He was as tall as Conan, though not so heavy-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
We made love like people underwater, heavy-limbed and slow. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
He interested me as his type always does -- a fine upstanding fellow he was; over six feet tall, broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped, heavy-limbed, the perfect fighting man, brown-faced, blue-eyed and tawny-haired. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
One is large-boned and heavy-limbed, hoarse-voiced, and masculine, like the “Ibos” of Bonny and New Calabar, who equal the men in weight and stature, strength and endurance, suggesting a mixture of the male and female temperaments. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
So she was presently seated, with her heavy-limbed Roland at her feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
Jeremy Herrin's production above a rather heavy-limbed sort of ordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
The soul that lay dreaming in this way was the soul of a heavy-limbed, ungracious woman. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
One is large-boned and heavy-limbed, hoarse-voiced, and masculine, like the "Ibos" of Bonny and New. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
Heavy-eyed and heavy-limbed, the boys still stuck to it, and looked eagerly forward towards the accomplishment of their work. From Wordnik.com. ["The Pomp of Yesterday"] Reference
Nobody gets to be an octogenarian without sometimes feeling heavy-limbed and in need of a prop usually in the form of a chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Shortly after entered Saul, overwhelmed with confusion at the impertinence of that heavy-limbed warrior, who had defied him and all his people. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter II. Book I] Reference
But not one of all them seemed to pay the slightest attention to his request; for there he hung, the same heavy-limbed, big-headed, be-clubbed, and be-blanketed Ko-ko as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends] Reference
They called him "the little limber Frenchman," in allusion to a peculiarity of gait which in the minds of the heavy-limbed mountaineers was somehow associated with the idea of a French dancing master. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
Benumbed and heavy-limbed, she watched the gulls as they poised against the currents of air, hanging suspended and almost motionless for an instant, and then with unerring precision swooping down into the dark water and reappearing with their prey dangling in their beaks. From Wordnik.com. [Steadfast Falters] Reference
Her body was heavy-limbed and liquid, a rather pleasant sensation, as if she’d just imbibed of strong spirits. From Wordnik.com. [My Devilish Scotsman] Reference
A heavy-limbed willow, which overhung a rock on which I had often sat to watch the freshets of spring, rose up while we looked at it, and with a surging heave, as if lifted by an earthquake, toppled back, and was swept rushingly away. '". From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
But the traveler who travels only to travel, and has the means and spirit to find pleasure wherever he goes, thinking only of what he sees, enjoys to its fullest extent the luxurious seat of the hired, white-damask-lined carriage, drawn by stalwart, heavy-limbed, coal-black horses, with sweeping tails, the white foam flying from the champed silver bits, the whole turn-out driven by a handsome, white-gloved, black-coated Roman. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
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