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She is on crutches, so getting down stairs is a little awkward for her.

Numerous unkempt and barely-clothed figures were coming away from the gates, a pilgrim or two with brown gown, broad hat, and scallop shell, the morning's dole being just over; but a few, some on crutches, some with heads or limbs bound up, were waiting for their turn of the sister-infirmarer's care.

Doctors say Clinton could be on crutches for up to eight weeks.

When she had taken fifteen bottles-she began to walk on crutches, and later with a cane, for about two or three months, when she could walk without a crutch or cane.

v and the assistant went into the dark corridor.


The smell was so strong there that Rostov held his nose and had to pause and collect his strength before he could go on.


A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.


Glancing in at the door, Rostov saw that the sick and wounded were lying on the floor on straw a Men on crutches, and Sir William Gordon (427) from his bed, with a blister on his head, and flannel hanging out from under his wig.

Mr. Pitt, who had a fever and the gout, came on crutches, and wrapped in flannels: so he did yesterday, but was obliged to retire at ten at night, after making a speech of an hour and fifty minutes; the worst, I think, I ever heard him make in my life.

Your ladyship and Lord Holland shall laugh at me as Much as you please for by dread of being thought charming; yet I shall not deny my panic, for surely nothing is so formidable as to have one's limbs on crutches and one's understanding in leading-strings.

For the first time, yesterday I crossed the room on crutches.

Perfectly cured he certainly was not, for he supported himself forward on crutches to give evidence.

artment are at first merely out of sorts with themselves, and vent their spleen in little interjections and contortions of phrase--cry _Pish_ at a lucky hit, and _Hem_ at a fault, are smart on personal defects, and sneer at 'Beauty out of favour and on crutches'--are thrown into an ague-fit by hearing the name of a rival, start back with horror at any approach to their morbid pretensions, like Justice Woodcock with his gouty limbs--rifle the flowers of the Della Cruscan school, and give you in their stead, eems, he sat once a whole night, not warm in his true love's bower (who indeed was by law another's), but sunken to the middle in a cold peat-bog, being hunted out; quaking for his life, in the cold quaking morass; (Dumouriez, ii. 370.) and goes now on crutches to the end.

Crippled Patriots hop on crutches round the Salle de Manege, demanding justice.

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