‘This is a cruel thing that old age should be rheumaticky,’ said he. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It was the most rheumaticky place in England, and some fine day the whole habitable part (to call it habitable) would fetch away bodily and go down the slope into the river. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Her sole diversion was tending her mother; undertaking the countless odd jobs the old lady and her rheumaticky maidservant had need of. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Yet she pauses as if to warm her knobbed, her rheumaticky hands at the bonfire which flares away with streams of sparks and bits of blown paper. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If not nimbly trotting about the house, in aid of the rheumaticky old servant, she liked best to sit still and do nothing; which Richard said made her a most soothing companion. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At the sound of approaching steps, Mrs. Bantry reassumed an erect position with a few creaks and winces, her hobby had made her rheumaticky, wiped her hot brow with an earth-stained hand and welcomed her friend. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1976)
"You're a heedless, disobedient pair," said the wrathful Sanders, "and if I'm blamed for your taking to your beds and gettin 'rheumaticky fever and inflammation of the lungs, it won't be my fault, and I shall tell the missus so!" ❋ Amy Le Feuvre (N/A)
Mr. Dickey broke the spell by suddenly rising, with the exclamation, "I think we're cooled off about enough; and, as I'm a little rheumaticky to-night, I'll shut that door, if you've none of you no objections." ❋ Various (N/A)
I should like a box full of baby-clothes and flannel for the old rheumaticky women, whose garments are all worn out. ❋ Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson (N/A)
They were followed by the old caretaker, hurrying as fast as his rheumaticky limbs would permit, and, wonder of wonders! ❋ Lucy M. Blanchard (N/A)
"Die a rheumaticky old maid?" she said, nervously. ❋ Helen Bagg (1935)
There was a sound as of a rheumaticky hen stirring in its nest. ❋ Coningsby Dawson (1921)
Be off, I say, to your mushy-squshy, rheumaticky bog. ❋ Abbie Farwell Brown (1899)
What am I to do when I'm old and rheumaticky and the Chief does three on the buzzer? ❋ Herbert George Jenkins (1899)
He collared a third of my salary for ever so long; and now that the old chap's rheumaticky and worn out, I-- oh, it's not worth mentioning. ❋ Arthur Wing Pinero (1894)
His rheumaticky feet, tired with balancing that squat body for many years upon the decks of small coasters, and made sore by miles of tramping upon the flagstones of the dock side, had hurried up in time to avert a ridiculous catastrophe. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
"How in the name of mercy is he goin 'to raise any child, when there ain't no women folks about his house' ceptin 'old Marier, an' she so blind an 'rheumaticky that she kin sca'cely git about?" ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)
The secretary was a labourer, and in time he grew old and infirm and could not hold a pen in his rheumaticky fingers, and a meeting was held to consider what was to be done in the matter. ❋ Unknown (1881)
I feel ruther rheumaticky this mornin ', er mighty shore sign that rain ain't fur off. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
This magnificent equipage was a trifle rheumaticky about its underpinning, but, drawn by four, six, or eight horses, it still took the road on holidays; and in winter, when the sleighing was unusually fine, with its wheels transformed into sectional runners like a gigantic bob-sled, it swept majestically out upon the road, where it towered above the flock of flying cutters whose bells set the air a-jingle from ❋ Kenneth [Illustrator] Frazier (1875)
