The great distance between the British van and rear, and the crippled state of his own ship, prevented Rodney from following; and he was thus stopped short in the career of victory.
Crippled by them, Poland had no power of resisting the spoilers who were now casting their eyes upon her as their prey.
Having fortified some posts in the country, they repulsed a vigorous attack made by the Republican forces, and so crippled them that no movement of consequence could be undertaken during the rest of the campaign.
Nelson availed himself of this critical moment to get his crippled ships under weigh, and the imminent danger from which he had extricated them soon became apparent.
He was as determined as ever not to be beaten; and although he was at this time over seventy years of age, and sorely crippled by rheumatism, he straightway entered into a trade war with Deering, which was not ended until 1902.
That the Border States will join with the now crippled rebel States?
Thank God, the human family are so linked together, that no one man can ever enjoy life, liberty, or happiness, so long as the humblest being is crippled in a single right.
This association, with a slight change in organization, remained in existence a long time after the close of the war, actively employed in securing pensions and back pay to crippled and disabled soldiers.
Were they dwarfed and crippled in body and soul, while their enfranchised wives and mothers became giants in stature and intellect?
Had Tess had her way every sick or crippled child in town would have ridden behind the calico pony.
As she urged on the mules she was planning for a delight that had never yet entered into her crippled life.
Let me say here that often the little parables seemed meant to cheer and lift up Lib's own trembling soul, shut up in the frail, crippled body.
Or perhaps you believe in the transmigration of souls, and think that the spirit of some Æsop of old, who spoke in parables, had entered the frail crippled body of our little Lib, and spoke through her pinched pale lips.
Devil-worshipping cannibals, capable of every cruelty, committed for thousands of years to all the superstitions that ever crippled intelligence.
This prince had been hearty and in full possession of his limbs in his early age, but when he reached the years of eleven or twelve, he became crippled and doubled up like his father.
All the entrances to the house from two streets were blocked by hundreds of persons, and they said that he had already healed four individuals crippled with rheumatism in this house.
This is the disease which has crippled the old people in the workhouses and almshouses, and with them it is steadily progressive.
A manservant was gently pushing the chair, and the crippled woman was gazing sadly at the brightness of the sky, the gladness of the day, and the happiness of others.
The crippled and idiotic life which would bring disaster then is undermining our very existence now.
She had opposed this beautiful plan which would mean so much to her crippled sister!
It was the first time she had seen the crippled child since the doctors had pronounced her case hopeless, and she had feared that her presence might recall to Peace's mind the great misfortune, and bring on a deluge of tears.
Before Peace was aware of it, she had poured out the whole history of the little brown house in Parker, while the other crippled girl listened spellbound.
She glanced hastily at the crippled hands, then averted her eyes.
It was too cold to spend the hours out-of-doors any longer, and the Campbells dreaded the long days of confinement that stretched out in such an appalling array before the crippled child.
Packages began to arrive with insufficient postage, and the crippled girl's pocket money vanished with alarming rapidity.
The British ships were fought as resolutely as their antagonists, not being surrendered till they were crippled and helpless, and almost all the officers, and a large proportion of the men placed hors de combat.
About an hour after the discharge of the first gun had been fired the Finch closed up toward the Ticonderoga, and was completelycrippled by a couple of broadsides from the latter.
But the damages were soon repaired, and his two ships stood back for the crippled foe.
The Lady Prevost wascrippled and sagged to leeward, though ahead of the others.
They had suffered nothing from the Junon, but during the short period she was engaged, the Barossa had crippled one boat and slightly damaged another; one man was killed and two wounded.
Of course, this lessened the execution, and also graduallycrippled the guns.
The battle being fought, with a very trifling exception, at long range, it was in reality a conflict between a crippled ship throwing a broadside of 66 lbs.
He says that the Avon was first crippled by dismantling shot from long guns.
She was almost crippled with rheumatism, and showed me a pair of poor swollen knees that made my heart ache.
She was terribly crippled with rheumatism, and came to beg for some flannel.
After a time, usually many months, sometimes a couple of years, something happened to make them realize that while they were crippled and were going to be deformed, they still might find much in life that was not to be despised.
It would be a most serious thing for me just now to be crippled when I have need all of my available resources.
And there was also a growing multitude ofcrippled and disabled men.
The Germany to which he wrote would be a nation of widows and children, rather pinched boys and girls, crippled men, old men, deprived men, men who had lost brothers and cousins and friends and ambitions.
Two hours after the victory the British ship of war Poictiers appeared, and captured the crippled Wasp with the more crippled Frolic.
Even if we had sunk no battle cruisers or battleships, the German High Seas Fleet would have been crippled for months by the destruction of its indispensable ‘cavalry screen.
What has really crippled him has been the wiping out of his destroyers and fast new cruisers.
Just then the light cruiser Nürnberg, which had been sent upon the scouting expedition of which I have told, arrived upon the scene of action and encountered the crippled Monmouth.
I amcrippled with gout, and can scarcely hold a pen.
One way or other,' as Lord Derby says, I am terribly crippled for gilt, and the money came most apropos.
I am now crippled hand and foot, and a perfect curse to myself from irritability.
I only write a very hurried line to say so much, and now go back to a sofa again, for I am crippledwith gout and worse--if there be a worse.
There was no other seat vacant, the second chair of the house being in use by a crippled black man, who sat out upon the back porch, nodding.
Cephus he's been crippled up wid de rheumatics ever sence.
Doctor Cairn, a frousy, white-bearded old man, crippled from rheumatism, held out his hand to Christopher as he descended with some difficulty between the wheels of the buggy.
One glance at the fine face of the lad who was bookseller made them realize that, crippled as he might be, he would not accept charity.
We broke an oar coming off the beach that night, and it kind of crippled us," he said.
Mary Domville's little crippled boy would crawl in vain to the door and look for her coming through the forest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crippled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
