What is "seasickness"

Usage examples of "seasickness".

His long bout with seasickness and his general hatefulness had made me forget, in our days at the gymnasium, Cassini had a well-earned reputation as a brave man.

During the first few days, several of the dogs also suffered seasickness.

It was true that Hilma had felt a faint tremour of seasickness on the ferry-boat coming from the city to the Oakland mole.

He was lying near at hand, overwhelmed with grief and seasickness, and watching and listening with all his might for the amorous encounter he suspected us of engaging in.

Peter Port, taking care not to go at any speed, Aunt Beatrix having assured him that she was prone to seasickness.

Mustapha had lived all his long life on Cachalot, and those who are born to that world know less of seasickness than a worm does of Andromeda.

And if the drug in his bloodstream slurred his speech just a trifle and put a flush in his cheeks, everyone assumed it was only the beginnings of the usual Sunrunner seasickness.

And if the next time we speak, I feel the least trace of dranath in you It's a long way to Snowcoves, Father, I'd be half-dead of seasickness before we got there.

Apart from the havoc a rough sea might cause to the fleet, seasickness could leave the troops helpless long before they even set foot on the beaches.

Since the sharpshooters were perched on the fighting tops at the topmast crosstrees or lashed into the ratlines with safety harnesses, they were not only moving in three dimensions, they were moving very broadly in three dimensions, swaying back and forth, up and down, in a manner which, had they not become inured to it already, would have guaranteed seasickness.

Solomon, who had already suffered seasickness after embarking at Gallipolis, spent those days in continuous bouts of vomiting, but he could vomit very little because the party had been able to swallow very little, and it was lucky they had provided themselves with an ample supply of water before facing this predicament.

That much I had gleaned from snatches of then conversation before the seasickness robbed them of talk and dignity.

It was a source of unending frustration to Harford that most people just assumed sailors and marines were immune to seasickness.

He looks so pathetic that Shaftoe considers offering him some m-m-m-morphine, which induces a mild nausea of its own but holds back the greater nausea of seasickness.

During breaks in the storm, the forlorn missionaries had seen blunt and brutal Tierra del Fuego to the north and had retired to freezing berths, huddling together in fear and seasickness.