Oppy clutched his chest and gasped rheumatically for air. ❋ Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- (1986)
Little resort towns with white beaches and forlorn jetties wheel abeam rheumatically slow. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
The water hissed and splashed, as the wheels of the steamer began to turn rheumatically. ❋ Helen Beecher Long (N/A)
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. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
James, the cat, stalked rheumatically at her side. ❋ Unknown (1928)
The horses, stiff and sore after their long journey, stalked rheumatically down the gangway. ❋ Robert J. C. Stead (1919)
"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. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
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. ❋ Unknown (1918)
ONE Sunday afternoon late in July old Henry Biltmer was rheumatically descending into the head of the canyon. ❋ Unknown (1915)
V ONE Sunday afternoon late in July old Henry Biltmer was rheumatically descending into the head of the canyon. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Barney Bill rose too, rheumatically, and laid both hands on the young man's shoulders. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Thereupon he arose rheumatically, carefully dusted his gay checkered suit, gave much attention to the crease in his jaunty little hat, adjusted his bright blue tie, daintily tapped his cuffs back into his coat sleeves and bestowed a beaming, cherubic smile upon Wanda. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)
It had ceased raining, but the wind, as on that first night, was howling and whining about the eaves, the shutters rattled and the old house creaked and groaned rheumatically. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
"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. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
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. ❋ Unknown (1902)
One or two stiff-legged flies crawled rheumatically along the window glass, only to fall on their backs and lie there buzzing. ❋ Unknown (1899)
He shook his head, bent rheumatically, and seated himself on the veranda step, full in the moonlight. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The old man's legs were so stiffened that they had to help him out and rheumatically he walked through the portals of stone-walled disgrace. ❋ Opie Percival Read (1895)
