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It grows very slowly, is usually elliptical in shape, and the solid form is rarely larger than a hazel-nut. The nerve fibres may be spread out all round the tumour, or may run only on one side of it. When subcutaneous and related to the smaller unnamed cutaneous nerves, it is known as a painful subcutaneous nodule or tubercle. It is chiefly met with about the ankle, and most often in women.
"Left the day after the rodeo," tossing his hat and gloves on the floor and sitting down on the edge of the bed. "I remember Little Marion was laid up then with a sprained ankle or something. What do you hear from your mother, Marion?" "She's well and so's the baby. They'll be home anytime now." "What's the matter with you, Marion?" "O, I'm sort of used up." "How do you mean used up?
"Hop you out now, Peter," said Priscilla, "and help Mr. Mannix down into the boat. He has a sprained ankle and can't walk by himself. Be careful of him!" The task of getting Frank into the Tortoise was not an easy one for the slip was nearly as slimy as when Priscilla fell on it the day before. Peter, with his arm round Frank's waist, proceeded very cautiously.
The nobleman looked at the pattern of the sock on the ankle he was nursing, and knitted his brows in perplexity. "What if the Committee of the Stock Exchange decide to interfere?" he asked at last. "Oh, that would knock me sky-high," Thorpe admitted. "Approximately, how much may one take 'sky-high' to mean?" Thorpe appeared to calculate. "Almost anything up to a quarter of a million," he answered.
"Except for a pain in my ankle, I am getting along very well, thank you," was the reply. "Say, he's all wool and a yard wide, even if he does look like a softy," declared Pete, to himself. Threading their way through the wood, the fugitives emerged, after some hard riding, upon the bare hillside.
The leg and the ankle were turned to a miracle. It is out of the question that I should deny the resemblance altogether, since it has been remarked by so many different persons whom I cannot reasonably accuse of a conspiracy. As a matter of fact, I saw little of it and confessed to nothing.
The greyhound of the Fezzanee also ran down a hare. Next day it procured us a gazelle; but with these exceptions were seen only ground-larks, and what we call in Lincolnshire water-wagtails. It is worth mentioning that at this place our chaouch sprained his ankle, and Dr. Overweg applied spirits of camphor as lotion.
McRankine years, sir, to get used to her first husband. She told me so." "It took us some days, if I remember, to get used to Mrs. McRankine. To be sure, her cooking " "That's what I say, Mr. Anne: it's more than skin-deep: and you'll hardly believe me, sir that is, if you didn't take note of it but she hev got an ankle."
For an hour White had been obliged to clinch his teeth to keep from crying out with the pain of his weakened, and now overstrained, ankle, and when Cabot announced that it was no use trying to get further before morning, he sank to the ice with a groan.
Francesca took her breakfast in bed, and came listlessly into the sitting-room at ten o'clock, looking like a ghost. Jean's ankle was much better the sprain proved to be not even a strain but her wrist was painful.
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