* In 2007, 66-year-old Al Hill amputated his leg below the knee using his pocketknife after the leg got stuck beneath a fallen tree he was cutting in California.

After he enters his own house as a guest of Penelope disguised as a beggar, Eurycleia bathes him and recognizes him by a scar just above his knee, which he got from a boar while hunting with his grandfather Autolycus.

" I got well enough to do what you see in the parade there, but I couldn't do most of Kenny Ortega's knee spins and things like that that we had worked on.

" Having kept secret from Stoke a niggling knee injury Matthews had been carrying, Blackpool got their £ 3, 500 for the player.

She eventually got a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, but after suffering a serious knee injury at age 15, she gave up her dancing career.

But my hip has to be replaced and a knee has to be replaced and I've got to lose 150 pounds before they can do that.

The fight got a lot of publicity in Swedish and international press, but ended with an anticlimax when Sapp's corner threw in the towel after only 45 seconds, after Kruth hit Sapp with a knee to the liver.

Graziani got the snap, tripped over his own fullback's foot, and threw a 45-yard touchdown pass to OS Steve Smith off his own knee.

And that day she got a telegram saying that her father's knee was better,

Suspecting that fellow teacher Carter may be avoiding war duty, he muses, " I'd give a good deal to know whether he's really got a gammy knee ", to which an acerbic colleague responds, " I suppose we couldn't get some chubby cherub to give him the white feather " as a means of accusing the suspected malingerer.

“ Shoot the first man that goes back on you after you have elected him intelligently ;” he said, “ see that you hunt him down and shoot him .” In another speech he declared “ Before I starve in this country I will cut a man ’ s throat and take whatever he has got … The Workingmen ’ s Party must win, even if it has to wade knee deep in blood and perish in battle .”

West Ham were playing in the Barclays Asia Trophy in Beijing when Boa Morte got his studs stuck in the ground, twisted his knee and suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Randy Couture and Shawn Tompkins helped train him for the fight in which he got a second round KO by landing a flying knee and following up with an uppercut straight-left combination.

Things got worse for Marsh as he picked up a knee injury which ultimately and prematurely ended his professional career.

Corley got up and tried to weather the storm by fighting back, but he was taking a lot of punishment as he decided to go down to one knee in order to take a rest.

In 1935, while Stern was in a car riding home from a football game in Texas, the auto got into an accident, injuring Stern badly enough that his left leg had to be amputated just above the knee.

He injured his knee in early 2000 in an accident backstage at a WCW Saturday Night taping, where Armstrong got run over, severely injuring his knee.

After suffering a knee injury the following year, he never really got back on track.

On How Dare You !, one of the main games was ' Teach Them a Lesson ', where children got the opportunity to drench their teacher or representative from their school in gunge while sitting above a knee deep filled gunge tank.

Walker sustained a serious knee injury against Swansea City, so the goalscoring responsibilities fell very much firmly the way of McGinlay who did not disappoint and scored the goal that got Bolton promoted on the final day of the season.

When he crashed into a right-swinging car during a training ride in April, he got away with road rash and a bruised right knee and less than a week later he rode Rund um den Henninger Turm, though he did not ride the race to its end.

On 29 September 2003 Job twisted his knee in training and was expected to be out of action for four months, just after scoring the clubs winning goal against Everton with then Middlesbrough manager, Steve McClaren saying, " It's a huge blow for Joseph because he has been playing well lately and he also got our winner against Everton.

The Nuggets only got four games out of Williams during the 1997-98 campaign due to him tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

You've got no business up here ''.

She finally regained her balance and got up in the saddle.

He said now, `` I've got the perfect headquarters set up.

Mary Jane got up, quietly, and walked away.

Every so often the diminishing sound of a car came under the trailer as it slowed down for the wreck then speeded up again as it got clear.

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

`` Dr. Glenn, I've got a lot of blood '', Fred spoke up, `` plenty of it.

He looked at her as she spoke, then got up as she was speaking still, and, simply and wordlessly, walked out.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

Then they disappeared and Scotty got up and went into his own room and got into bed.

He got caught up into it and became a different person.

That got everybody up.

A Dr. Charles Taft clambered up on the stage and got the actors to hoist him up to the box.

`` Excuse me '', he said in Berlitz English, and got up and left them, to bathe and dress.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

He was about to get up so I got out, slamming the door.

All the women got up and offered their chairs, and when they were all seated again, the guests made their inquiries and their explanations.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

`` Well '', he said, `` got your man fixed up nice down there.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

About dawn he got up to blow.