Agesilaus was of small stature and unimpressive appearance, and was lame from birth.

She was best known for ordering her male servants to be crippled " as the lame best perform the acts of love ".

While Yahweh demands animals that are " without blemish " ( Leviticus 1: 3, NRSV ), the priests, who were " to determine whether the animal was acceptable " ( Mason 143 ), were offering blind, lame and sick animals for sacrifice because they thought nobody would notice.

In a letter to Burghley three years later Oxford offered to attend his father-in-law at his house " as well as a lame man might "; it is possible his lameness was a result of injuries from that encounter.

He somehow became crippled, and although Origen recounts a story that his leg was deliberately broken by his master, Simplicius states he had been lame from childhood.

" son of Hephaestus " ( i. e. a bronze-smith ) was also lame.

* In Norse mythology, Weyland the Smith was a lame bronzeworker.

Madison was involved in the project mainly because he was a delegate to the lame duck Confederation Congress, which was meeting in New York.

His " reaction was ... lame ;" he eventually flew to Berlin, but he appeared to have " lost his once instinctive, ultra-swift power of judgement ".

This meant that, every other year, although a new Congress was elected in November, it did not come into office until the following March, with a " lame duck " Congress convening in the interim.

Already a lame duck Vice President, he was elected to the Senate by the South Carolina state legislature and resigned the Vice Presidency early to begin his Senate term because he believed he would have more power as a senator.

According to Abrams, the production team considered ways to resurrect Shatner's deceased Kirk character, but could not devise a way that was not " lame ".

By then Lezo was one-eyed, lame and had a hand prevented because of various injuries suffered years ago ( it was known as “ Half-men ”), but none of these defects was reflected in the medals to not had the idea of having defeated a weak enemy.

In Normandy especially she was venerated as guarding the lame and those who suffered violent death and ill-tempered husbands.

Mary's death was evidently of natural causes, as she herself complained she had become lame from the swelling of her legs in April and diagnosed dropsy.

Plutarch wrote that Harpocrates was the second son of Isis and that he was born prematurely with lame legs.

He was lame, which was why his brother Neileus would not let him rule, but the Delphian oracle bestowed the kingdom upon Medon.

Periphetes was lame in one leg, like his father and had one eye like a Cyclops.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

Luckily both women knew my position and if anyone suffered in their opinion it was not I ''.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

I could never forget the gaiety with which, when he was both blind and deaf, he let me lead him around his rooms to look at some of the pictures ; ;

To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

He had not because he was both poor and ambitious.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

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

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.

it was perhaps 80 feet high and had been artfully constructed of logs.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.

He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

He could feel his own feet, iron-shod, striking repeatedly until the body was limp.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

Laura was sitting in an easy chair about eight feet away.

Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.

Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.

It was a grotesque hen, five or six feet tall.

He was rubbing snow on the kid's legs and feet.

The loss in growth of sawtimber because of damage by destructive agencies in the United States in 1952 was estimated to be about 44 billion board feet.