be sick vs dry-heave

be sick

verb
  • To vomit. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: be sick. 

dry-heave

verb
  • To attempt to vomit with the ejection of only gas. 

noun
  • An attempt to vomit that ejects only gas. 

How often have the words be sick and dry-heave occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )