lamed has the sound of 'L' as in 'look'. From LearnThat.org.
English were forced to retreat again, leaving several of their "lamed" vessels behind. From Wordnik.com. [History of Holland] Reference
He feels the shadow of a great hand -- lamed gimel. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)] Reference
The horse was lamed and could put no weight on the hoof at all. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Not that any lady would have him … lamed and scarred as he was. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
Kitty had fallen over a stone wall, and lamed her foot -- who knew?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
He forgot about everything else until he had lamed one of the forelegs. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
My horse fell and lamed himself, or I should have been here much sooner. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
And, one supporting the other, the blinded man and the lamed man carried on!. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
By the pressure they exert on the sole corns result, and the animal is lamed. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
One camel snapped his leg, and many mules and horses were strained and lamed. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
What I think happened is that his pony stumbled into a hole and lamed hisself. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
Why, there's been two collar-bones broken this half, and a dozen fellows lamed. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
Pressure or actual cutting of the sole is bound to occur, and the animal is lamed. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
I'm very glad! 'and he shambled off as if he were lamed for life, poor thing, while. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
"Still, we're safe, and I've known men killed or lamed for life getting off a horse.". From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
Gunnar cut at Hallgrim's arm hard, and lamed the forearm, but the sword would not bite. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
Lucy wondered if he was thinking of his ship, scorched and lamed just beyond those palms. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
"It'd be pretty tough if you fired both barrels again, and lamed your left shoulder, too.". From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
By this time, our lamed cook had rekindled his fires, and the water was once more boiling. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The accident lamed me, however, for the time, and consequently put an end to my adventures. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832] Reference
Toémon looked up suspiciously as Kakusuké entered, supporting the lamed and maimed Mobei. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
A single fallen body, a lamed horse straying, a heavy shield hurled aside, the first of many. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
And just such a paralysis seems for six long weeks to have lamed the highest powers of America. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
When the monkey boy heard this he got down and lamed the mare by running a splinter into her hoof. From Wordnik.com. [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference
For a brief introduction and a glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic words, see the first installment. lamed. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)] Reference
Many a sharp jerk lamed the hand that held the rope that restrained the leg that piggy wanted to run with. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The animal is easily lamed, bruised sole becomes frequent, and corns sooner or later make their appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
County: people will think no better of him for having lamed me, disinherited me, and practiced a fraud on them. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Both were lamed by the same cause, inflammation of the front of the leg, in which part I also had begun to feel some smartings. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
I had not rode forward above an hour, when my horse stumbled over something in that most barbaric of highways, and lamed himself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
Viking expeditions, but since he had returned lamed and nearly helpless from his last voyage he had aged greatly, and men called him. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Then one of them disappeared, we never knew where; and another lamed herself in some way, and, notwithstanding all our care, she died. From Wordnik.com. [Gems Gathered in Haste A New Year's Gift for Sunday Schools] Reference
Jo however was in mourning because when he gave his black a trial gallop, it was discovered that he was badly lamed in the right knee. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
With a loud scream she let him go; and sitting down upon the floor, declared herself lamed for life, beyond the possibility of recovery. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
They tied it by one leg, lamed in battle fifty years before, and pulled it about till they got tired, when they threw it on a dung-heap. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The bad news is, while lamed up in the rear end, she somehow acquired her sister's problem, that of numerous bloody tears in her rectum. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
He drilled regularly with the volunteers while they continued to assemble in his field, and until an accident had temporarily lamed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
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