Be careful and don't drop it," warned Miss Florence, hobbling on her lame ankle to the door to watch them down the steps.
She did as he bid, and then he directed her to fasten one end of a fifty-foot length to the ankle of one of the Wieroos and the opposite end to the second.
As he rolled off into the black abyss he felt the rope tighten about his ankle and an instant later he was stopped with a sudden jerk to swing pendulumlike, head downward.
I found here an intelligent mulatto man of about sixty years who had had a fever sore a little above the ankle a number of years.
As he appeared very submissive, the sorestankle was relieved.
Waverley then attempted to rise, but found that he had suffered several very severe contusions, and, upon a further examination, discovered that he had sprained his ankle violently.
Nevertheless, he dislocated his ankle and had several of his ribs broken.
He hobbled and hopped and squirmed, and only paused when the tender ankle brought him up wincing and shivering.
Sid Hone reached out from behind a fallen log to grasp the dying lad's ankle and draw him into shelter, but Quintana reloaded swiftly and smashed Hone's left hand with the first shot.
Out of dust ankle deep into water and mire knee-deep was too much for the nerves and patience of the strongest man and most patient Christian.
He was suffering from a sprained ankle and a badly bruised arm, and was exhausted from want of food.
Bend up your left knee, and take your left ankle in your left hand--now pull hard, leg and hand both!
He said it wasn't quite so good as the smelly sort, but her ankle is a whole lot better.
She drew deep breaths, and half forgot that her ankle was still throbbing from its recent effort.
I wish we could have another, now your ankle is all well; but it is too late for to-day.
The ankle isn't bad, but the petticoat had common lace on it.
As we were driving in to the meeting he sat next me in the omnibus, and kept squeezing my arm all the time under the rug, which did annoy me so, that at last I gave his ankle a nasty kick, and then he left off for a little.
One was Simms, weary and panting, nursing a twisted anklewhich a moment before had put him out of the game.
Knox, Upper's crack right forward, was out of the game with a twisted ankle and when the last whistle blew the score board declared Lower House the winner by a score of 12 to 9.
The Left Bower lazily replaced a bandage that he had worn around his ankle for weeks without any apparent necessity, and the Judge scrutinized with tender solicitude the faded cicatrix of a scratch upon his arm.
My ankle is entirely well, and I'm glad of that, or else I should not be able to walk so far as the Downs.
He had been captain of the line, and his ankle was smashed by a bullet.
He sat down and unlaced his shoe and found his ankle badly swollen.
He fought the chute to collapse it, tripped, and twisted his ankle painfully.
It was a vast assembly, chiefly of men, in their homespun and sheepskins and woollen stockings, cross-gartered with hemp fromankle to knee.
From his right ankle and right wrist hung the rings of his broken fetters, and from the leftankle and left wrist of Sunlocks trailed the ropes that had bound them both.
Now your ankle is sprained and you can't walk, so I'll go to the nearest farmhouse for assistance and there telephone Mr. Sutton that his prisoners have escaped.
All right, but I wish you would have the sprained ankle and let me go for aid.
The Count de Lestis has sprained his ankle and his face is all smeared with blood,--I could not tell how great were his injuries," lied the unblushing one over the telephone.
