His soldiership became Sicklied o'er when he went beyond the parade ground.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
It soon becomes Sicklied over with doubt and despondency; and, at last, the only hope of the proposer is, that his proposal, when realized, will not be an ignominious failure.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
He was much dissatisfied, perhaps disappointed, with his experience of public life; and with his high-wrought and over-refining views of the deficiencies of others more prominent, he was in a humour to mingle also censure of himself, for having yielded too much to the doubts and scruples that often, in the early part of their career, beset the honest and sincere, in the turbulent whirl of politics, and ever tend to make the robust hues that should belong to action "Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton