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And the very next morning, at two o'clock, up he stumped on his lame foot to Carl's room, in which there was light, sure enough, and went in without knocking. Carl was so deep in his work that he did not hear him at all, and the doctor stole up unperceived and looked over his shoulder.

"Now, here is my plan at least, if you consent to it, my lord. My paternal valley is very empty my father and my mother are long since dead; I should wish, of all things, to establish myself near you. Although lame, I am still good for something, if only to serve as a scarecrow to hinder the birds from eating your apples and cherries.

The arm was going on all right, and so was Mother Renouf's charge, the sprained ankle. "We must take care you are not lame," I said, while I was feeling carefully the complicated joint of her ankle. "Lame!" she repeated, in an alarmed voice, "is there any fear of that?" "Not much," I answered, "but we must be careful, mam'zelle.

The man on the stairs she could see that it was a man now though he moved silently, swayed in a grotesquely jerky way as though he were lame. It wasn't Danglar! She would go to any length to track Danglar to his lair; but not here here in the darkness here in the garret.

"Now I am on you I will pay you off, you brute," he exclaimed, thrashing the poor animal with his heavy whip. The horse dashed on for some way, then stopped short. He was dead lame. In vain Peach tried to make him move. To return would have taken longer than to go on; so dismounting, he led on the animal, hoping to reach the blacks' camp before night-fall.

As I pronounced the words GREAT CLAIMS, he gave a slight glance with his eye downwards upon the sleeve of his tunic: I felt the full force of the appeal I acknowledge it, said I: a coarse habit, and that but once in three years with meagre diet, are no great matters; and the true point of pity is, as they can be earn'd in the world with so little industry, that your order should wish to procure them by pressing upon a fund which is the property of the lame, the blind, the aged and the infirm; the captive who lies down counting over and over again the days of his afflictions, languishes also for his share of it; and had you been of the ORDER OF MERCY, instead of the order of St.

She was in every way worthy of the task ahead of her." When he had crossed the King's Ferry the mare went lame. A little beyond the crossing he met a man on a big, roan gelding. Jack stopped him to get information about the roads in the north. "That's a good-looking mare," the man remarked. "And she is better than she looks," Jack answered. "But she has thrown a shoe and gone lame."

"The Japanese fleet is lying off the Pacific coast, there's no doubt about that," remarked a reporter. "And, what's more, they're right in our country," said Halifax, looking up. "Who? The fleet?" inquired Harry Springley in a lame effort to be funny. "No, the enemy," answered Halifax coldly; "the so-called bandits," he added sarcastically.

His mother bought a load with her own earnings, but it seemed to melt away, and was nearly gone, before James remembered that he was to get the next. Mrs. Snow was feeble and lame with rheumatism, and unable to work as she had done, so James had to put down the books, and see what he could do.

He hobbled towards the gate of the stately old mansion, towards which Snarleyow was also hobbling; and he called in a feeble voice in which you could catch a note of pain: 'Good sir, I pray you to give me the shelter of your house for the night. Please, sir, do. Snow is driving out of the east, and the wind is bitter cold. I cannot live this night if you do not take me in; for I am ill and lame.