Example Sentences

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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.

From The Starbucks by Read, Opie Percival

He halted before us and nodded, leaning rheumatically on his staff.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The two trustees climbed stiffly and uncertainly into the back seat as if they felt they were risking their lives, and Bi lumbered rheumatically into the driver's place and took up the lines.

From Exit Betty by Hill, Grace Livingston

The wind made strange whistling sounds through the interstices of the lumber and the battered hull groaned and creaked rheumatically.

From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry

He rheumatically grumbled in his doorway; so the gendarme called our Albanians, and in two twos they had turned the cart upside down in a ditch, saying— "It serves you right."

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora