He also becomes even more frail and sickly than before. In the background is an old woman lying on a bed, pale and apparently sickly. The result she described as nauseating and "too sickly for words". Sometimes it's magical and sometimes it's sickly and overwrought. Wilberforce was a small, sickly and delicate child with poor eyesight. De Quincey was a weak and sickly child. The impoverished Wheatley had a sickly infant son. Born prematurely, Johannes claimed to have been weak and sickly as a child. Quite sickly and collapses if too strained. Mothers may eat any dead or sickly offspring. As a child, Stephen was often sickly and afflicted by constant colds. He grew to be sickly of health and diffident of temperament. "Walghe" means "tasteless", "insipid", or "sickly", and "voghel" means "bird". Children who were physically or mentally disabled or sickly were difficult to find homes for. Although a sickly child, he would survive into robust old age.