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Definition of Limped
1. limp [v] - See also: limp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limped
Literary usage of Limped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Where we had once ^^^^ ^^^_ limped painfully THE GALATA BRIDGE. along, choosing
the softest stones that we could find, horse-cars now climb the steep ascent ..."
2. God's Puppets by William Allen White (1916)
"When Kilworth, supported by the policemen, limped to his car, he heard the crowd
cat-calling and hissing. The horsemen about his car tried to screen him ..."
3. A History of the Baptists: Traced by Their Vital Principles and Practices by Thomas Armitage (1887)
"As he crossed the limped Pharpar and readied those plains of Paradise watered by
many fountains and the golden Abana, a world of beauty and bloom thirty ..."
4. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1815)
"... ONE ARM, AND ONE LEG, AS HE limped THROUGH ST. JAMES'S PARK YESTERDAY. [From
the same, July z6."] BLIND as I am, methinks a camp I view— Many the tents, ..."
5. Ohio Legal News (1895)
"... of the New York Supreme Court, he limped forward and said, sadly : "Your Honor,
I sat on a box of matches the other day and the matches took fire. ..."
6. Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens (1840)
"Mr. Codlin on the other hand, cursed his fate, and all the hollow things of
earth (but Punch especially), and limped along with the theatre on his back, ..."
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