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The dusty windows looked strange and dead; and the closed door over the well-worn threshold seemed to warn him off. The little side-gate into the yard was not locked. Franz Vogt entered by it upon his paternal inheritance. Just then old Wackwitz came hobbling with his wooden leg across the yard, carrying a pot of steamed potatoes. "Nobody has any business here!" he cried out to the intruder.
He came hobbling up the brae, so bent that his body was almost at right angles to his legs, and his broken silk hat was carefully brushed as in the days when Janet, his sister, lived. There he stood at the top of the brae, panting. I was but a boy when Jimsy Duthie turned the corner of the brae for the last time, with a score of mourners behind him.
She tried to break into a hobbling run, but he held her back. "Better not. You'll only hurt yourself. It isn't raining yet. You're not nervous?" She laughed a little, breathlessly. "I don't admit it. I should never dare to show the white feather in your presence. Oh, look at that!" She shrank in spite of herself as another intolerable flare darted across the sky.
"What? poison?" broke out the lawyer, catching at the old woman's meaning so suddenly that he could not quite control his voice. "Hush-h-h! you fool!" hissed the old woman, rising at once, hobbling to the door and opening it suddenly then closing it and returning to her chair. "You call yourself a lawyer, honey, and do such things as dat 'are?
Beside him on the grass was a box bound round with iron, and that was his magic-box. After he had looked in the mirror for a while the fairy hid it away again under her cloak. "Now come," she said, "for it is time we were journeying on." "But what have I in my box?" asked Teddy, as he picked it up and joined the fairy, who was already hobbling along toward the city.
Hobbling to the window, she would see the child leading Betsy by the hand. “Running away again,” was all Maida would say. Occasionally Maida would call in a vexed tone, “Now how did she creep past the window without my seeing her?” And outside would be rosy-cheeked, brass-buttoned Mr. Flanagan, carrying Betsy home.
But there is your rhyme fastening you by the leg, and you must either reject the line which pleases you, or you must whip your hobbling fancy and all your limping thoughts into the traces which are hitched to one of three or four or half a dozen serviceable words.
Hide and seek!" from which I at last understood that he meant to inform me that the ladies used to play that Occidental game in Ackbar's harem; so, after a short game to show the old man that I understood him, we strolled on to a singular kiosk-like little building, my guide every now and then renewing the game and hobbling round corners despite of my remonstrances to the contrary.
I met Emerson one day, with one leg drawn clear out of shape, and rendered almost useless by the scurvy. He was very weak, but was hobbling down towards the Creek with a bucket made from a boot leg. I said: "Johnny, just give me your bucket. I'll fill it for you, and bring it up to your tent."
A worse man to deal with was a wooden-legged cripple who came hobbling down the path, so weak and so old to all appearance that a child need not stand in fear of him. Yet when Alleyne had passed him, of a sudden, out of pure devilment, he screamed out a curse at him, and sent a jagged flint stone hurtling past his ear.
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