varicose veinsin a sentence
- Weak knees, arthritic knuckles, varicose veins, infirmities, indignities — they aren't ours, we never wanted or claimed them.† (source)
- Smallest Man the Varicose Veins he clean forgot to mention, as he wobbled off with less than half the money he had asked for and less than a tenth of what he deserved.† (source)
- As I watched her I remembered all the times she said how hard it was to be a nurse--how bad it was for the legs, how painful the varicose veins were that nurses always got from being on their feet so much.† (source)
- She had traveled half of the trip in a hammock that two men carried on their shoulders, because swelling had disfigured her legs and her varicose veins had puffed up like bubbles.† (source)
- While working as a waitress in the small-town restaurant, she had been horrified at the sight of the older waitresses' varicose veins, a professional hazard that came of a life of walking, running, and standing with heavy loads.† (source)
- I assumed that his bleeding came from wormlike varicose veins blooming in his stomach from the scarring in the liver.† (source)
- Ummm …. varicose veins, maybe, and an easier or more difficult orgasm.† (source)
- But this year Hank was scheduled to have his varicose veins fixed at the end of June and didn't fancy hobbling around so they'd hauled it back a month or so to Memorial Day.† (source)
- She was wearing her perpetual smile and her favorite casual outfit, a bright orange Tennessee Volunteer T-shirt—she's a rabid fan—khaki shorts that exposed knobby knees and varicose veins, and orange high-top Converse basketball shoes.† (source)
- The varicose veins stood out.† (source)
- A tendency toward varicose veins is exacerbated by conditions that increase pressure on the leg veins.
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- Unlike the other two, Mr. Walters had none of the angry redness of alcoholic gastritis, and no bleeding varicose veins to suggest cirrhosis.† (source)
- I've got varicose veins.† (source)
- Until now he had been too much ashamed of his pale and meagre body, with the varicose veins standing out on his calves and the discolored patch over his ankle.† (source)
- Got varicose veins—not bad, but enough to disqualify him.† (source)
- She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.† (source)
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