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Word: sicken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/7/1897 | See Source »

...seniors, appealing to them to fulfil well the responsibility of choice that rested upon them; to remember that only one type of life can survive, and that, the highest type of all life. Work, and that only, will end in becoming a torture; pleasure, and that only, will finally sicken; the study of men and the knowledge of God which it brings is the only thing fit to occupy a man's life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baccalaureate Sermon. | 6/19/1893 | See Source »

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