It was agreed, as these men coulden't run the bases, that a man be blindfolded and wheel these aged cripples about the bases in a wheel-barrer.

The system cripples the colony, and, by discouraging production, decreases the English revenue.

Denmark is said to be impoverished by the disproportion of the learned to the industrial class; production is insufficient, and too much of a good thing cripples the country.

Cripples sometimes made.

Everybody sees that; and all strong people are, or ought to be, ready to lift babies and cripples.

Far back in the line we met two cripples, hobbling along side by side as though for company, and still farther back a Belgian soldier came, like a rear guard, with his gun swung over his back and his sweaty black hair hanging down in his eyes.

The moment she had left the carriage, men and women and children had seized eagerly upon her belongings, to carry the bags and rugs and little packages, and now they followed her in a compact crowd, all talking together in harsh undertones; and from the dark doorways, as she went by, old women and old men came out, and more children, half clothed in rags, and cripples four or five.

He dies saying, "Let my children, be they cripples, be they idiots, be they boys, or be they girls, inherit all my property alike.

In darksome corners thou wilt bide, Where beggars vile and cripples hide, And e'en though God thy crime forgive, On earth, a thing accursed, thou'lt live!

"It cripples us sorely," said Willet.

"And forty or fifty are maimednot like that little pin scratch of yours, my dear Mr. Ranger, but hands lost, legs lostaccidents that make cripples for life.

The world so often betrays them at the end, strips them to nakedness and leaves them to diefor they are the cripples, the sick, the blind in spirit....

She surrounded a tender, sensitive, musical and poetic soul, one quick to catch the tone of a higher spiritual faith, with the common conditions of ordinary social life, to show how such an "environment" cripples and retards a soul full of aspiration and capable of the best things.

His social environment cripples him, and his life comes to nothing compared with what he had aimed at, and what he was capable of attaining.

Down the broad pathway between the white statues came a procession of cripples.

And yet, strangely, there was more gladness than sadness in Paris now that spring had come, in spite of the women in black, and the cripples in the gardens.

It has been like a leit-motif through all the drama of this war in France, through the spirit of the French people waiting patiently for victory, hiding their tears for the dead, consoling their wounded and their cripples, and giving their youngest and their manhood to the God of War.

During the reign of Natural Selection, before the birth of love, cripples, the insane, the incurably diseased, were cruelly neglected and allowed to perish.

But there was an element of sadness and gloom even in these festivities of the carnival of 1813; the presence of so many cripples and invalids recalled the memory of the reverses of the past year.

At the balls there was a great scarcity of young men who could dance; incessant wars had made the youth of France old before their time, and had converted vigorous men into cripples.

In the flickering of the yellow flames, these forced cripples and the yellow faces above them reeled to and fro fantastically all together.

Salazar with his company of cripples was chosen to silence him.

Indeed their efforts amused Gordon so much that all the time they were advancing he kept repeating as he rubbed his hands gleefully together, "Go it, ye cripples; go it, ye cripples!"

Indeed their efforts amused Gordon so much that all the time they were advancing he kept repeating as he rubbed his hands gleefully together, "Go it, ye cripples; go it, ye cripples!"

The three named are on indefinite leaves of absence, and so are Majors Searle and Noel, permanent cripples from wounds.