QUALM in a Sentence

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For QUALM, below is one of 13 sentences:
With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUALM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
qualm
 n.  sudden feeling of sickness or faintness; sudden attack of illness
Classic Sentence:
1  A cold qualm of guilt assailed Scarlett at the thought of Ellen's consternation, should she ever learn of her daughter's scandalous conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Scarlett had no qualm of conscience as she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  That he was Suellen's fiance caused her no qualm of conscience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness: he shut his mouth tight and nodded.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
5  And at the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
6  With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
7  Probably, thought Scarlett, because Sally and Young Miss were too afraid of the porcelain-frail but indomitable old Grandma to dare voice any qualms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  But she had no qualms in trusting him with a convict gang.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  But in Princess Drubetskaya's case he felt, after her second appeal, something like qualms of conscience.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  My main qualm is the lack of consistency and logical plotting.
2  Despite my qualms, I took the job.
3  The manager has no qualms about dropping players who do not perform well.
4  Unscrupulously seducing the daughter of his host, Don Juan felt no qualms about the immorality of his licentious behavior.