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  • You take a look down below at the staff; there are a dozen fellows hobbling around that he has operated on.   (source)
    hobbling = walking with difficulty
  • at last, a very old Frog, who was sitting under a tree, got up and hobbled slowly towards her:   (source)
    hobbled = walked with difficulty
  • SHAWN RETURNED TO WORK, hobbling unsteadily.†   (source)
  • But just then Pa shouted and hobbled toward them.†   (source)
  • It hobbled in and stopped.†   (source)
  • She hobbled after Lina, shaking a finger at her.†   (source)
  • He's about fifteen yards behind me, hobbling as fast as he can, but the mutts are closing in on him fast.†   (source)
  • Hobbled by leg shackles, constricted by handcuffs, Connor's strides are short, his posture hunched.†   (source)
  • He attacked it with his aunt Margie's hot iron, hobbled it in a silk stocking every night, and slathered it with so much olive oil that flies trailed him to school.†   (source)
  • I hobbled into my mother's room and crawled up on the bed beside her.†   (source)
  • What good luck, the hobbling Sydelle Pulaski thought.†   (source)
  • The music was jagged, hobbled — like a four-legged animal lurching on three legs.†   (source)
  • Finch hobbled to his pen.†   (source)
  • IN CHINA the men wore their hair in long black pigtails and the ladies hobbled around on tiny broken feet.†   (source)
  • At another time, the combination of the ragged coat and hobbled leg might have made the man stand out on such a bright summer day.†   (source)
  • Will you keep him hobbled all his life, like a broken horse?†   (source)
  • Mamaw hobbled over to Bonnie Rose and scooped her up in her arms.†   (source)
  • Victims of cancer or car accidents, once they heard my story, they hobbled and wheeled over to see me, they and their families, though none of them spoke English and I spoke no Spanish.†   (source)
  • Teabing hobbled lower through the shadows.†   (source)
  • He hobbled on his bruised feet down to where he had left his shoes and clothes.†   (source)
  • The man thanked him and hobbled off.†   (source)
  • Instead, he hobbled into the classroom, his home for more than thirty years.†   (source)
  • An old man and an old woman hobbling along arm in arm.†   (source)
  • Missus Walters turns and hobbles toward the door, the colored nurse in tow.†   (source)
  • He hobbled out carrying a steel rod from the construction inside.†   (source)
  • We couldn't walk well, so we just hobbled around the hut and made fun of each other to avoid boredom.†   (source)
  • The German shuts the wardrobe doors and hobbles away, and Marie-Laure stays on the bottom rung of the ladder for a count of forty.†   (source)
  • She hobbled, leaning heavily on her daughter, pausing again and again, toward the house.†   (source)
  • Finny hobbled over to the dresser and took up his soap dish.†   (source)
  • But Briony was hobbling away on soft white soles across the fiery gravel.†   (source)
  • Bibwit Harte, blue-green veins pulsing anxiously beneath the translucent skin of his learned head, waited on the shore of the Pool of Tears with two spirit-danes hobbled at his side.†   (source)
  • And by the time my mother opened it Samuel had rushed to fill the space, and she walked, without looking at my mother or even my father hobbling forward, right into Samuel's arms.†   (source)
  • Setting aside her needlework, Miss Peregrine rose and hobbled to the window.†   (source)
  • Hyde hobbled in, leaning heavily on a black cane.†   (source)
  • More than once I hobbled down the street, pushing that old wooden lawn mower, trying to earn her some money.†   (source)
  • An inch difference and he might've been hobbled for life or bled to death.†   (source)
  • Too small, too hobbled, too in-the-way.†   (source)
  • He hobbled across the room and took it down from the shelf and held it out to the Indian.†   (source)
  • Hoping she might be able to make it through the whole evening without seeing either of them, Cinder hobbled to her small room and closed the door behind her.†   (source)
  • So I hobbled into my room, stretched out on my bed, and turned the TV to ESPN.†   (source)
  • Shmuel got down painfully, and hobbled over to Gitl's side.†   (source)
