But there is no Sickliness in his poetry, and he retained a charming playful humor-displayed in his excellent comic ballad, John Gilpin; and Mrs. Browning has sung of him, "How when one by one sweet sounds and wandering lights departed He bore no less a loving face, because so broken-hearted."
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
At the time of the marriage, Celeste was seen to be a little woman, fair and faded almost to Sickliness, fat, slow, and silly in the countenance.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
Denham observes also that to account for the Sickliness of Mourzuk was a very difficult matter, and required a wiser head than his.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson