495 examples of hobbled in sentences

" In a fortnight more Patricia abandoned her chair and took to crutches, on which she hobbled everywhere as actively as the others walked.

The camels were always driven into camp at sunset, and hobbled along, their two fore-legs being tied, or one of them being tied up to the knee, by which the poor animals are made to cut a more melancholy figure than with their usual awkward gait and moody character.

" With their joint assistance I hoisted myself out of the chair and, leaning heavily on the pair of them, hobbled across to the door.

The world of men has fenced me in and hobbled me with convention, with precedent, with fictitious sentiment.

At this point the trunk line resolved itself from four tracks into two, and here the gravel track, which looked as if it had been laid by a palsied contractor, left the main line and respectability behind, and hobbled out of sight behind the signal station with an intoxicated air.

While they talked somebody shouted outside, and the old man, getting up with an effort, hobbled to the door.

They hobbled over willingly enough to have their pictures taken, although one of them muttered that he had had his taken seventy times and no one had sent him a. copy yet.

He hobbled around on his three legs, with the splint beating a sort of tattoo on the floor, but he stayed back in the kitchen with me, or in the yard.

" Peter hobbled to the front door with him.

"Yes," went on Uncle Wiggily, as he hobbled over to a chair.

" In her disorderly chamber, too, Mrs. Jeffrey hobbled on one foot to the window, where, with a deep sigh of relief, she sent after the young men a not very complimentary adieu, which was echoed in part by the servants below, while Theo, on the piazza, exclaimed against the lonesome old house, which was never so lonesome before, and Maggie seated herself upon the stairs and cried!

He had just time to hide behind the trunk of a pine when the three grim men approached him and the woman hobbled behind.

His wounds were swollen and painful; yet he hobbled on for a time, until the pain became so great he could go no further, and he sat down, tired and discouraged.

" They both ran toward itthat is, Jack ran, and Bob hobbled after.

Then an ancient waiter hobbled up to him and explained that coffee was not quite ready.

"Good-bye." CHAPTER IX THE VOICE OF THE WILD Eight miles out on the prairie, out of sight of the Buffalo Butte ranch housesave for a scattering herd of grazing cattle in the distance, and a hobbled mouse-coloured broncho feeding near at hand, out of sight of every living thinga man lay stretched full length upon the ground.

Old women in scanty petticoats that were fringed by no dressmaker, with pinched faces and watery eyes, looked imploringly and hobbled along, wrapping parcels of broken victual under their faded shawls.

Cripples hobbled along the lines, beseeching, imploring, catching at stirrups, plucking feebly, blindly at the horses' manes for support.

At one time above the average stature, he was now bent nearly double with age, and hobbled along with two sticks.

" And to show how strong she was, she got up and hobbled about to make the tea.

It was a very painful pilgrimage, but he set his teeth and leaned hard on his stick, and hobbled along dauntlessly, though every now and then his injured foot would give a twinge which made him snarl to himself and stagger.

Robert Wainwright, however, pushed them aside and hobbled forward a few paces without speaking; then he suddenly halted and jerked his thumb over his shoulder.

As he hobbled the horses he talked to them affectionately after his manner when alone with them.

He had never before been left with hobbled feet to shift for himself in a prolonged storm of rain, sleet and snow.

Besides, said Jack, the fatherly Government has no intention that petticoats, even hobbled ones, should be flitting around while the habits and the methods of the busy insect were being examined through a microscope or a telescope.

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