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Greenaway, rheumatic about the lower joints, so she went on crutches; but she went fast, being vigorous, and so did her tongue.
At this moment the cripple's well-known shuffling tread and the rattle of crutches was heard on the stairs. He came up with more than his usual hurry. Croft turned with an effort, so as to get a sight of him as he entered the room. "I have heard the good news," he said, as he reached a hand feebly towards Tom, "and it has made my heart glad."
I bore more resemblance to a cripple with two crutches or a highly ineffectual version of the devil on two sticks. I carried them both because I valued them both, and did not wish to risk losing either of them in my erratic travels. One is a very plain grey stick from the woods of Buckinghamshire, but as I took it with me to Palestine it partakes of the character of a pilgrim's staff.
If I had we'd been dryin' his skin now!" "And he's in his prime?" "Between eight and twelve years old, I'd say, by the way he went up the slope. An old bear don't roll so easy." "You've run across some pretty old bears, Bruce?" "So old some of 'em needed crutches," said Bruce, unlacing his boots. "I've shot bears so old they'd lost their teeth." "How old?" "Thirty thirty-five mebby forty years.
The resolute swing and bearing of the lumberman that had returned as he regained his strength were gone. He clumped across the room unsteadily on a pair of rude crutches, his left foot swathed in bandages a big, ungainly bundle. "What is it, Joe?" the wife asked anxiously. "Just more of my precious luck, that's all, Nannie."
Professor Jocelyn, indeed, still lectures on psychology, half-heartedly now, to a rapidly dwindling class of young women. But Ned Jocelyn's name is painted in black letters on a brown wooden cross at the head of a grave one of a long row of graves in a French cemetery. Tom is trying to learn to walk without crutches in the grounds of an English hospital. Mrs.
Then Galahad called him, and bade him help to bear this heavy thing. "Truly," said the old man, "it is ten years since I could not go but with crutches." "Care thou not," said Sir Galahad, "but arise up, and show thy good will." Then the old man rose up, and assayed, and found himself as whole as ever he was; and he ran to the table, and took one part with Sir Galahad.
Kindly see that he gets his medicine regularly every seven minutes, and don't let him sleep in a draft; pajamas are much warmer." "Come on, you grinning idiot," said Foster. When the door had closed upon the three, Sydney placed his crutches under his arms and moved over to the chair beside the couch.
On the premises there is a quaint museum with crutches and all sort of sticks and invalid chairs left there by their former owners in grateful acknowledgment of the wonderful waters and mire that had healed them. Of late there has been much comfort added; great new baths have been built, villas and new hotels added, so that there is accommodation for rich and poor alike.
While he was speaking they were accosted by a man upon crutches, who, telling them in a broken voice that he had a wife and twelve infant children dependent on his support, supplicated a little charity. Popanilla was about to empty part of his pocketfuls into the mendicant's cap, but his companion repressed his unphilosophical facility.
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