  • "Wouldn't want you hobbling around when the Italians come."†   (source)
  • Henrietta's father, Johnny Pleasant, was a squat man who hobbled around on a cane he often hit people with.†   (source)
  • Though I felt faint, and wanted to sit down, somehow I kept hobbling along with a hitch in my step like a partially broken toy.†   (source)
  • But you can't get to London without money and that's why he hobbles up to us that Friday, the day before Confirmation.†   (source)
  • He hobbled back a step and twitched the gun towards the stairs.†   (source)
  • Enrique hobbles down a dirt road into the heart of the little town.†   (source)
  • He hobbled over to the jungle gym and sat down to readjust his snowshoes and get his breath.†   (source)
  • Groaning, he stood and swayed, then stiffly hobbled to a tree.†   (source)
  • I hobbled around the land warfare sessions, observing the new guys especially.†   (source)
  • …the Pope, the only white person in sight, waving to friends, stepping past the drug addicts, smiling at the young mothers pushing their children in baby carnages, slipping into the poorly lit hallway of 80 Dwight Street while the young dudes in hooded sweatshirts stare balefully at the strange, bowlegged old white lady in Nikes and red sweats who slowly hobbles up the three flights of dark, urine-smelling stairs on arthritic knees to visit her best friend, Mrs. Ingram in apartment 3G.†   (source)
  • "Watch out for kitty," said Bruce and hobbled aft along the keel catwalk.†   (source)
  • Henri hobbles, the shotgun hanging limply at his side.†   (source)
  • A patch of trailing phoenix burst into flame near the tethered "brids and one of the terrified animals-hobbled and blindfolded as it was-broke free and lunged through the circle of glowing arrestor rods.†   (source)
  • He pushed his right shoulder up under my left arm to bear some of my fast-dwindling weight, and I half hobbled, half ran, hall fell down the hill.†   (source)
  • Booth dismounted with some difficulty and hobbled up the porch to the door.†   (source)
  • Hunt hobbled to the front and displayed his Administration Building, intended to be the most important at the fair and the portal through which most visitors would enter.†   (source)
  • I hobbled behind the guard into the administration barracks at the opposite end of the Lagerstrasse from the hospital.†   (source)
  • Soon I hobbled around in slippers.†   (source)
  • Elinor looked so funny hobbling from the wall to the door and back again with her aching feet, back and forth like a clockwork toy.†   (source)
  • They were sick and hobbled and showed the scars and strain of too many years outside, but in the eyes of each, there were the signs of recovered confidence, dignity and hope.†   (source)
  • The old woman leaned heavily on Chani as she hobbled toward Jessica, looking like a collection of sticks draped in the black robe.†   (source)
  • One morning that October, right about the time I'd gotten used to hobbling everywhere on crutches, I awoke to a dull throbbing in my lower back.†   (source)
  • The next morning Marley was better, though still hobbling about like an invalid.†   (source)
  • On top of all that Carl broke his leg in '36 and spent his time hobbling up and down the rows, chasing after posts pr buckets he couldn't carry on account of his homemade crutches.†   (source)
  • Auntie hobbled down the stairs as quickly as she could and went in to find Granny dead on the floor; and she had died in a most peculiar manner.†   (source)
  • One of them was badly wounded and hobbling, another had a kerchief tied around his forehead.†   (source)
  • I remarked on his sleepless nights, his hundred-hour weeks, his incessant travel, as he hobbled along.†   (source)
  • She picked up her leather jacket and rucksack and hobbled to the front door, where he was waiting for her, showered and neatly dressed.†   (source)
  • In the morning, after two hours of fitful sleep, Luke hobbled into the farmhouse just as his mom was finishing up at the stove.†   (source)
  • He was hobbling as fast as he could go, right toward the monkey house, with this sign around his neck: BUY YOUR FUNNY-FACE BALLOONS HERE!†   (source)
  • The Sicilian hobbled away.†   (source)
  • A moment later, Josie Cormier hobbled inside.†   (source)
