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  • I know because I sprained my ankle once by the old baseball field and he piggybacked me all the way home.†   (source)
  • We're still square," said Harry, testing his leg gingerly; it shook violently as he put weight on it; he had sprained his ankle when the spider had dropped him.†   (source)
  • Doctor Trefusis (1870-1936, May He Wake to Glory) inspected it and pronounced it merely sprained.†   (source)
  • This is not a sprained ankle, Pat.†   (source)
  • If someone sprained an ankle, others felt the pain.†   (source)
  • This morning, he limped into our house, slumped in a chair, threw his sprained knee up on the table, and smirked.†   (source)
  • Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?†   (source)
  • I wrap my hand in bandages, then tell her I can't write because I sprained my wrist.†   (source)
  • He limped around the room on his sprained ankle.†   (source)
  • When I try to stand, I realize that I've sprained one of my ankles, too.†   (source)
  • Dan Needham described Mr. Tubulari as "already senseless, before his fall," but the track-and-field coach severely sprained his ankle in the mishap and had to be carried to the Hubbard Infirmary.†   (source)
  • Another sprains an ankle when he hits.†   (source)
  • My shoulder may be sprained.†   (source)
  • Perhaps a sprain.†   (source)
  • She rushed toward the abandoned car, the boots clipping awkwardly on the concrete floor as she tried not to trip on the too small foot and sprain her ankle.†   (source)
  • And when you think that she has her regular office work to do, that Mr. Kleiman is sick, that Miep is home with a cold and that Bep herself has a sprained ankle, boyfriend troubles and a grouchy father, it's no wonder she's at the end of her tether.†   (source)
  • Hana sprained her ankle in the fall and still has to do physical therapy once a week, to keep it strong.†   (source)
  • And the last time I'd cried had been in the third grade, when I'd fallen from the tree house and sprained my wrist.†   (source)
  • "We used to think concussions were like sprained ankles," Dr. Barrett said.†   (source)
  • But I would have canceled later — faked an illness or a sprained ankle.†   (source)
  • The injury list grew longer: cuts, sprains, blisters, bruises, pulled muscles.†   (source)
  • Our lovers enter her bedroom in a seedy hotel, he carrying her from the sitting room because she has sprained her ankle.†   (source)
  • While the rest of us played dodgeball or did calisthenics in phys. ed., he always had some excuse not to participate--a sprained ankle or a headache or some such--and sat in the bleachers and read one of his books.†   (source)
  • People would look at you, glance you up and down, like, what happened, sprain your ankle?†   (source)
  • But Shinny's examination of Geoffrey's broken ribs and sprained shoulder had seemed purely perfunctory, and he had spoken barely a word to Ian, in spite of the man's deep grief and frequent incoherent cries.†   (source)
  • But a week before we were due to leave, Gran tripped over a tree root and sprained her ankle.†   (source)
  • Maman had brought Pari, who was the patient that time, having sprained her ankle badly during gymnastics in school.†   (source)
  • Sprain?†   (source)
  • One day I stumbled carrying lime and sprained my ankle.†   (source)
  • I got to my feet: minor spraining of the sub …. trans …. damn, what was that called?†   (source)
  • "It's a pretty bad sprain, so I'd say a few days until she can walk, a week or two until it's fully healed."†   (source)
  • You take one bad step in a million, sprain an ankle, and then you find out how far from civilization you really are.†   (source)
  • My ankle was sprained, maybe broken.†   (source)
  • They licked their lips and clucked their tongues in fond remembrance of pains they had endured—childbirth, rheumatism, croup, sprains, backaches, piles.†   (source)
  • She nearly sprained every one of Pumpkin's fingers, it seemed to me, trying to make her hold it with the proper grip.†   (source)
  • But what about mussing their dresses, what about spraining their ankles on high heels?†   (source)
  • If they come around looking for you, one of your friends says you sprained your ankle and you're coming along behind."†   (source)
  • Who took you to the hospital when you sprained your wrist?†   (source)
  • I had tape and Vaseline and those stretch wraps used for sprained ankles, although what I'd actually use them for was a mystery.†   (source)
  • She demonstrated how to do it: she wound the roll around her ankle several times, the way you tape up a sprained ankle.†   (source)
  • Trace sprained his ankle in Paris.†   (source)
  • I went once for the stomach flu and dehydration after what Sam called my Gut Puking Spectacular, and once for a sprained wrist.†   (source)
  • I think you sprained something.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's sprained.†   (source)
  • The night before, Paramedic (in Training) Lindsey Lee Wells had diagnosed him with moderate contusions and "sprained balls" after an exhaustive search of medical Websites.†   (source)
