I can't very well walk you to the blacksmith shop back in town, for you'd be lamer than ever, and I'd probably have to stable you; and I can't leave you with the mail and go and get the smith to come out here.
"Jack of the Pony Express"
Frank V. Webster
Several times Jeremiah came out of the parlour in which his brother John was sitting in expectant silence, and, passing through the shop, looked up and down the market-place in search of the old lame woman, who was charitably employed to deliver letters, and who must have been lamer than ever this morning, to judge from the lateness of her coming.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"It is impossible," said I, "especially as the horse is not my own, and seems considerably lamer than at first; but let me not detain you."
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009