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  • adjective having heavy limbs

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Examples

  • During the afternoon Lena felt heavy-limbed and near sleep, as if she might be coming down with something.

    NEVER WAVE GOODBYE DOUG MAGEE 2010

  • Kananbala woke the next morning, heavy-limbed, yet hollowed out by the dark space within her.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Kananbala woke the next morning, heavy-limbed, yet hollowed out by the dark space within her.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Kananbala woke the next morning, heavy-limbed, yet hollowed out by the dark space within her.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • We made love like people underwater, heavy-limbed and slow.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • He interested me as his type always does -- a fine upstanding fellow he was; over six feet tall, broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped, heavy-limbed, the perfect fighting man, brown-faced, blue-eyed and tawny-haired.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • He was as tall as Conan, though not so heavy-limbed.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He was as tall as Conan, though not so heavy-limbed.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • One is large-boned and heavy-limbed, hoarse-voiced, and masculine, like the “Ibos” of Bonny and New Calabar, who equal the men in weight and stature, strength and endurance, suggesting a mixture of the male and female temperaments.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • He was as tall as Conan, though not so heavy-limbed.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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