Balthamos stood up, sick and weary and full of pain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her voice was so small and quiet, I had to lean close and smell the sick on her breath. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was sick with searing hatred, and in the endless vortex through which he whirled, there was no comfort. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a long run, they would fall down onto the ground and some would be sick. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of them made a number of visits but spent more time performing autopsies on dead bodies than ministering to the sick. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

If we did get a vegetable, we would usually have the same one for weeks on end, until the carrots or cabbage were old and moldy and we were thoroughly sick of them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Annie hadn’t been so sick, the trip would have been exciting. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to a Brazilian restaurant by the lagoon, where the waiter brought skewer after skewer stacked with meat and seafood, until Ifemelu told him that she was about to be sick. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It made me sick, and all I wanted to do was get out of there, out of Mississippi, and back home where things and people weren’t so crazy. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m so sick of these answers that don’t answer anything. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then she got sick and I had to take care of her.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wore himself out in this senseless cycle, became old and sick. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We are. But you know my mother is sick, Ranee." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He said softly, “I’ve been expecting you more or less. I suppose you feel sick about all this.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“You used to pore over them for hours, when you were sick in bed.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I taste hot liquid, bile and bitter wine, in my mouth, and I run upstairs to be sick. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so many sick monkeys running around it, the island could have become a focus for monkey viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few people knew how sick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can borrow it if someone in your family is sick. I can ride it if you help me get started.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, but I feel a little sick to be congratulated for that. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We walk among the sick only when tending them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the alley and pressed against the wall, sick with fright. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had heard of things you ought to do to people, breathe into their mouths or pump their arms up and down, somehow, but he thought that if Hooper was sick he must be breathing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t turn around, just push down the hallway, through the door, then down the path, landing on the sidewalk, panting, sick to my stomach. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Like if you miss a lesson because you’re out sick or gazing out thinking about what it would feel like to be really loved back, the teachers don’t stop class to reteach you. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This is some sick joke or a dream. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I remembered how sick I got last time I drank too much, so I told Joe I didn’t want to drink anything. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold in the car, I was tired, and I hadn’t eaten—I was almost sick. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

To reduce the fever in a sick baby, to halt the brutalities of an overseer, to deliver one from a host of slave hells. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This didn’t sound too good, and I got sick of By teasing me so I let the Earth orbit by itself. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, man. It’s not some Logan County monster, nothing like that. He’s sick. Or he will be.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"I hope not. I'm sick of looking at those ears of yours." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“If you are going to be sick again, the house would be better.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They used tools and fire, were good hunters, and apparently took care of their sick and infirm. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick to death of those stupid rules,” I said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

No one can anticipate death, not even when people are very sick; when they take their last breath, it’s still the punch in the gut that you can never be ready for. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mark was sick, but not the kind of sick that makes you bleed. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But in her sick thought sweet sleep overtook her, and she dozed off, her body slack and still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I certainly trust you not been waiting long. So many folks been coming that us thought it wise to untach the bell. You gentlemens just let me take you hats—Father been mighty sick.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If Mother is any sicker than she was when she came down to dinner, all right,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew her sick from the disease that would not go, her legs bunched under the yellow sheets, the bones gone limp as worms. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And the wounded and the sick of the Night's Watch are in your charge." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it had not made her sick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Harding was out sick, and on my way to the cafeteria, JT cornered me in the hall. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His freckles stand out jarringly against the sick paleness of his skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Why you cry? till Mam is at me again.Your sister is sick in my arms and you’re there whining and whinging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Part of my father still seemed to be in Wuchang, which must have been why he looked so sick and why he didn’t seem to hear the knock on the living-room door. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she did speak of him it always began with reverence and ended with sadness, with her saying, “I never knew how sick he was.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to cap it all, Darling got sick. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She wanted to know why you haven’t been at school. I told her you were sick.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Will you turn it off for a sick man?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not quite rotten. Just gone off, so you wouldn’t yet notice, but eat it and get sick.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The three-year-old was only getting sicker, wasting away before everyone’s eyes, as the mutant germs flourished. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Etty kept getting sick; she was, at seventeen, an invalid, very weak and at times close to death. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me too. I was getting sick of hanging out alone.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as we was ten feet from the shop, the smells of the place started me feeling sick for home. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I remember in third grade when you first wore it. I thought you had lost all your hair, like you were sick or something. Isn’t that crazy?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

