Heavy Limbed

During the afternoon Lena felt heavy-limbed and near sleep, as if she might be coming down with something. ❋ DOUG MAGEE (2010)

Kananbala woke the next morning, heavy-limbed, yet hollowed out by the dark space within her. ❋ Anuradha Roy (2008)

We made love like people underwater, heavy-limbed and slow. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

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. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

He was as tall as Conan, though not so heavy-limbed. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

PRINCE ROGER'S STRANGE LITTLE STORY Beauty was lifted to her feet roughly by Mistress Lockley, who, twisting Beauty's wrists behind her back, forced her out the back door into a large grassy yard of heavy-limbed fruit trees. ❋ Rice, Anne (1984)

Most trees with yellow, smooth bark and small heavy-limbed tops, perhaps partially dead, are mature regardless of their size. ❋ Edward Tyson Allen (N/A)

Shortly after entered Saul, overwhelmed with confusion at the impertinence of that heavy-limbed warrior, who had defied him and all his people. ❋ Unknown (1917)

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. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Cramped and heavy-limbed, he felt his way across the room and lit a candle. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)

Adoree Demorest, still in her glittering, hybrid costume, but heavy-limbed and dull with fatigue, paused outside her own door early that morning. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

So she was presently seated, with her heavy-limbed Roland at her feet. ❋ Unknown (1907)

So many animals had already been removed from these bluffs that we were not very sanguine of finding more; but after a fortnight our prospecting was rewarded by finding parts of skeletons of the long-limbed dinosaur _Diplodocus_ and of the heavy-limbed dinosaur ❋ William Diller Matthew (1900)