  • He explained to Ambiades, loudly enough for everyone to hear, that if I'd fallen on my arm, I might very well have sprained a wrist and I would then be no use to him at all.†   (source)
  • It's a sprained ankle.†   (source)
  • Peters, his ankle sprained, lifted himself up.†   (source)
  • I never so much as sprained a toe in 752 jumps.†   (source)
  • Sprained ankles were not uncommon.†   (source)
  • Not long after that, during the first week of April, he climbed up onto the roof at Hebrew School, fell, and sprained his wrist.†   (source)
  • She may have a sprained neck.†   (source)
  • Henry nodded that he was okay, but Vlad was almost certain he'd sprained or maybe broken his ankle during his fall.†   (source)
  • Any child running a fever, having a sprained limb, or showing signs of any disease like chicken pox or measles was automatically disqualified.†   (source)
  • Seivarden might have internal injuries or severe head trauma, and I was only capable of fixing cuts or sprains.†   (source)
  • A woman sprained her ankle because she tripped over her dog, and the man up on the cannon got his hand stuck up in the barrel.†   (source)
  • Only some years later could I appreciate how badly troubled he must have been when he came home to find Sophie had sprained her ankle, and that it had been David Strorm, the son of Joseph Strorm, of all people, who had seen her foot.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, it was only a high ankle sprain.†   (source)
  • "It was sprained," Alec said.†   (source)
  • "Ankle's okay, but I think I sprained my butt bone."†   (source)
  • She learned that she had torn the cartilage of two ribs, that she had sprained an ankle, ripped patches of skin off one knee and one elbow, and acquired a few bruises spread in purple blotches over her body.†   (source)
  • I tried to forget the slow men behind me and tried to remember instead the hurting lessons of my game, the injured knees, the sprained ankles, the burning thirst of practice, the elbows in the mouth, the missing teeth of forwards.†   (source)
  • I just wish Josh Miller would suddenly sprain an ankle or something (okay, that's probably wrong of me, but I just wish he didn't have to be around to spoil everything for me!†   (source)
  • I sprained my hand; it's difficult to write.†   (source)
  • When he at last was able to stop his momentum and find a perch, he discovered that his numerous injuries were superficial; a scrape on his knee, a bloodied nose, and a sprained wrist being the worst of them.†   (source)
  • So he walked on air and sprained an ankle—close enough to a broken leg and Alvarez was there when it happened.†   (source)
  • Ralph was so astounded he couldn't talk, so astounded that in springing up to welcome her, he knocked her over, so that she fell to the sidewalk and sprained her ankle.†   (source)
  • My mother used the tobacco, leeks, and grasses swimming about the hand to rub our sprains and bruises.†   (source)
  • You sprained your back.†   (source)
  • I've made up the downstairs bedroom (she waved vaguely towards it), "where he stayed when his poor back was sprained, you remember.†   (source)
  • They handled him with the deft and gentle Kingston judo while they checked him carefully for breaks and sprains.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his arms; nothing seemed to be shattered or even sprained all that badly.   (source)
    sprained = stretched to the point of injuring the ligaments that connect the bones
  • If he fell on his bike and sprained a leg he could wait for it to heal; if he forgot something at the store he could find other food in the refrigerator.   (source)
  • "Good thing it's only a sprained ankle."†   (source)
  • He was wandering around in the dark for some reason and sprained his ankle.†   (source)
  • His palms jangled and his left thumb throbbed, though he couldn't remember how he'd sprained it.†   (source)
  • Jason bandaged Piper's sprained shoulder while Hazel sat at the stern, feeding Nico ambrosia.†   (source)
  • Say you sprained your ankle and I'm rushing you to help.†   (source)
  • Ruth sprained her ankle and spent a month on crutches.†   (source)
  • He didn't, however, tell her who had broken his ribs or how he'd sprained his knee.†   (source)
  • I think it might be sprained, or broken.†   (source)
  • He hit my shoulder just as I crossed the goal line, and the hit sprained my shoulder.†   (source)
  • "I think it's sprained.†   (source)
  • The final tally was three broken limbs, a shattered collarbone, a dozen smashed fingers, two horses that had to be put down, and more cuts, sprains, and bruises than anyone cared to count.†   (source)
  • Twisted, yes, sprained perhaps.†   (source)
  • And when I say that I wet my lips, I mean I pinched them shut so tightly I nearly sprained my mouth, and then tipped the sake cup until I felt the liquid against my skin.†   (source)
  • Her sprained body moves awkwardly.†   (source)
  • After that Clarke girl had finished evaluating Octavia and determined she only had a sprained ankle, Bellamy had carried her over toward the trees where they'd spent the night.†   (source)
