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Definition
hampered the action or progress of
or:
walked with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment)
or:
walked with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment)
- 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.Chapters 23-24 (28% in)
- Why would a man with your responsibilities want to waste time with a filly that's got to be hobbled and blindfolded before you can even keep a saddle on her?"Chapters 7-8 (23% in)
- Looking more closely, Newt saw why the Captain had not bothered to stop the escape: the mule was hobbled.Chapters 9-10 (91% in)
- The sight of a man so addled as to try and get away on a hobbled mule was too much for Deets.Chapters 9-10 (91% in)
- He managed to get the hobbles on his own horse and the pack mule, but had to let the mare go.Chapters 32-33 (2% in)
- In the next flash she saw the horses jumping and trying to shake off their hobbles.Chapters 32-33 (30% in)
- The woman seemed to derive a certain amusement from the way he hobbled around trying to gain control of his limbs.Chapters 36-37 (43% in)
- Blue Duck hobbled the horses, then came and looked down at her.Chapters 48-49 (71% in)
- "Take him," the Captain said, pointing to a steer with a split hoof who was hobbling along in the rear.Chapters 66-67 (43% in)
- He had camped on a little bluff, exhausted, and after hobbling the horse, fell asleep like a stone.Chapters 77-78 (10% in)
- Then he hobbled to the bank, wishing he had time to cut the two arrows out of his leg.Chapters 93-94 (36% in)
- Augustus hobbled over, drawing his pistol, and saw that both horses were down, their throats cut, their blood very bright on the green weeds and bushes.Chapters 93-94 (40% in)
- Then to Pea Eye's amazement he crawled out of the cave, hobbled down to the water's edge, and dug in the mud with his knife.Chapters 93-94 (51% in)
- Somehow he hobbled south all night.Chapters 93-94 (80% in)
- Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.Chapters 93-94 (82% in)
- He rested three hours and then hobbled on through another night.Chapters 93-94 (83% in)
- He stuffed one pistol under his belt, holstered the other, took his rifle and a pocketful of jerky, and hobbled across along the bank to the animal trail.Chapters 95-96 (7% in)
- He started at once, hobbling southeast toward Miles City.Chapters 95-96 (8% in)
- He hobbled over the plain through the long afternoon and twilight, finally collapsing sometime in the night.Chapters 95-96 (14% in)
- Bert Borum, the best roper in the outfit, caught eighteen of the horses and they were brought back, hobbled, to the remuda.Chapters 97-98 (76% in)
There are no more uses of "hobbled" in Lonesome Dove.
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