The urchin had found out that when once Cherry's crutch was out of her reach she could not get at him; and he had ridden off upon it so often, before committing any of his worst misdemeanours, that Cherry always lay down on it to secure it.
I am an ungrateful fool; and when a crutch is offered to me, I take hold of it as a log instead of a rood.
And you'll have to sit sideways, because the lowest crutch is so far back there's not room for your leg if you sit saddleways," continued his preceptor breathlessly.
It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore.
The work that man went through, leaping on his crutch till the muscles of his chest were fit to burst, was work no sound man ever equalled; and so thinks the doctor.
Silver doubled his pace, digging away with the foot of his crutch like one possessed; and next moment he and I had come also to a dead halt.
If an order were given, John would be on his crutch in an instant, with the cheeriest "Aye, aye, sir!
Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible.
With a cry John seized the branch of a tree, whipped the crutch out of his armpit, and sent that uncouth missile hurtling through the air.
When I came again to myself the monster had pulled himself together, his crutch under his arm, his hat upon his head.
The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had got away, but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented, Long John took up his crutch and departed.
What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays.
Here he leaves the same horse tracks an' crutch tracks.
Moore wielded the crutch menacingly, but as he was not steady on his feet he was at the disadvantage his adversary had calculated upon.
Columbine's tone, and the exquisite softness and tenderness with which she placed a hand on the rude crutch would have been enlightening to any one but these two absorbed in themselves.
Frank, sitting just behind the little girls, heard what they were saying, and pushed his crutch away from him with an impatient gesture as he watched the active lads going through all sorts of comical gymnastics.
True, he could not dance without onecrutch in his hand; but I promise you he footed it well.
To her he says, 'I have nothing here to please your wanton eye, or voluptuous palate; no paint for thy wrinkled face, nor crutch to support thy tottering kingdom.
He was already on the point of rushing away through the crowd, when he noticed Gustave's crutch lying on the platform.
All at once a paralytic rose up and walked towards the Grotto, holding his crutch in the air; and this crutch, waving like a flag above the swaying heads, wrung loud applause from the faithful.
The crutch engages with the upper part of the spring, and as the balance wheel swings the pallets are actuated.
From the pallet arbor at F descends the crutch Ff, ending in the fork f, which embraces the pendulum P, so that as the pendulum vibrates, the crutch and the pallets necessarily vibrate with it.
In order to diminish the effect of the impact of the scape-wheel on the pallets, and of the crutch on the pendulum rod, the plan has been tried of making the crutch into an elastic spring.
If an order were given, John would be on his crutch in an instant, with the cheeriest "Ay, ay, sir!
What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree-stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays.
Silver doubled his pace, digging away with the foot of his crutch like one possessed, and next moment he and I had come also to a dead halt.
With a cry John seized the branch of a tree, whipped the crutch out of his armpit, and sent that uncouth missile hurling through the air.
Illustration: It was something to see him get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore (Page 71)] Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible.
The work that man went through, leaping on his crutch till the muscles of his chest were fit to burst, was work no sound man ever equaled; and so thinks the doctor.
It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and, propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore.
The patient was confined to bed six weeks, and it was five months afterward before he was able to go about, and then only with a crutch and a stick.
He remained about town for a month until he found an inviting piece of defective sidewalk, suitable for his purpose, when he stuck his crutch through the hole and fell screaming to the ground, declaring that he had broken his leg.
Our guide was, if possible, as happy at our evening fire as some one else was when he "shouldered his crutch and told how fields were won;" and very much for the same reasons.
She appealed to her infant brother to say, directly minute, what a crutch was, or she would take advantage of his unprotected youth to smack him.
And I seen a man with one leg and one crutch took two coppers to tike him to the stytion.
He would stand still and look on the ground until the last of the other followers had gone a few steps in advance, then he would set his crutch in front of him, swing himself forward for a space, and then stand still again.
Bjerregrav's crutch stood behind the door, and he himself sat in stiff funereal state by the window; he held a folded white handkerchief in his folded hands, and was diligently mopping his eyes.
The faithful sound of his crutch no longer approached the workshop about six o'clock.
Well, he left good-luck behind him and he took good-luck with him and he started off on his journey with the cake, the crutch and the cure.
Follow the Giant's tracks until you come to the sea, throw the crutch into the sea and it will become a boat, step into the boat and in it you can sail over to the Green Island that the Giant rules.
They had hoisted the sails and now a wind came and the boat that was from his grandmother's crutch was blown out of the harbour and Feet-in-the-Ashes was left without any companion on the Island.
He plied his improvised crutch with redoubled energy.
With his crutch he succeeded in detaching some of the nuts; and on these broke his fast.
And the crippled lad upon the crutch beside him urged him on.
According to statistics they'll buy another crutchand come back to buck the tiger again.
I, good leaue haue you, for you will haue leaue, Till Youth take leaue, and leaue you to the Crutch King.
Some of sixteen, Plucke the lyn'd Crutchfrom thy old limping Sire, With it, beate out his Braines.
Toiling on slowly and patiently, his crutch sounding loudly upon the pavement, with the same bitter look fixed as it were upon his lip, Jean Marais slowly toiled on till he was lost in the crowd.
The girls found him hobbling about with a stick, he having cast his crutch aside.
He said the ankle would be lame just so long as it was babied, that he proposed to throw away his crutch on the following day.
The leader of our band was a wounded officer, in pyjamas and a bowler hat (this being the sum of his possessions) who waved his crutch as a conductor's baton.
Silence, if you please," says he of the long jowl, using his crutch as a chairman's hammer.
She is quite heavy, and crippled, having to use a crutch when she walks.
Dragging footsteps and the tap, tap of a crutch sounded as Aunt Emma approached the door.
Aunt Emma leaned heavily on her crutch as she wielded the iron with a dexterity attainable only by long years of experience.
Yet here, as in so many places, it would seem that superstition has proved a useful crutch on which morality can lean until it is strong enough to walk alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crutch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
