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rheumatically - definition and meaning
Definitions
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adverb In a rheumatic manner.
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rheumatic + -ally
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Examples
Oppy clutched his chest and gasped rheumatically for air.
Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986
Little resort towns with white beaches and forlorn jetties wheel abeam rheumatically slow.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
The water hissed and splashed, as the wheels of the steamer began to turn rheumatically .
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
James, the cat, stalked rheumatically at her side.
Uneasy Money 1928
The horses, stiff and sore after their long journey, stalked rheumatically down the gangway.
The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West 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.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages 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.
The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918
ONE Sunday afternoon late in July old Henry Biltmer was rheumatically descending into the head of the canyon.
The song of the lark 1915
V ONE Sunday afternoon late in July old Henry Biltmer was rheumatically descending into the head of the canyon.
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915
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