There was no ice in the river now, and to swim ashore would have been but little, except for rheumatics afterwards.

My neck is so stiff it creaks every time I move it, and I've got the rheumatics in my legs something cruel.'

Paul would be the tallest man in the shed if it were not that he stoops slightly as the result of having had rheumatics.

Clemens began writing his newspaper letters at Aix, the first of which consists of observations at that "paradise of rheumatics."