Word: leggedly
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Smith was especially hampered by a fractured leg which he suffered last year and which was paining him. A blister also added to his troubles together with the slippery footing of the ice covered road...
...surgeon motioned to his assistants to complete preparations for the operation. Graduate surgeons and doctors, students and pressmen drew back out of the way, craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which...
...operating table lay a little girl. One leg was shorter than the other. One hip was dislocated, had been so from her birth. The doctor was going to help her. He was going to make her like other little girls, whose rompings she had so envied. So she looked up at her benefactor, hopefully, trustfully...
...curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something did. It was an automobile. It struck Ruff while he was crossing the road, and after that the Airedale lay quite still and never again pawed with his leg or sniffed with his nose. Dick McDevitt did not understand what people meant when they said the dog was dead. Dead! A stupid word; but he repeated it to himself until it seemed to take on a meaning. His father † dug a hole in the ground, and asked Dick McDevitt...
When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...