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The Way that we went this day, was as full of Stones, as any which Craven, in the West of Yorkshire, could afford, and having nothing but Moggisons on my Feet, I was so lam'd by this stony Way, that I thought I must have taken up some Stay in those Parts.
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We have two which were lam'd by being blown down in a storm (a calamity which destroys great numbers almost every spring).
The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem Robert Bloomfield 1794
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When we had fir'd our second Volley of our Fusees, we thought they stopp'd a little, and I hop'd they would have gone off; but it was but a Moment; for others came forward again; so we fir'd two Volleys of our Pistols, and I believe in these four Firings, we had kill'd seventeen or eighteen of them, and lam'd twice as many; yet they came on again.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719
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The Way that we went this day, was as full of Stones, as any which Craven, in the West of Yorkshire, could afford, and having nothing but Moggisons on my Feet, I was so lam'd by this stony Way, that I thought I must have taken up some Stay in those Parts.
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Lord Ofmond ordered our carriage to ftop, that he might enquire whether any affiftance was wanted; the fervant was fent to afk the queftion, return'd, and told us, one of the gentleman's horfes had fallen, and had unfortunately fo lam'd himfelf that he could not proceed; my Lord now got out, and went to offer his fervl - ces 5 we continued in the coach 5 in a few mi -. uutes they both came back together, his Lord -
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