limp

• They began to limp, and to rub their shins and shoulders, their heads and arms, very vigorously, as though they believed that friction was a sovereign remedy for aching bones Why didn't you stop, Hunter, when I ordered you to do so?" —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• While the waist and all the lower part was limp, the collar preserved an unnatural stiffness--a stiffness that extended to the breast; this part stood up as if within it there were some invisible form. —  Adventures in Many Lands
• The testicle will now hang limp, and there is no longer any tendency to retraction. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• There is great depression of muscular force; the animal stands limp, as if excessively fatigued. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• She lay twisted and limp, the whites of her eyes showing between the lids Good God, she's gone!" —  Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day

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