  • It was the wrong angle for her arm; her muscles were working at cross-purposes, and she felt an agonizing flare of pain in her back above her right shoulderblade as something sprained.†   (source)
  • I sat up straighter, watching the shadow slip past the row of trees my mother was trying to nudge into growing against the fence, stepping smoothly over the hole where my father had sprained his ankle mowing the lawn the summer before.†   (source)
  • To console himself, he set up a card table outside the house, and painted a sign that said FRESH LEMON-AID 50 CENTS PLEASE POUR YOURSELF (SPRAINED WRIST).†   (source)
  • Thirty-seven minutes before first China Coast impact Great China denounced actions of F.N., recognized us, offered to negotiate—and I sprained a finger punching abort buttons.†   (source)
  • After a while a doctor came and told me I had a sprained wrist, lacerations on my back, stitches to bind the cut by my right eye, and two bruised ribs.†   (source)
  • It's either broken or badly sprained.†   (source)
  • Then a rush, and she was up to her waist in a ditch with a sprained ankle and long bloody scrapes on her calves.†   (source)
  • Sprained.†   (source)
  • That's one of the meanest sprains I've ever seen and it should be in a cast, but I don't have any plaster of Paris with me.†   (source)
  • We had other guys out there for us playing with their own dings and sprains and at less than full speed or strength and with some pain.†   (source)
  • The lemonade stand was also still there, as was the sign that said LEMON-AID 50 CENTS PLEASE POUR YOURSELF (SPRAINED WRIST), followed by a new addition: ALL PROFITS GO TO CHARITY.†   (source)
  • If you want to know how I sprained it, I sprained it by climbing up on the roof because I got to Hebrew School early and the door was locked and there was a ladder attached to the side of the building.†   (source)
  • Even though we were missing Percy Harvin, who had sprained an ankle in that FSU game, our offense drove right down the field on a great drive in which I hit Carl Moore for a touchdown on third and goal.†   (source)
  • It's nothing but a sprained ankle.†   (source)
  • It was just a sprained ankle but it caused her to crawl up the traverse on her hands, and progress to that point had been slow and painful.†   (source)
  • Then I sprained a shoulder in my first drill with powered armor (they've got those practice suits rigged so that the instructor can cause casualties in the suit at will, by radio control; I got dumped and hurt my shoulder) and this put me on light duty with too much time to think at a time when I had many reasons, it seemed to me, to feel sorry for myself.†   (source)
  • And you drove all the way in to have me tell you that you sprained your back and charge you two dollars?†   (source)
  • If she put too much pressure on it, she'd sprain it all over again, or worse.†   (source)
  • A sprain would surely have healed by now.†   (source)
  • I don't think it's broken, but it might be a sprain.†   (source)
  • It was a relatively mild sprain, but it was irritating, because I had brought it on by easing up.†   (source)
  • The sprain didn't get any better with that blow to the shoulder.†   (source)
  • I had an AC sprain again, starting from the third play in the 2008 season.†   (source)
  • All that stuff about his ankle sprain.†   (source)
  • A high ankle sprain, the worst kind.†   (source)
  • But it was never fought out (that's the worst of fights on a rough hillside) for by very bad luck Thornbut trod on a loose stone, came flat down on his nose, and found when he tried to get up that he had sprained his ankle: a real excruciating sprain which would keep him from walking or riding for at least a fortnight.†   (source)
  • The next day I had an MRI on my shoulder, and we found out that it was AC separation (acromioclavicular joint separation) and a sprain.†   (source)
  • But the pain wasn't disabling, and as we expected, it would require the standard course of treatment as any bad sprain requires.†   (source)
  • At the one, I was so exhausted that they took me out and Percy Harvin, who actually turned out to have a hairline fracture and not just a sprain from that FSU game, scored on a direct snap and we led, 14-7.†   (source)
  • " "Don't sprain it any more.†   (source)
  • Did you hear about that fellow sprained his ear?†   (source)
  • We only had Doctor Phillips from Kerrith here once, that time she sprained her wrist.†   (source)
  • "Do you remember that afternoon when I sprained my ankle and you carried me home in your arms in the twilight?"†   (source)
  • There was water in the wash, and she helped Roberts bathe the sprained and swelling joint.†   (source)
  • O that he had sprained his ankle in the first place!†   (source)
  • One day he sprained his ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant.†   (source)
  • An oarsman sprains his wrist: the carpenter concocts a soothing lotion.†   (source)
  • Oh, there wasn't much of anything: couple chumps with bellyaches, and a sprained wrist, and a fool woman that thinks she wants to kill herself because her husband doesn't like her and——Just routine work."†   (source)
