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Limping

noun

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet. Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness.

Limp

verb

(past & past part. limped; pres. part. limping)

Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury. Synonyms: gimp, hitch, hobble.

Proceed slowly or with difficulty.

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"Limping" Quotes from Famous Books

... gripped Pete, trying to pull him away. Pete kicked back viciously with a spurred heel. The Lava man yelled and retreated, limping. ...

— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower

... genius, how little of the sustained ring and resilience and triumphant immortal youth of real exuberance do we find there! Instead of a band of sound, alert, well-equipped soldiers of the mind and spirit, behold a sorry-looking lot of stragglers painfully limping along with lack-luster eyes, or eyes bright with the luster of fever. And the people whom they serve are not entirely free from blame. They have neglected to fill the soldiers' knapsacks, or put shirts ...

— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

... trespass ab initio, and his action would lie for a trespass vi et armis. But unfortunately passion had prevented him from waiting to bring his action, and he had assumed the vi et armis to himself in the first instance, not having patience to attend the slow and limping pace of the law. He was not indeed quite certain that, although he and his party gave the first blows, an action of battery brought against Mowbray might not be justified: for did he not come upon him in full force; he, the rector, being ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... accident happened to Seor ——- in this last pronunciamiento. He had already lost his leg in the first one; and was limping along the street, when he was struck by a ball. He was able to reach his house, and called to his wife, to tell her what had occurred. Her first impulse was to call for a doctor, when he said to her very coolly, "Not this time,—a carpenter will do better." He had ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... limping after the litter in which, instead of himself, for whom it was sent, lay a mountain sheep and the skin of the snow-leopard that he had placed there to save the huntsmen the labour of carrying them. Ayesha was waiting for him in the hall of her dwelling, and gliding to ...

— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard

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