"One-armed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... land. We will show you the springs and you may drink; the water is good. We will be friends and when you come we will be glad. We will tell the Indians who live on the other side of the great river that we have seen Kapurats (one-armed—the Indian name for Powell) and that he is the Indian's friend. We will tell them ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... dilated with terror. From around the curve of the road came the quick beat of hastening footsteps, the sobbing sound of panting breath, and between her and the sinking moon there passed an attenuated one-armed figure, with a pallid sharpened face, outlined for a moment on its brilliant disk, and dreadful starting eyes, and quivering open mouth. It disappeared in an instant among the shadows of the laurel, and Clarsie, with a horrible fear clutching at her heart, sprang to her feet. . . . the ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly
... it not? If that great one-armed Shade Could look down on the bargain he'd—swear, I'm afraid (If his death-purged bold spirit held yet ought of earth). And I fancy 'twill move the gay Frenchman to mirth To hear this last story of shop-keeping JOHN— Or his huckster officials. The Frenchman, the Don, The Dutchman, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, Sep. 24, 1892 • Various
... up, or there will be much music in this bleating fold; and you know I am as utterly useless with a crying child, as a one-armed man ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... I don't know," interrupted McKnight, "that a man either ambidextrous or one-armed, jumping from the Washington Flier, would be more likely ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart |
