He thinks by the first of May I should be as good as new--no canes or crutches or anything.
She forgot about the crutches lying on the grass, forgot that she was afraid to walk.
I'll have to go on crutches for a while but at least I won't have to stay in one room any longer.
Gale looked at Phyllis, at the crutches lying on the grass at the side of the bench, and then away across the blue waters of the lake.
She won't be able to start classes right away and she will have to use crutches for two weeks or so, but the doctor thinks by the first of May she will be as fit as a fiddle.
A poor little cripple with two crutches sat in front of me and screamed to me to save him or he would be drowned.
I grabbed him up under one arm and took his crutches with my free hand.
After the plaster has thoroughly set, the patient is allowed to walk about with a stick, crutches being unnecessary.
An apparatus should be adjusted to enable the patient to get into the open air, and in fractures of the lower extremity the patient should move about with crutches in the intervals, putting weight on the fractured bone.
When the affection is unilateral, advantage may be derived from a Thomas' or other form of splint, along with a patten and crutches; in bilateral cases, from the use of crutches alone.
It is better to usecrutches than not to walk at all.
So he left the tricycle by the steps, and putting his crutches under his arms, swung himself into the building and down the corridor to his study.
On nearer view he saw that the object was in reality a tricycle, and that it held beside the rider a pair of crutches which lay in supports lengthwise along one side.
Sydney Burr smiled and, turning, climbed the steps with astonishing ease, using his crutches with a dexterity born of many years' dependence upon them.
You see I have my crutches here, and I can get around very well on them.
When the door had closed upon the three, Sydney placed his crutches under his arms and moved over to the chair beside the couch.
She put out her light and worked in the darkness, a strange figure of adventure, this middle-aged woman with her smooth hair and lined face, sitting in her cambric nightgown with her crutches on the floor beside her.
She got out of bed, and using her crutches carefully moved to the sill, trying to accustom herself to the thought of going over the edge.
I love all my children, monsieur, but whenever I hear the sound of Jean's crutches on the floor, I always feel a rush of happiness.
Go now to Rustem, and speak good words to him, and make him forget my anger.
He is the mighty Rustem, the greatest of Persian warriors, the noblest man that ever lived.
Rustem fell deeply in love with the fair maiden as soon as he saw her, and at the first opportunity told her of his affection.
Mr Rayner leant on his crutches and watched her active movements with the wistful glance which was so often seen upon his face.
Once more enter Tony on his crutches to receive another prize.
And when she came back the toys they were crutches And a chair I could wheel myself in.
John Flint sat nearby in the wheel chair, his crutches lying beside it, and looked on silently and ate his cake and drank his tea stolidly, as if it were no unusual thing for him to break bread in such company.
Lamps, and models of ships, and glass eyes and wax toes and leather hands, and crutches and braces, and that sort of plunder?
Oh, you can't think what it is to see mother walking around with no crutches and the wheel chair set aside, and she's in such splendid spirits.
He had fashioned me a capital pair of crutches out of boxwood, and no sooner could I creep about on them than he began to discourse, over the camp-fire, on the hunting excursions we were soon to make together.
Already I had flung my crutches away, and three weeks later we were after the deer in good earnest.
However, I was left a cripple, and have had to use crutches ever since that time.
At times I was able to walk some on crutches by being careful.
As Thursday was warm, Van Berg spent the greater part of it on the cool piazza, for he was now able to move about on crutches very well.
He at once was on his crutches and in close pursuit, but she flitted away before him till in despair he returned to the rustic seat.
With a smile he took on of his crutches in his hands as he said: "I have come to these very properly at last, and you must have seen their significance.
I had dropped his crutches in the cave; they were no use to him--he could not have moved a step in the teeth of this wind.
And Dot leaned on his crutches and looked round with bright wide-open eyes.
Dot's soft heart was so moved by her distress that he hobbled into the water, crutches and all, to my infinite terror.
I could not bring thecrutches or the cloak, Essie," he whispered.
Carrie trembled a good deal, and turned very white, but she offered no remonstrance; and when Allan put her down outside the parlor door, she took her crutches from me in a patient uncomplaining way that touched us both.
You little fools, he will have your eyes, Jesus cried, and he caught them up in his arms, but unable to manage them and his crutches together, he dropped the crutches and started to get back to his seat without them.
Esora cried, for the crutcheswere in the wood-shed.
Esora did not ask any questions, and fearing that her master might tell her things he might afterwards regret having said, she remarked that Jesus would be needing the crutches in about another week.
The man had turned upon her so sharply that his crutches fell to the floor with a crash.
Owen accompanied the newly-married couple to the railway-station, and in his anxiety to see the last of his sister, left the brougham and stood upon his crutches whilst the train was starting.
Taking up his crutches he went out of doors and wandered about the muddy roads with no object in view save that of getting rid of time.
Mudd himself, proven by one of the witnesses, that Booth left his house on crutches and went in the direction of the swamp.
It was only a few days later that I made my way, without the aid of crutches this time, to the American Red Cross station where I again met Miss Forbes and had a long and pleasant chat with her about California.
With the aid of crutches I was able to move around a little and to enjoy the company of other boys.
The very crutches of the cripples will be taken out to arm the fighters, and the bed-ridden will be turned three times three in their beds to see if they are fit to go into the field of battle.
Norah felt like a cripple whose crutches have been taken away.
After Tom, the man with the crutches came upstairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crutches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