  • And most of all the pigeon, the one pigeon that hurried across the grass lopsided—"loppysided," as Palmer would have said then—as if one leg had been kicked out from under it, hurrying, hobbling, wobbling in goofy loops, tilting like a sailboat blown over, a boy chasing after, running and reaching, the boy laughing, the people laughing, little Palmer thinking, The boy wants it for a pet.†   (source)
  • For days I was hobbled by a limp and did not feel well enough to walk even the short distance to the markets.†   (source)
  • After they're gone, Camel hobbles over.†   (source)
  • Nan hobbles into my room.†   (source)
  • I don't deal blackjack so good, hobbled like this, but I maintain I'm a fire-eater in a stud game.†   (source)
  • And here, too, in this nearest hole, lies the white blindness, that sends creatures hobbling out to die in the fields, where even the elil will not touch their rotting bodies.†   (source)
  • Elody's hobbling along with one foot jammed in a child's snowshoe.†   (source)
  • He didn't try to hide his annoyance as I hobbled after him, but he didn't need to worry; you couldn't have paid me to stay in the Infirmary, not while I was conscious.†   (source)
  • Stoddard had been stepping as best he could, hobbling along in the hampering leg chains, that were attached to the wrists also, and twitched on his hands with every step.†   (source)
  • Tyler jumped to his foot—his own phrase—and hobbled over to grab Ryan's hand.†   (source)
  • Even Lester was there, though he was hobbling and in obvious pain.†   (source)
  • He had got the thorn in his thumb hobbling the horses the night before, and had been unable to get it out in the dark.†   (source)
  • We could not be wry, considering the difference in our ages, about growing old and deaf and hobbled, and I despaired a little, I began to think we'd already stretched the visit past bearable limits and what a mistake I'd made, coming here, because the subject was not speakable—too secret, still, even between the secret-keepers, after forty years.†   (source)
  • She became the matriarch of seven strong-willed children but hobbled until the end of her life in tiny shoes, walking like a slim penguin on short stilts.†   (source)
  • As we hobbled into the chow hall, all eyes seemed to be on us.†   (source)
  • Hobbled but determined, they had no choice but to buddy walk, virtually blind, over the brutal terrain.†   (source)
  • She followed me back, hobbling quickly on her bound feet, and shouted at my dia, calling him by his nickname.†   (source)
  • Milkman followed his finger, and hobbled over the gravel and ties to the station house.†   (source)
  • He hobbled to the other bedroom, where he found men's clothing: a pair of jeans, a plaid shirt, a hand-knit sweater, and a leather jacket with the name of the owner's bowling team, The Urbana Pinheads, emblazoned on the back.†   (source)
  • Or rather, hobbled, hiked up trouser legs, did a little skip-scamper-stop-and-pant, hiked up trouser legs, stepped, dragged, stepped, dragged, etcetera.†   (source)
  • "Even as I stand here –" he bellowed, "crippled, hobbled, sickened – I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived!†   (source)
  • I hobbled along attractively by his side.†   (source)
  • There were many miles yet to go between them and the Ford, and they hobbled forward at the best pace they could manage.†   (source)
  • Men, women, in many cases indistinguishable by sex, hairless, half clothed, hobbled past.†   (source)
  • Yossarian announced jubilantly, as he hobbled back into the ward.†   (source)
  • She took a couple of quick steps as if to run and hobbled to a stop.†   (source)
  • Had it been anyone else, I would have run — or hobbled — right out of the club, but with Wesley it felt okay.†   (source)
  • She rose and with the sack over her shoulder hobbled up the hill.†   (source)
  • Today, however, he was having great trouble making his way, and hobbled along on three legs; the fourth had a wound on it, and the wound was festering.†   (source)
  • Three dogs were killed and a fourth was hobbling behind the line on three legs and whimpering.†   (source)
  • The man hobbled out onto the field as Angel retrieved the ball.†   (source)
  • Hobbling over to a lone bucket and roll of toilet paper in the back corner, he glanced around his prison, but there was nothing new to see.†   (source)
