Lamed

English were forced to retreat again, leaving several of their "lamed" vessels behind. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)

I might have writ sooner, but along in the fall my arm was kind of lamed with rheumatism, and when I got over that, there was Mandy Harmon's weddin 'things to do, -- Pelatiah Harmon's daughter, down to the corners, you know. ❋ Susan Coolidge (1870)

There's a chance you'll be "lamed" from the stage, but there's also a chance you'll gain a fan, or even a friend. ❋ Meghan Overdeep (2011)

Hundreds and hundreds of innocent human beings have been murdered in these drone attacks; many thousands more have been driven from their homes, and terrorized into lives of mental anguish, their psyches lamed by trauma, upheaval and the ever-present dread of death raining down on them from the skies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For some weeks past I had been troubled with an incessant sickness at the stomach which would neither take or keep food, and soon after came on an inflammation in the right leg, which completely lamed me for many days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My conscience got so expansive and fine-strung it lamed me across the shoulders to carry it around with me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Time goes on; Tremble is lamed by an accident and becomes a dissolute alcoholic. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

A strange encounter leads his wife to being critically injured, thanks to a kick in the head by a horse, and Wallace lamed and in recovery - while his wife is not recovering. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

So I thought back to the time I hed about who had lamed Rurik, the horse I was given after I had learned to ride like an adult. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had jumped him stupidly, and he had been injured, and then I walked him home and told my father that the stableboy had lamed him and that I had noticed it as soon as I was away from the stable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Laurent Jammett had been a voyageur for the Hudson Bay Company before an accident lamed him four years earlier. ❋ Unknown (2007)

After her affair with Roger, Joan seems to have set her siren-sights on younger dudes, including her semi-lamed husband who lacks “brains in his hands.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The worse alternative is for it to linger on as a mediocre lamed and wounded animal-to fester and stink. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The novella -- it concerns a preternaturally efficient cleaning lady named Beenie who persists in turning up unwanted reminders from the protagonist's past -- starts out as a kind of domestic horror story, then swerves suddenly the cleaning lady turns out to be God, or rather one of the thirty-six lamed wufniks who, in Carroll's version, constitute God into an emotionally fraught tale of unwitting injury and attempted amends. ❋ Gregory Feeley (2009)

Kathleen, and finally Jack; the sister born hopelessly retarded, the stroke that lamed and silenced patriarch Joe Sr., the plane crash that nearly dispatched Ted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It will be a full year after the Presidential election before we get the new armored vehicle into Afghanistan, and to see if that will prevent some of the casualties that have left, as of September 19th, just under 40,000 American troops dead, lamed or otherwise wounded. ❋ Unknown (2009)