All I have to do is remember her hand on my forehead when she’d ask me something like, “Baby, are you sick? Have you got a temperature?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A million years ago, when I was about five, I got sick in the wintertime. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Matt could plan his move carefully, perhaps even take Maria with him.The sick fears of the previous night had vanished, and he felt like a king: Matt the Conqueror. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to get to work a little early today. One of the girls has a sick baby at home. Don’t let me find out you’ve been out that door. Understood?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Though his vision was still cloudy, he could see the doctor going from cot to cot, giving the sick men shots. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he was sick of mummery, so instead he grimaced, signed^ and handed the scroll back to Brown Ben. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In over three years running the gas station, Baba had never called in sick. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then you’d get sick of Dad and we’d go down the twin slides at the same time, over and over again. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It felt strange to be speeding through the streets of this neighborhood where I didn’t belong, in a truck where I didn’t belong, with my brother hurt and my sister sick. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A number of the animals had already died—there were many empty cages in the room—and many of the other animals were obviously sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been too sick to work, and the factory sent the police, and when Helena didn’t know where I was, they beat her.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I was really sick, but I forced myself to go through the entire...” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. Do you feel sick?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But he relentlessly refused to admit her to his sick room. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I brought the jacket for you. I didn’t want you to get sick or something.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

While the grown-ups were all yelling, and the other kids were making themselves sick on doughnuts, I whipped out my Army knife screwdriver and took off the doorknob. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, she didn’t bother telling him that she was feeling sick. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank was still clutching his stomach like he was going to be sick. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fern shouted, “It’s Papa!” and I felt sick all over again. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And you taste the rust of it and it makes you sick. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Kate was a sick ghost, crooked and in some way horrible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told Rachel to straighten up because right now she had her hands full with Ruth May sick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He feels weak and sick; he longs for sun and warmth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then I smelled the honeysuckle-sweet sick odor that told me it was time for Finn to go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The roof leaks, the garage floods, and slugs or take her daughter to the doctor when she gets sick. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It's a sick and horrible story but right now, I'd rather kill Hangman that way than let him kill me tomorrow morning. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to stop, I really did, but it took some time for my sick amusement to fade. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, I'm sick now. I'm not going to work tonight. Call Beatty for me.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Osh told me so. Just hours old. How could I have gotten sick so fast?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her house is famous for its dramatic displays, but I’d bet they’re scaling back this year, with Mrs. Jones so sick. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Drink it,” my mother says in a voice that reminds me of when I was home sick from grade school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He and other people at the company had been cutting into sick monkeys since October—and yet no one had become sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it had gone, the fear Malcolm had been holding down since he stabbed Bonneville came back, and he had to lean forward and be sick. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So, even though the man is a stranger and I am afraid of him, I am worrying about his being sick, and the idea that he might die makes me feel quite desperate. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Resourceful girl, that one. Found her way back, told me the whole story. She’s worried sick, you know.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was worried sick himself about the draft call that he knew was soon to come. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would shoot me too if we fell behind, even though I wasn’t the sick one. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis had the sick ones arranged in their bedding, blankets pulled neatly up to their chins, mats clean on the floor all around the fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mother is sick with waves in her stomach even though the ship barely creeps along. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I bet I’m going to be sick at my stomach before I get out of this,” said Stuart. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The boys at the post office say sick people like Theresa know there’s little time left and that makes them mad for love and romance and everything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My dad left before I got sicker and sicker, before the CF could take a toll on my body. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick over the whole thing,” Mama muttered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Only to have him get sick again after the first night there. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, what with your daughter sick and all, but we’ve got to lock this girl up.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Amari didn’t try to find any more berries or fruit, worried that she would make them all sick again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom never left work early unless I was sick and needed to be picked up from school, and even that didn’t happen very much. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The heat belowdecks is hellish with the smell of sweat and sick. