Word: leggedly
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Premier Herriot, his lame leg resting bandaged upon a stool, fidgeted, looked uneasy. The following day, he roundly assailed the Vatican, repudiated M. Briand's advice, said that he had made a decision and would stick by it. (Tremendous applause from the Left benches...
Doctors warned Premier Edouard Herriot, still abed sick with a swollen leg, that his condition did not warrant him taking an active part in politics. Rumors ran around that the Premier would soon resign and the Ministry with him. Whether or no the Premier is going to take his doctors' advice is another matter; but it was generally believed that his health could not long stand the strain of Chamber debate...
...Prime Minister sick abed with a swollen leg...
Bright and early one morning la grippe took a firm hold on him, kept him in bed for several days. The malady was accompanied by a swelling of his right leg, which he was forbidden to move; but his general condition improved rapidly, mainly owing to his Herculean constitution...
...wedding-guests danced and laughed, and the vodka flowed like water, Boryna's farm was the scene of piteous, hidden tragedy. Honest Kuba, servant of Boryna, had been induced by the Jew Yanka, his creditor, to poach on the Manor. The forest-keeper had shot him in the leg, and he had not dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment...