Her eyes with scalding-rheum were gall'd, and red. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Take this hare's scut to wipe the rheum from your eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Take this hare's tail to wipe the rheum from your eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights] Reference
Less than a rheum, think of me to-day, dear Lionel, and take. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Our young Princess says her husband has a rheum in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
His other eye appeared to be more than half obscured by rheum. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
The next day, Drew sits at a downtown bar with rheum in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Social Scene: precariously back together again - Arts & Culture - Macleans.ca] Reference
"A defluxion of rheum," Tas repeated the words slowly, savoring them. From Wordnik.com. [The Soulforge]
H after r has no sound or use; as in rheum, rhyme; pronounced reum, ryme. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
So cheek by jowl we drool a common rheum that stultifies not one but all. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
His weak eyes dripped rheum down his cheeks, which were red from years of drinking. From Wordnik.com. [Streets of Laredo] Reference
That very night a rheum fell into his eyes so that within a few days he became stark blind. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference
One whose eyes, as much as can be seen of them, are streaky fat floating in semi-liquid rheum. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Yes, yes, my lord the king, answered Gargantua, I can rhyme gallantly, and rhyme till I become hoarse with rheum. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
He himself was feverish as if some rheum of winter troubled him as he crept along the passage, un - sure of his powers even yet. From Wordnik.com. [Merlin's Mirror]
He had taken a rheum that did not leave him, and was subject to bouts of fever and chills that were not for an armsman in the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Gryphon]
Must is an instance of this, and the matter in boils when it becomes purulent, and tears when they become rheum, and so with the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
And rheum may plague, not me, but Sestius 'self 20. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
His nails they were his meat, his rheum the drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Oh, thou horrid spectre of the old, rheum-eyed man!. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
Nor eyes in rheum, through midnight watching, drowned. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Thy rheum, Cob! thy humour, thy humour -- thou misstak'st. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
They were also used for rheum, as appears from a passage in. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
With a bestial droop of the lip and a swinish rheum in the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads] Reference
But, pray where is the man who is always suffering from a rheum?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Nay, I have my rheum, and I can be angry as well as another, sir. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
His face was a blackened horror, from his eyelids the salt rheum ran. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference
The streets were swept of mire; eaves ceased to distil their sooty rheum; even in the back-ways of. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
The taunts of his enemies about "the lack-lustre eye, guttering with prevalent rheum" did not pass unfelt. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
Only for want of sleep, and drinking of strong beer had a rheum in one of my eyes, which troubled me much. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
Foolish rheum, how now, 79. thing, never says a, 279. things to confound the wise, 845. whistling of a name, 262. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
But this canyon seemed to waken like an old man, with rheum and stiffness of the joints, with heaviness, and a dull, malignant mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
Up, my eye mightily out of order with the rheum that is fallen down into it, however, I by coach endeavoured to have waited on my Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
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