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Definition of Sickliest
1. sickly [adj] - See also: sickly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickliest
Literary usage of Sickliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"justice to impart vigour to the sickliest frame. But it was no such holiday-errand
which saw Battista di Rossi and his family established at San Rocca. ..."
2. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the by Frederick Law Olmsted (1862)
"I then asked her to show me which were the sickliest, and she did not point to
any of the ... "Well, dey do say, master, dat de yellow ones is de sickliest, ..."
3. A Journey in the Back Country by Frederick Law Olmsted (1860)
"I then asked her to show me which were the sickliest, and she did not point to
any of the ... Well, dey do say, master, dat de yellow ones is de sickliest, ..."
4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1835)
"... themselves being judges, it is not only the sickliest part of the coast, but
the sickliest part of the whole earth. missionaries : and the other is, ..."
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