When the jovial band strolled forth upon long walks the cheerful "lameter" bargained for three miles an hour, and kept up with the best. ❋ George Reid (1862)
"lameter" boy who was once present in a house where Burns was a guest. ❋ George Reid (1862)
And the biggest one is it affects the lameter flow of the air. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It doesn't matter how hard I blow on it, we don't have lameter flow anymore. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The King grieved for her with exceeding grief and sent after her that one-eyed lameter, blind of the left,502 for that he was his chief Wazir, a stubborn tyrant and a froward devil,503 full of craft and guile, bidding him make search for her in all the lands of the Moslems and buy her, though with a ship-load of gold. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Such was her case in company with the Wazir, the monocular, the lameter; but as regards Nur al-Din the Cairene, when the ship had sailed with ❋ Unknown (2006)
Where is the one-eyed Wazir, the lameter, of the crooked faith14 the worthy believer? ❋ Unknown (2006)
'Whereas, as long as you live, Harry, you will never be anything more than a little pale lameter.' ❋ Unknown (2004)
I'm looking about the country-side and I see but a horde of lameter privatemen and half-pay officers maimed in limb or mind sitting about the dram bottle, hoved up with their vain-glory, blustering and blowing, instead of being honest, eident lairds and farmers. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Mr. Ready-to-halt is but a name on John Bunyan's pages -- a name set upon two crutches; but, then, his simple name is so suggestive and his two crutches are so eloquent, that I feel as if we might venture to take this life-long lameter and his so serviceable crutches for our character-lecture to-night. ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)
The little lameter went hopping across the street, and called to some children "to look at the style!" ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)
'Ye hae made a bonny leddy o' her -- a lameter (cripple) I doobt, like yer wife, 'he answered, with indignation. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
"You may take him for a poor lameter," said one of the Eldin Clerks, a sailor, with equal friendly frankness to a party of strangers, "but he is the first to begin a row, and the last to end it." ❋ George Reid (1862)
As they were being led to prison the galleon [FN#512] arrived with the Princess Miriam and the one-eyed Wazir, and when it made the harbour, the lameter landed and going up to the King gave him the glad news of his daughter's safe return: whereupon they beat the kettledrums for good tidings and decorated the city after the goodliest fashion. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
"But as you are rich, Jane, you have now, no doubt, friends who will look after you, and not suffer you to devote yourself to a blind lameter like me?" ❋ Unknown (1848)
"Pap-in"; but his ankle left him a grievous lameter, hirpling on a staff; and, although his brown scratch and his Kilmarnock helped to hide the bump upon his temple, the dregs of it fell down upon his e'e-bree, which, to the consternation of everybody, became as green as a docken leaf. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
Hagar over young Ishmael in the wilderness of Beersheba, and crying that her old grannie, that was a lameter, and had been bedridden for four years come the Martinmas following, was burning to a cinder in the fore-garret. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
The goose that was sitting on her eggs, among clean straw, in the inside of it, was also rendered a lameter for life. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