  • Mau was waiting, a glint in his eye, when Ataba hobbled up.†   (source)
  • As he ran, his hobbled foot jabbed the air like a wild, deformed flipper.†   (source)
  • I had one vivid flash of Kyle finding me here alone, and was after Jeb before a second passed, scrambling awkwardly through the opening and then hobbling along on my stiff legs as fast as I could to catch up.†   (source)
  • There we hobbled them and let them graze.†   (source)
  • Jimmy roared, leaping off the counter and hobbling at Max, who backed against the door.†   (source)
  • I hobbled off the field as our defense headed out.†   (source)
  • He was hobbling around like an old man, complaining constantly.†   (source)
  • Joon hobbles over to the Legos.†   (source)
  • Armed with nothing but meaningless phrases, this boy had been thrown to fight for existence, he had hobbled and groped through a brief, doomed effort, he had screamed his indignant, bewildered protest —and had perished in his first attempt to soar on his mangled wings.†   (source)
  • She hobbles to get them.†   (source)
  • He went down the trail, hobbling slow, using the hickory stick and bent under the weight of his pack.†   (source)
  • I'd hobbled out to sit in a chair beside Old Yeller, where I could scratch him under his chewed-off ear.†   (source)
  • Dr. Van Ripple emerges from the fog, hobbling quickly on his cane.†   (source)
  • Killed in a car accident, he died drunk, leaving me hobbled by the sorrow of years of fatherless-ness.†   (source)
  • You were always holding open doors for people either hobbling or hunched over, heads in their hands.†   (source)
  • Conklin was hobbling pathetically toward the gates, turning constantly, the gun extended, his destination a car outside in the road.†   (source)
  • The bullets cut into the dirt, knocked down and shredded the tents, and slaughtered the hobbled, braying mules.†   (source)
  • Harriet gave a high-pitched, quavering screech and hobbled after them.†   (source)
  • But it's so uncomfortable when they go up your— I KNEW I shouldn't have picked a dress this tight to get off the plane in—even if I did personally modify it by hemming the skirt to above the knee so I'm not hobbled by it.†   (source)
  • There was an old man in the front yard, very old and thin and weak; he hobbled forward, glaring with feeble, toothless rage.†   (source)
  • I hobbled through the maze on my crutches to the attorneys' room at the jail.†   (source)
  • A once-vital man was being hobbled by this, a slow-growing tumor that made him half the man he'd been.†   (source)
  • Brave, she folded her parasol, hobbled off to the right, leaving the path.†   (source)
  • He hobbled the mule and tied a long rope to the burro and let them graze on the thin, bluish green leaves of salt bushes growing at the entrance to the canyon.†   (source)
  • Not far from where we stood, an old hobbling dog crawled out from under the house.†   (source)
  • He hoisted his heavy body on his crutch and hobbled over to begin the work.†   (source)
  • Ever the passionate pedagogue, he had hobbled after Eva in order to correct, or explain, or elaborate on something he had taught her in her most recent lesson—a matter of fingering or phrasing—what?†   (source)
  • I had been hobbling around with one boot off finding out about Harry.†   (source)
  • They drank, and they washed themselves, and Blue Elk went to where his pony was grazing and took off the saddle and the bridle and hobbled the pony for the night.†   (source)
  • He was cautious at first: suspicious of letting himself be hobbled.†   (source)
  • He goes hobbling towards the mound.†   (source)
  • When they came away from the casket, Vanessa hobbling on her two gimpy legs and smiling crookedly, like an alligator, Clumly nodded to them.†   (source)
  • I've got both feet hobbled and a sack over my head.†   (source)
  • A hobbled horse was moving across the yard with short, limping jumps.†   (source)
  • I made some sort of soothing reply, but with the licence of age she did not listen, hobbling away mumbling that it was her fault.†   (source)
  • The group of three fat ones— Ran with Miss Lizzie and Miss Nell in arm-moved in hobbled walk ahead.†   (source)
  • The blizzard killed dozens, cut power and hobbled transport.
