He was clubfooted; I expect his kin had not cared to show him at the feast. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Those clubfooted Shadowmasters know I'm here but they don't know about you. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams of Steel]
It's an ambitious, clubfooted train wreck that only gets better with each viewing. From Wordnik.com. [Core beliefs] Reference
Jake was clubfooted, lumbering, with his jaws grown into great jowls of bone, his arms elongated and ending in hooks. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
It all begins with the misadventures of Julius Marantz, a clubfooted Jewish-American physicist who has invented an anti-gravity device. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Estrin Takes on the Rapture in The Lamentations of Julius Marantz] Reference
I did not think that I had any of the qualities necessary for such a thing, being neither humpbacked nor clubfooted, neither a giant nor a dwarf. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Instead of calling over the waiter whoâd been serving drinks to the party all evening, the clubfooted man went to the bar himself and bought a Chartreuse for Glickman. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives] Reference
The Triplets of BellevilleDirected by Sylvain ChometThe tone of this droll, thrillingly odd animated film isn't easy to describe; neither is its loopy plot about a melancholy French cyclist named Champion who's being trained for the Tour de France by his clubfooted grandma. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Judgement: Movies] Reference
I had a star football player and was he clubfooted. From Wordnik.com. [Sun Bloggers] Reference
For several years the clubfooted Grizzly ranged the Sierra Nevada from. From Wordnik.com. [Bears I Have Met—and Others] Reference
Many mules are clubfooted, especially behind, where it seems to cause little or no inconvenience. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
But we have no earthly chance of getting through at present: our clubfooted pal will see to that all right. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference
But Foster was not eaten up by Old Brin -- of course his pursuer was the clubfooted bear -- and something extraordinary must have happened to save him. From Wordnik.com. [Bears I Have Met—and Others] Reference
But seeing I was free of any physical deformity, to say nothing of the fact that I in no way resembled the clubfooted man I had seen on the platform at Rotterdam, why had the young lieutenant accepted me so readily?. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference
That, then, was why the young lieutenant had glanced down at my feet at the station at Goch, The messenger he had come to meet, the bearer of the document, the man of power and authority, was clubfooted, and I was he!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference
Their songs are usually fairly simple, and since they've tackled everything from rabid garage blowouts to clubfooted rockabilly stumbles to gleaming techno rave-ups, all you have to do is pick what you can already play and you're set. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Of course he was called "Old Clubfoot" and "Reelfoot" by people who did not know him, just as every big Grizzly has been called in California since the clubfooted-bear myth became part of the folk lore of the Golden State, but his feet were all sound and whole. From Wordnik.com. [Bears I Have Met—and Others] Reference
"Mr. David Bell, our Marster, was born clubfooted. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
"About your friend, the clubfooted man," she went on, "I'm rather puzzled. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference
Jove’s keen eyes for me in slumber while I hold him clasped in my embrace, and I will give you a beautiful golden seat, that can never fall to pieces; my clubfooted son Vulcan shall make it for you, and he shall give it a footstool for you to rest your fair feet upon when you are at table.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
A clubfooted king gave rise to a round toed shoe. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of the Shoe « Colleen Anderson] Reference
Close Jove's keen eyes for me in slumber while I hold him clasped in my embrace, and I will give you a beautiful golden seat, that can never fall to pieces; my clubfooted son Vulcan shall make it for you, and he shall give it a footstool for you to rest your fair feet upon when you are at table. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Well, they called him clubfooted; his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0085-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Couture for the clubfooted?. From Wordnik.com. [Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'] Reference
From now on we must temper our natural instincts with suspicion, withhold our compassion for cripples, paraplegics, victims of third-degree burns, Thalidomide babies, the birthmarked, clubfooted, scarfaced, harelipped, and hunchbacked, until we make certain they have human forebears. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
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