All 9 Uses of
hobbled
in
The Kite Runner
- They chased him on the street, and mocked him when he hobbled by.
p. 8.9hobbled = walked with difficulty
- We found Ali hobbling frantically across the foyer.
p. 35.2hobbling = walking with difficulty
- I hobbled after him, spikes of pain battering my scraped knees.
p. 53.5hobbled = walked with difficulty
- In the rearview mirror, Baba was hobbling up the Taheris' driveway for one last fatherly duty.
p. 163.5hobbling = walking with difficulty
- Baba hobbled next to me, the general and his wife beside their daughter.
p. 170.7hobbled = walked with difficulty
- And how was I going to reconcile this new image of Baba with the one that had been imprinted on my mind for so long, that of him in his old brown suit, hobbling up the Taheris' driveway to ask for Soraya's hand?
p. 226.1hobbling = walking with difficulty
- One of them was hobbling on one leg, his other leg amputated below the knee.
p. 259.8
- The whole world rocking up and down, swooping side to side, I hobbled down the steps, leaning on Sohrab.
p. 291.8hobbled = walked with difficulty
- I locked the door and hobbled to the manager's office in the lobby, one hand clutching the rail along the walkway for support.
p. 313.7 *
Definition:
walked with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment)
or:
hindered (made the action or progress of something difficult)
or:
hindered (made the action or progress of something difficult)