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“Psyche” has a most decided green-sickness; and I am at
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We Germans will cure the green-sickness of the world.
Greenmantle 2005
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There is some meaning in the old theory about wild oats; and a man who has not had his green-sickness and got done with it for good, is as little to be depended on as an unvaccinated infant.
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Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!
Romeo and Juliet 2004
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I joined the Army simply out of that green-sickness of the mind from which so many young men suffer, and some nebulous notions of heroism in falling against a savage foe in some place not geographically defined.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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After _Pauline_ -- rejected utterance of his green-sickness -- the wan, the wistful, moods of love find seldom recognition; there are no withdrawals "from all fear" into the woman's arms, and no looking up,
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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By all accounts it was a bad case of green-sickness, as such late cases are.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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The only remedy for this green-sickness in youth is physical exercise -- action, work and bodily occupation.
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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She cures rheumatisms, ruptures, and broken shins in men; green-sickness, obstructions, and fits of the mother, in women; the king's evil, chincough, and chilblains, in children: in short, she has cured more people in and about
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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In his first novel Goethe burned out for himself this girlish green-sickness, and by a more vigorous demand began to take what he wanted from the world.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
Gammerstang commented on the word green-sickness
(noun) - (1) A disease incident to virgins.
--Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, 1806
(2) A disease in which the person has a sickly paleness, with a green tinge of the complexion, chiefly confined to unmarried females.
--James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884
(3) The principal means to be employed in the cure of this disease are gentle exercise in the open air, with nutritious and rather stimulating diet, sea-bathing, and agreeable society.
--Leo de Colange's Zell's Popular Encyclopedia, 1871
January 16, 2018