1240 examples of crippled in sentences

"Reckon our dogs are gettin' into trouble," said Salmon P. anxiously to his deaf and crippled partner.

I kneeled before him, with my strength gone, my right arm crippled.

"It's the toughest kind of ill-fortune to be crippled just when the fun is the hottest," he said, after explaining how the wound had been received.

The power of the senate was also crippled by the law of Gracchus in which he transferred to the tribunes the burden of improving the roads of Italy, contracts for which had hitherto been awarded by the censor under the approval of the senate.

The following morning Shidoub killed twenty of the camels he had won the day before, and caused the meat to be distributed among the widows and those who had been wounded and crippled in war.

The only person in the place was a pale, crippled woman; her sick head, lapped in a poor white clout, swayed languidly to and fro.

Farms were untilled, enterprise deadened, invention crippled, education neglected; life was of little value; labor was the badge of servility, laziness the very badge and passport of gentility.

" At that moment the crippled old man vanished suddenly, and the brothers saw Merlin in his own person riding toward them.

Unnumber'd maladies his joints invade, Lay siege to life, and press the dire blockade; But unextinguish'd Avarice still remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies.

Thus is a great national fact crippled and destroyed, which seems to me most abominable.

Only the gaunt and crippled trunk of it remained.

But the child, as she called her, had scrambled off the cart, and stood beside her, leaning on the wheel, for she was helplessly crippled.

It was well on in the summer, when the two divisions, east and west, were strewn with wreckage and the pit tracks in the shops and shop yard were filled to overflowing with crippled engines, that the insurrectionaries began to gather in their respective labor groups to discuss the growing hazards of railroading on the Trans-Western.

Her commerce with every country but Spain has been crippled in every possible manner, as can readily be seen by the frequent protests of shipowners and merchants.

She is too old and crippled to do hard work, so spends most of her time smoking her pipe and rocking in her old armchair on the little porch of her home.

Then, just before the War flames up, secret service claims him, and he returns from a dangerous mission irretrievably crippled.

The king was occupied in raising money, being sorely crippled by want of funds, as well as of arms and munitions of war.

And then at that instant, as I stood there, it was suddenly driven home to me how poor and purposeless a life I should lead while this crippled friend of ours and the companion of my boyhood were away in the forefront of the storm.

French poilus were in the hall, crippled or convalescent, after their day of battle, and with their women around them they stood at attention while the national hymn was sung.

I have a crippled heart, but it is capable of love.

Before the prospect of being crippled for life her active nature shrank in unutterable horror.

These reserves were made up of men more or less crippled and unfit for work in the field but who were still able to do service on fortifications.

Erle Stanley Gardner (A); 25Sep59; R242663. <pb id='272.png' /> The crippled corpse.

She come here last night because her hoss fell and got crippled, and there wasn't a hoss I'd trust at night with her, it was storming so hard, and slipperyand at daylight I put her on the gentlest one we had, and took her home.

"Delsarte's method," he would reply, "is an orthopedic machine to straighten crippled intellects.

1240 examples of  crippled  in sentences