"Seasick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... neighbours had all respected Mrs. Ball in the house next door for the terrific manifestations of her abandonment to the grief of widowhood. "Tits, tits, puir body!" they had said with zestful reverence, and yet the woman had been behaving exactly as if she was seasick. She preferred the impersonal pang. It was right. Right as the furniture in the Chambers Museum was, as the clothes in Redfern's window in Princes Street were, as this stranger was. And it had a high meaning ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... wouldn't like the ocean as well. I went to Havana last winter—on business for my father—and had a very rough passage. The steamer pitched and tossed, making us all miserably seasick." ...
— The Young Adventurer - or Tom's Trip Across the Plains • Horatio Alger
... in no manner abashed. "I'm not seasick. Just undergoing redecoration inside. At present I have a beautiful greenish-orange feeling in my lower hold; in an hour or so it'll change to purplish-pink and my face will change from yellow to green. ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle
... in the banks near St. Maurice-en-Valais, the wind catches us, quite a squall. The lake becomes a sea. At the first roll an Englishwoman becomes seasick. She casts an expiring glance upon Chillon, the ancient towers of which are being lashed by the foam. Her husband does not think it worth his while to cease reading his guide-book or focusing his field-glass ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin
... Cahoon to be seasick," she announced, "would be a disgrace. Our men folks for four generations would turn over ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
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