    hobbled = hindered (made difficult)
  • Mags hauls herself up, plants a kiss on Finnick's lips, and then hobbles straight into the fog.†   (source)
  • She hobbles through the doorway, glances at us, counting but not seeing.†   (source)
  • Instead of turning left towards his tree, he hobbles along towards the village.†   (source)
  • The bird flops up and hobbles on a single, webbed orange leg.†   (source)
  • Slowly, barefoot, and with swollen knees, he hobbles north along the rails.†   (source)
  • Now, I'm off to bed," and Mother hobbles toward her bedroom.†   (source)
  • Bucket in hand, he hobbles back to the taco stand, begging along the way.†   (source)
  • He managed to get the hobbles on his own horse and the pack mule, but had to let the mare go.†   (source)
  • The rest of the day we were like goats held by hobbles.†   (source)
  • And with that, the old man hobbles away, as fast as he can.†   (source)
  • His wife takes his weight, and he hobbles off yelping about his ankle.†   (source)
  • In the next flash she saw the horses jumping and trying to shake off their hobbles.†   (source)
  • He then hobbles along the simulated forty-three-foot hallway.†   (source)
  • Once he's got the glass piece out he washes the cut with a little of the beer, then hobbles into the bathroom and rummages in the medicine cabinet.†   (source)
  • He hobbles along the streets calling, Anna Lie Sweets Lie, which doesn't sound a bit like Limerick Leader and it doesn't matter because everyone knows this is Ab Sheehan that was dropped on his head.†   (source)
  • I could hide behind the door, wait until she comes, hobbles along the hall, bearing whatever sentence, penance, punishment, jump out at her, knock her down, kick her sharply and accurately in the head.†   (source)
  • Then he hobbles to his own suite, what used to be his own suite, and collapses onto the damp unmade bed, and goes brownout.†   (source)
  • He hobbles across the beach to the water's edge, washes his foot, feels the sting of salt: there must have been a boil, the thing must have ruptured overnight, the wound feels huge now.†   (source)
  • The hobbles around my ankles are next.†   (source)
  • He held the mecate while Rawlins undid the sideropes from the hackamore and knelt and tied them to the front hobbles.†   (source)
  • The doctor hobbles closer.†   (source)
  • He limped around to the horses and got the rope and sat with his knife and cut hobbles from it for all the horses and looped them about their forefeet.†   (source)
  • He gathered the reins and looped them over the horse's head and nodded and Rawlins knelt and undid the hobbles and pulled the slipnooses until the siderope loops fell to the ground at the horse's rear hooves.†   (source)
  • The doctor hobbles ahead, leading us past other exhibitions: A painted Turk's head pushes fortunes out of its mechanical mouth; a snake dancer balances a giant serpent across her shoulders, undulating slowly as the beast coils and slithers; a man holding a stuffed bird trumpets the wonders of a traveling museum of natural history.†   (source)
  • With the other hand he reached for the waterbottle standing unstoppered on the rocks and poured water over his leg and heard the flesh hiss like something on a spit and he gasped and let the bottle fall and he raised up and called out his horse's name to him softly where he scrabbled and fell on the rocks in his hobbles among the others that he might ease the fright in the horse's heart.†   (source)
  • One of the Ares campers hobbled over and handed me a canteen.†   (source)
  • The operation was called hobbling, Paul, and that is what I'm going to do to you.†   (source)
  • This went on for weeks until one morning Abdullah saw him hobbling toward the hills, head hung low.†   (source)
  • Eragon hobbled to his bags and picked up his bow from where it had been thrown by the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • Then, at 12:45 A.M Beidleman, Groom, Schoening, and Gammelgaard hobbled into camp.†   (source)
  • Teabing looked unamused as he hobbled down the stairs.†   (source)
  • His stiff joints ached as he hobbled to catch up.†   (source)
  • In the winter of 1956, when Kya was ten, Pa came hobbling to the shack less and less often.†   (source)
  • He hobbled a step, looked at Edgar, and tried again.†   (source)
  • That same month a serious if unavoidable interruption hobbled the Landscape Department.†   (source)
  • She hobbled toward the bathroom and as she reached the door she glanced back over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • "At least this is one of the good ones," Maxon said, and hobbled over to the bench to sit.†   (source)
  • They stepped toward the woman and , at once, she turned and hobbled off back the way they had come.†   (source)
  • I hobbled into the front room and collapsed onto the sofa, my overshoes and coat still on.†   (source)
  • 'Now you're hobbled,' she said, 'and don't you blame me.†   (source)
  • Meg blew me one of her trademark raspberries, then hobbled to the left, pulling me along with her.†   (source)
  • Pleased and curious, Matt hobbled after him, grateful that he no longer needed the crutch.†   (source)
  • Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious.†   (source)
  • By November, I'd been hobbling around on crutches for three months, and I went in for a checkup.†   (source)
  • Now that Sydelle Pulaski depended on crutches, she lurched clumsily, hobbled by old habits.†   (source)
  • He hobbled now among the patches of ice.†   (source)
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