Do you really mean that my lameness was a positive attraction to you?
As I was of less importance, my father (previous to my accident) used to take me, to my intense delight and enjoyment; but during the period of my lameness he went to Switzerland alone.
He was discharged at the last-mentioned date for disability, the surgeon stating in the certificate his trouble to be "chronic hemorrhoids and rheumatism, both together producing lameness of back; unfit for Invalid Corps.
And I say that he invented his lameness to excite pity.
Just lately her leg was broken again and her surgeons fear that her lameness must be perpetual.
Furthermore, the lameness is greater going downhill than up, for the reason that these conditions are favorable to an increased motion in the edges of the fissure.
This is thrombosis, and it often gives rise to sudden and excessive lameness of a very painful character.
An assistant, with the halter strap in his hand, quickly starts the animal off in a trot, when, if the hock joint is affected, the lamenesswill be so greatly intensified as to lead readily to a diagnosis.
The slight lameness which appears when backing out of the stall ceases to be noticeable after a short distance of travel.
After a time, if the case is closely watched, the animal takes a few lame steps while at work, but the lameness disappears as suddenly as it came, and the driver doubts whether the animal was really lame at all.
Thrombi may form in any of the arteries, and doubtless have been the cause of many cases of lameness which could never be accounted for.
The lameness is now so great that the patient refuses to use the foot at all, but carries it if compelled to move.
In the lameness of sidebones the toe of the foot first strikes the ground and the step is shorter than natural.
Some of the symptoms of shoulder lameness are peculiar to themselves, and yet the trouble is frequently mistaken for other affections--navicular disease more often than any other.
The lameness also manifests itself in bringing the leg forward with a circumflex swinging motion and a shortening in the extension of the step.
As it increases it causes awkward, straddling, dragging movement of the hind limbs, or lameness on the affected side.
The foot is now to be poulticed for a day or two, or until the lameness and suppuration have ceased.
Months may have elapsed after the first manifestation of the lameness before a discovery has been made of the lesion from which it has originated, and there is no recall for the lapsed time.
Fee is not like the rest of us; in the first place, he is more delicate, and his lameness makes him very sensitive.
He was a healthy child, but when eighteen months old was affected with a fever which left a permanent lameness in the right leg.
The trouble with the eyes continued, and we begin to find mention of a lameness which was sometimes serious enough to confine him to the house, and which evidently lasted a long time; but from this he seems to have recovered.
Byron's alleged sensitiveness on the subject of his lameness seems to have been exaggerated.
Byron was of that soft, lymphatic temperament which it is almost impossible to keep within a moderate compass, particularly as in his case his lameness prevented his taking exercise.
This, however, does not appear to have helped the case, and the infirmity continued so long that it was generally feared that his lameness would be permanent.
During the years of his lameness he sometimes invented extemporaneous stories, which invariably commenced with a voyage to some foreign country, from which his hero never returned.
They were deeply impressed that my lameness had been a blessing in disguise, or we would have gone on to the coast and consumed more time than we did in walking slowly to favor the cripple knee.
It seemed now that my lameness had indeed been a blessing.
The tangle got worse and worse as we descended, and at times we walked in the bed of the stream in order to make more headway, but my lameness increased and we had to go very slow indeed.
The lameness of his voice would ordinarily have made her smile.
It seemed to Keegan even that it was he, Keegan, feeling that way, and that the carefully concealed embarassment, the futile chagrin and lameness were his own emotions and not Aubrey Gilchrist's.
Still he complained of lameness in the hollow of his foot, and no relief came until March, when the work was completed.
Soon after winter set in, this man, who might ordinarily be termed a tenderfoot, complained of lameness in one of his feet.
Yes, and there was a little more lameness in his ankles and knees than he could have wished.
For the boy was of course debarred by his lameness from skating or any amusement of the kind, and he had often seemed to shrink from being a spectator of what he could not take part in, with a sensitiveness which his parents regretted.
Jerry was as good as a sister any day, Charlotte used to declare, and yet not the least "soft" either; considering his lameness it was wonderful what Jerry could do.
Lastly, when Ulysses reproacheth Thersites, he objecteth not to him his lameness nor his baldness nor his hunched back, but the vicious quality of indiscreet babbling.
I 've thought manny 's the time since I got me lameness how well I 'd like one o' those old-fashioned thorn sticks.
Her lameness confines her to the house altogether now, an' I have her on my mind a good deal.
She was growing very indolent and much stouter, while her lameness had perceptibly increased.
The next day the shop was taken, and Gervaise ran about with such a light heart that there was a rumor that she had been cured of her lamenessby an operation.
She checked herself and pointed to Gervaise, whose lameness was very perceptible as she descended the hill.
Gervaise was slightly, very slightly, lame, but her lameness was perceptible, only on such days as she was very tired.
The leader had come home lame from the fish camp where he had been boarded during the summer, and, despite all attentions, the lameness had persisted; so he must be left behind, and there was much difficulty in securing another leader.
She says it will not be so very bad a lameness as it might have been-- as if he had not had his knee left.
Of course, she could not know that he had a reason for wishing not to show off his lameness before Tooke; and she thought him unkind.
This boy had evidently a strong inclination for travel and adventure; and though his lameness put military or naval service out of the question, it might not unfit him for civil service in India.
I must do something, and my lameness hinders everything but that--perhaps, if I learn plenty of Latin and Greek, I may be able to help Cyril one day.
As the news of the engagement had not yet reached her, the talk was confined to certain local interests: a new grant of books to the library, the difficulty of finding a butler, and the lameness of one of Dr.
This plan renders it unnecessary for the blacksmith to use his knife, and ensures that the hoof is worn evenly; thus avoiding the lameness which in England is so often caused by the hoof not being pared straight.
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