Word: limpingly
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...hiss. The murderous invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have been so quick, so deadly...
...acts in fancy dress theatricals at home and does not enjoy itself, or in England and does, makes no difference. When the favored few return to these United States, loudly will they boast of their glimpse of the King and secretly be thankful that they have a President whose limp hand they may shake...
...some days. When the French channel steamer Engadine set out imprudently from Boulogne, towering seas swept off a hatch, flooded her bow, and burst through a bulkhead into the women's firstclass saloon. By supreme good fortune no one was drowned within the ship and she managed to limp into Folkstone harbor without foundering...
...Prove it! Prove it, then!" flung back the defiant Schwartzbard, dropping limp, into his seat...
...particular script is as legible as in a hasty printing but he should congratulate himself on the brief time necessary for registration. In the majority of universities, registration is symbolical for standing endlessly in line, for answering countless questions and for filing innumerable bonds. The registration limp is as vital a disease as the writer's cramp and much more prevalent. And the hours which pass while waiting in line are among the bitterest in the human rosary. At Harvard it means little more than a walk to one of various halls and ten minutes spent there while registering...