Sentence examples for sickly nature from inspiring English sources

The secret police arrive and make less than delicate inquiries of Magda, John's mother (or is it her mother? the libretto has it both ways) and much is made of the sickly nature of the Sorel infant (foreshadowing!) So Magda heads off to the consulate where, like the beginning of Casablanca, she waits.

As Cole Porter, he wanders around in "Night and Day" looking politely oblivious; he's afraid to cut loose and be himself, yet he's too constrained to suggest anything resembling Cole Porter, so the hero seems to have a sickly, joyless nature.

"The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people," Jefferson wrote, "and is a Tory by nature".

So sickly!

Very sickly.

A sickly childhood.

Its economy is sickly.

Sickly, dependent in-laws.

A sickly yellow.

He was too sickly.

"Thin, sickly, pale".