1142 examples of limps in sentences

At this juncture too an itinerant coffee-seller limps into the room with his tin can and cups and is straightway pounced upon by the breathless performers, who apparently find coffee better dancing-powder than any other beverage.

He limps if he walks lamely.

And yet they know, that with me, in a piece of mischief, execution, with its swiftest feel, is seldom three paces behind projection, which hardly ever limps neither.

If he walks,he hobbles, or jumps, or limps, or trots, or sidles, or creepsbut creeping, sidling, limping, hobbling, and jumping, are by no means walking.

"It is a very small she spaniel," added Zadig; "she has lately whelped; she limps on the left forefoot, and has very long ears."

Homeward he limps with painful pace, Reflecting thus on past disgrace: 50 Who cherishes a brutal mate Shall mourn the folly soon or late.

His wings are powerful; only let him spread 'em, and up he goes; but as for his feet, he limps just a little, as you see.

His train a motley'd, sanguine, sable cloud, He limps along the russet dreary moor, Whilst rising whirlwinds, blasting keen and loud, Roll the white surges to the sounding shore.

Why, he came over with the Earle of Pembrooke, and he limps and he limps & he devoures more French ground at two paces then will serve Thomasin at nineteene.

Why, he came over with the Earle of Pembrooke, and he limps and he limps & he devoures more French ground at two paces then will serve Thomasin at nineteene.

The same knight who regards a blow from the human hand as the greatest of evils, if he gets a ten times harder blow from his horse, will give you the assurance, as he limps away in suppressed pain, that it is a matter of no consequence whatever.

[Following and hooting the WHITE PILE, who, having picked himself up, limps off.]

It limps asham'd in the train and retinue of Humour: it knows it should have an establishment of its own.

Humanity limps along, and your mistake, the only one, is that you are two or three days' journey ahead of it, butperhaps with good reasonthat is one of the mistakes most difficult to forgive.

With crutch in hand, he points his mineral rod, Limps to the spot, and turns the well-known sod.

I presume you know that September has got a lame leg, but he grows better every day and now is very well but limps a little.

"Ranaway a negro named Hambleton, limps on his left foot where he was shot a few weeks ago, while runaway.

"Ranaway a negro named Hambleton, limps on his left foot where he was shot a few weeks ago, while runaway.

Do you see the idea?' 'You mean she limps?' 'Precisely.

As always, always for the lighted windows Of all the world, the Dark outside is nothing; And all that limps and hides there in the dark; Famishing,broken,lost!

[Limps to window.

One day after its dinner the dog was lying on its side asleep and the princess chanced to see the heads of the iron nails in its feet: "Ah," thought she, "that is why the poor dog limps."

While thus our jocund Travellers fare, Up springs the Sailor from his chair Limps (for I might have told before 380 That he was lame) across the floor Is gonereturnsand with a prize; With what?a Ship of lusty size; A gallant stately Man-of-war, Fixed on a smoothly-sliding car.

He has great external precision, and great inward looseness and slipperiness of mind: so that, if you follow his words, no man's thought can be clearer, no man's logic more firm and rapid in its march; but if you follow strictly the conceptions, the clearness vanishes, and the logic limps, nay, sprawls.

A schoolboy with mustaches, in order to show off, limps with one leg.

1142 examples of  limps  in sentences