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Drewyer killed a Deer. I killed a prarie fowl we found 2 mears and a Colt the mears were lame, we ventered to let our late purchase of horses loose to night
The constant walking in water, and over rocks and pebbles, quite destroyed the two pair of shoes I brought with me, so that, on my return, they actually fell to pieces, and the last day I had to walk in my stockings very painfully, and reached home quite lame.
Old Man Curry rumbled behind his whiskers his nearest approach to a laugh. "Henry, eh? Well, now, it's this way 'bout Henry. He's better than a newspaper because it don't cost a cent to subscribe to him. He's got the loosest jaw and the longest tongue in the world." "But on the level," said the Kid earnestly, "is Elisha lame?"
"A lame duck, like most of the desert exiles, and the homeliest man west of the Missouri River," was Ford's characterization. "He is as stubborn as a mule, but he is honest and outspoken. If you can win him over to your side, you will have at least one lieutenant whom you can trust and who will, I think, be duly grateful for small favors.
He was half asleep already, and the bootmaker, who was lame, shrugged his shoulders as he led away the tired horse, with a gesture half of pity, half of doubting suspicion.
Lory was shot in two places again, and the doctors who attended him laughed when they saw the old wounds hardly yet healed. He would be lame for years, they said, perhaps for life. He had a bullet in his right shoulder and another had shattered his ankle. Neither was dangerous, but his fighting days were done, at all events for this campaign.
This simple elegance could not but banish all doubts; and this horrible portrait of the so-called Gen. Brandon what a stroke of genius! As to the lame leg of Sir Thorn, Daniel no longer believed in it. "His leg is no more broken than mine," he thought.
And you, the lame man in the hansom cab " Beatrice got no further, for a howl of rage from Sartoris prevented more words. The cripple wheeled his chair across the room and barred the door. "You shall pay for this," he said furiously. "You know too much. That anybody should dare to stand there before me and say what you have said to me " He seemed to be incapable of further speech.
"I know, too, a washerwoman who has a poor, lame boy a patient, gentle little fellow who has lain quietly for weeks and months in his little crib, and his mother is going to give him a splendid Christmas present." "What is it, pray?" "A whole orange! Don't laugh. She will pay ten whole cents for it; for it shall be none of your common oranges, but a picked one of the very best going!
Men plead want to extenuate theft, and strong provocations to excuse murders, and many a lame excuse they will bring for whoring; but this sordid habit even those that practise it will own to be a crime, and make no excuse for it; and the most I could ever hear a man say for it was that he could not help it.
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