If a clear head is worth more than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo -- if muscles with the play of health in them are worth more than those drawn up in chronic "rheumatics" -- if an eye quick to catch passing objects is better than one with vision dim and uncertain -- then God will require of us efficiency just in proportion to what he has given us. ❋ Unknown (1867)
'Lisbeth, who for years had suffered severely from "rheumatics," and who had made up her mind that she was to die before the "old man," was but an indifferent nurse. ❋ Edward Newenham Hoare (N/A)
With a sigh she put on her ordinary everyday working dress, and proceeded to get the breakfast ready, for her mother had been out late the previous night, celebrating the new arrivals in the street, and had the 'rheumatics' this morning. ❋ Unknown (1919)
He was a deaf old man, whose conversation was carried on principally by guesswork, and it was easy for him to gather that when her ladyship's handsome young sister had given him greeting she had not forgotten to inquire respecting the "rheumatics," which formed the greater part of existence. ❋ Unknown (1907)
"I hev always hearn that sayin ', Old Daddy," acquiesced an elderly codger, who, by reason of "rheumatics," made no pretension to muscle. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
And he hung with a transfixed interest upon her reply, prolix and discursive according to the wont of those who cultivate "rheumatics," as if each separate twinge racked his own sympathetic and filial sensibilities. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
This reckless selfishness had further only resulted in giving "rheumatics" to that progenitor, who now required the external administration of opodeldoc to his limbs, and the internal administration of whiskey. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
"rheumatics," and his mother kept at home by the necessity of providing dinner for those four small boys. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
S'posin 'I get a rupture, or the rheumatics, or the cholera. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"I guess I got to get back to the sea an 'the tropics and warm the rheumatics outa me." ❋ Unknown (2010)
An 'old Susan claimed her rheumatics was hurtin' her an 'so she couldn't go. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He moved to Malvern in Worcestershire, where he paid more taxes but his rheumatics disappeared. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But since I'm dreadful afflicted wid the rheumatics, and can't abide diggin 'at all, at all ... well, if ye can sink your gentle-manly pride an' finish them two rows for me, why, t'will be for the good o 'your soul an' my body. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My family was down in the world, Christmas was coming on, a brother in the hospital and a sister in the rheumatics could not be entirely neglected. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mrs Sliderskew, with much blinking and chuckling, and with looks expressive of her strong admiration of Mr Squeers, his person, manners, and conversation, replied that the rheumatics were better. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But Mrs. Heep had asked permission to bring herself and her knitting near the fire, in that room; on pretence of its having an aspect more favourable for her rheumatics, as the wind then was, than the drawing – room or dining – parlour. ❋ Unknown (2007)
‘Now jump into bed again, or you’ll catch the rheumatics. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then the rheumatics study- it says 1 50000 potential solutions were used. ❋ Unknown (2006)