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But you’ve got to remember, Charles is sick now. He’s not himself. And the thing is, I believe he knows it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The last time he drank oasis water, he’d been deathly sick. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a short time he was going to be very sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had gotten so sick that Cool Papa had come off the road for good to stay with her. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I walked over to Henry D.’s desk and asked him, “Where is everybody? Are they all sick?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember when you had bronchitis and were too sick to go to that skit a bunch of us put on in second grade?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A sick feeling came over me, and I wondered how close my father had come to something far worse than a fistfight. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure, but before she got “sick,” that was what she did. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he recognizes Doktè Paul and he’s not so insistent on his price after Farmer points out, “And if you get sick, I won’t ask you for a hundred dollars.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Why do you care? You left her behind! What, are you scared she’s going to sneak into your camp and make you all sick? She’s jine. There’s nothing wrong with her!” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Axelroot said if I told, why then God would make Mama get sick and die. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sick hoax, and the Red Cross bought into the Nazi propaganda. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The bridge was full of people: the elderly and sick, men and women in rags, leaning on canes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he’s pretty sick,” he said at last. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when she was sick, she usually begged our mother to let her go to school. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their captors were still kneeling, faces lowered in some kind of sick worship of the man writhing in pain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I am not angry. But you should not have flown off like that. You could have gotten hurt, or worse. I was worried sick!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Tell him about those things Bunny bought with your credit cards while you were sick.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The warring love and hatred—love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people—that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Why don't you just take your sick humor and go away... Bobby." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sick in bed yet or are you up? I wish that I could hear from you.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So he must be very sick to get such special treatment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, I would always become sick thinking he would someday climb on top of me and do his business. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corporal said, “I’m going to be sick.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I get sick and tired of you two always talkin’ ’bout Rob! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t going to be bullied about this, especially not after he skipped out on them with the kids still sick. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Facedown, too weak to move, sick and shaking, Harry opened his eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The concern in his eyes made me nearly sick with self-loathing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman took up the whole doorway, “Then Bailey ought not to be in there with her. Unless you want a house full of sick children.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I never heard whether he became sick or was ever adopted. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Charles knew that Emma was torn about leaving Maer, and leaving her sister Elizabeth alone to care for her sick parents. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fie is sick, his face and feet are swollen, as are hers and their baby’s. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first instinct to prove that Fig was sick was to consult an expert. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Half sick and in despair, my mother made the rounds of the charitable institutions, seeking help. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did manage to nod off, his sleep was haunted by “disturbing and frightful dreams. The scenes of them were derived altogether from sick rooms and grave-yards.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“When your mother got sick, doctors just did what they wanted and patients didn’t ask. But nowadays patients want to know what’s going on.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For a few days I lay flat on my back, hardly able to blink without feeling like my forehead was splitting open, and everything sick and black. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Please. We’re awfully tired, and my sister is sick. Couldn’t we come in?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even after he went to work for the Greenbrier, neighbors black and white would call on him to see sick horses through a period of crisis. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What come to mind was that one the pups must’ve got sick or maybe even died. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t keep on giving Matt foxglove, though. It’s much too dangerous. I needed something that would make him sick, but not too sick. Then someone told me about monarch butterflies.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s crazy sick,” the woman said, talking to Jule’s back. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I was younger and I got sick, my parents wouldn’t let Lynn in the room with me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You were so sick. We knew you would have enough challenges as it was, and we honestly didn’t think you’d ever be able to go to school again.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Jimmy felt a bit sick to his stomach. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every time I thought about how I had agreed to talk during our presentation, I felt sick. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he might be sick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You knew he was playing a sick game. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The whole thing is so sick,” said Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My sister stood behind me and said, “Is this some kind of sick joke?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you sick?” called Fidelito s voice from a distance as he rode on the harvester. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby, still train sick, was crying in Mother’s arms. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z