1 Then I bethought me of a crutch, the shape being much the same, and I borrowed one in the village, and displayed it to my sister with considerable confidence.
2 Miss Havisham was taking exercise in the room with the long spread table, leaning on her crutch stick.
3 "This is a gay figure, Pip," said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift.
4 One is lame, poor thing, he's got a crutch.
5 Never till I'm stiff and old and have to use a crutch.
6 Juozapas had only one leg, having been run over by a wagon when a little child, but he had got himself a broomstick, which he put under his arm for a crutch.
7 In the end she had asked where he lived, and said that she was coming to see him, and bring him a new crutch to walk with.
8 And he carved out little wooden feet for her, and crutches, taught her the psalm criminals always sing; and she kissed the hand which had wielded the axe, and went over the heath.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE RED SHOES 9 The following Sunday, when the family was going to church, they asked her whether she would not go with them; but she glanced sorrowfully, with tears in her eyes, at her crutches.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE RED SHOES 10 Suddenly the door opened, and a woman as old as the hills, who supported herself on crutches, came creeping out.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 11 Both are tall fellows with whiskers, Fred handsome in the English style, and Frank much better, for he only limps slightly, and uses no crutches.
12 Scarlett don't any more need your arm than she needs crutches and I'm not so peart, as Will observed.
13 Perfectly cured he certainly was not, for he supported himself forward on crutches to give evidence.
14 A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
15 On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table, but not touching it, "was brought here.