  • I expect I have sprained my ankle.†   (source)
  • And then, in the minister's own hand, was added: "Likewise for sprains, rub it in; and for the cholic, a great spooneful in the hour."†   (source)
  • "Help me on to that low horse," said Wakem to Luke, "then I shall perhaps manage; though—confound it—I think this arm is sprained."†   (source)
  • The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit—the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.†   (source)
  • Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.†   (source)
  • Nicholas had read a great many of these scraps, and was absorbed in a circumstantial and melancholy account of the train of events which had led to Miss Snevellicci's spraining her ankle by slipping on a piece of orange-peel flung by a monster in human form, (so the paper said,) upon the stage at Winchester,—when that young lady herself, attired in the coal-scuttle bonnet and walking-dress complete, tripped into the room, with a thousand apologies for having detained him so long after…†   (source)
  • He studied the science of herbs, the science of unguents; he became an expert in fevers and in contusions, in sprains and abcesses.†   (source)
  • Yes, and Miss Adele; they are in the dining-room, and John is gone for a surgeon; for master has had an accident; his horse fell and his ankle is sprained.†   (source)
  • He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as he could from a Frenchman into the wood.†   (source)
  • "I've sprained my ankle.†   (source)
  • It was they, these soldiers—wounded and unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder.†   (source)
  • " 'My wrist is sprained with ye!' he cried, at last; 'but there is still rope enough left for you, my fine bantam, that wouldn't give up.†   (source)
  • Some sprained shoulders, wrists, and ankles; livid contusions; wrenched harpoons and lances; inextricable intricacies of rope; shattered oars and planks; all these were there; but no fatal or even serious ill seemed to have befallen any one.†   (source)
  • But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.†   (source)
  • Her imagination was busy, her reflections were pleasant, and the pain of a sprained ankle was disregarded.†   (source)
  • Poor Brandon! he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraining of ankles.†   (source)
  • From the first accident of this kind, Father Vaillant escaped with nothing worse than a sprain, and he wrote Bishop Latour that he attributed his preservation to the Archangel Raphael, whose office he had said with unusual fervour that morning.†   (source)
  • It was a very obstinate sprain; the swelling would not go down, and the pain still continued.†   (source)
  • Porthos replied that in all probability his sprain would not permit him to depart yet awhile.†   (source)
  • Ah! if he could only manage to prevent it, if she could sprain her ankle before starting, if the driver of the carriage which was to take her to the station would consent (no matter how great the bribe) to smuggle her to some place where she could be kept for a time in seclusion, that perfidious woman, her eyes tinselled with a smile of complicity for Forcheville, which was what Odette had become for Swann in the last forty-eight hours.†   (source)
  • "I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them."†   (source)
  • "Thank you: I shall do: I have no broken bones, — only a sprain;" and again he stood up and tried his foot, but the result extorted an involuntary "Ugh!"†   (source)
  • "No, it's a sprain."†   (source)
  • I have to thank her for this sprain.†   (source)
  • Having once caught the bridle, he mastered it directly and sprang to his saddle; grimacing grimly as he made the effort, for it wrenched his sprain.†   (source)
  • When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse exercise, he rode out a good deal; probably to return these visits, as he generally did not come back till late at night.†   (source)
  • It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubb's after-oarsman chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed; and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place.†   (source)
  • Kindly, as usual — and, as usual, rather trite — she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.†   (source)
  • One scraped shin, one cut eyebrow, one split lip, one bloody nose, six smashed knuckles, one sprained thumb, and two loosened teeth.†   (source)
  • She didn't like it because I sprained my ankle first day she wore choir picnic at the Sugarloaf.†   (source)
  • …like the smutty photo he has shes as much a nun as Im not yes because theyre so weak and puling when theyre sick they want a woman to get well if his nose bleeds youd think it was O tragic and that dyinglooking one off the south circular when he sprained his foot at the choir party at the sugarloaf Mountain the day I wore that dress Miss Stack bringing him flowers the worst old ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids…†   (source)
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