1 Scarlett stood for a moment, ankle deep in mud as the guns lurched by.
2 Why had God invented children, she thought savagely as she turned her ankle cruelly on the dark road--useless, crying nuisances they were, always demanding care, always in the way.
3 "Mind you don't turn your ankle on those stepping stones," said the soldier, taking her arm.
4 In these spots the mud was ankle deep and her slippers stuck in it as if it were glue, even coming completely off her feet.
5 He crossed his legs and bent over, clutching his ankle with both hands.
6 A little girl who lived on the Black Hawk road was bitten on the ankle and had been sick all summer.
7 Then he gripped the sides of the bed, and shut his teeth together, and turned white with agony, while the doctor pulled and wrenched away at his swollen ankle.
8 The latter part of April Jurgis went to see the doctor, and was given a bandage to lace about his ankle, and told that he might go back to work.
9 Tom got in, and Haley, drawing out from under the wagon seat a heavy pair of shackles, made them fast around each ankle.
10 When Wildeve came on to that spot his ankle was caught by something, and he fell headlong.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 11 Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 12 He had had one of those violent strains of the ankle which leave a man helpless.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 13 When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 14 As I did the same I felt the hand of the man behind me grab at my ankle, but I kicked myself free and scrambled over a grass-strewn coping.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 15 I stood up and found my foot with the loose heel swollen at the ankle and painful under the heel; so I sat down again, took off my shoes, and flung them away.