Oppy clutched his chest and gasped rheumatically for air. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
The water hissed and splashed, as the wheels of the steamer began to turn rheumatically. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Little resort towns with white beaches and forlorn jetties wheel abeam rheumatically slow. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
A warm welcome awaited me in the cabin, and a comfortable bed with plenty of blankets restored me for a while to health, though in all likelihood my perilous flight from Digby and its horrors, will ache rheumatically in my limbs till the hour of my death. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
James, the cat, stalked rheumatically at her side. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Money] Reference
Barney Bill rose too, rheumatically, and laid both hands on the young man's shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunate Youth] Reference
The horses, stiff and sore after their long journey, stalked rheumatically down the gangway. From Wordnik.com. [The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West] Reference
And he advanced, a little rheumatically, to us, holding out his hand with morning greetings. From Wordnik.com. [My Young Alcides] Reference
He shook his head, bent rheumatically, and seated himself on the veranda step, full in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [Special Messenger] Reference
ONE Sunday afternoon late in July old Henry Biltmer was rheumatically descending into the head of the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
V ONE Sunday afternoon late in July old Henry Biltmer was rheumatically descending into the head of the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather] Reference
One or two stiff-legged flies crawled rheumatically along the window glass, only to fall on their backs and lie there buzzing. From Wordnik.com. [In the Quarter] Reference
"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying!" chuckled Sir John, and leaned back rheumatically in his chair and mumbled over the jest. From Wordnik.com. [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference
When he has stowed all away, in he climbs rheumatically, and off we trundle, rattling and wheezing along, for driver and horses and 'bus are all in the last stages of decrepitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
He advanced, holding open his notebook and pencil, and having saluted us with a stiff bow and an old-fashioned flourish of his hat, shook hands rheumatically and waited for us to speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
"Oh, I'll be home time fer Sunday-school," he promised gaily, and was off down the road in the darkness, his old wheel squeaking rheumatically with each revolution growing fainter and fainter in the night. From Wordnik.com. [The City of Fire] Reference
As the Dead Man came up the walk between the trim beds of rain-soaked flowers, the old dog crawled rheumatically to its feet, the bleared eyes brightening, the feathered tail awag in joyous greeting to the loved master who had been so long and so unaccountably absent. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play] Reference
Quite alone now, for it was closing time, Mother Bonneton had shuffled off rheumatically after a cutting word -- she knew better than to ask what had happened -- and the old sacristan, lantern in hand and Caesar before him, was making his round of the galleries, securing doors and windows. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Wall] Reference
He knelt down rheumatically upon one knee. From Wordnik.com. [Pied Piper]
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