downsinking

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I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
"From the earliest time, young gentlemen, this region has been subject to uprising or downsinking.

The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks Or, the Secret of Ruby Mountain Frank Gee Patchin 1893