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Examples
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That the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and lame,
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February, and green pease and new potatoes in March, can hardly make a man happy, even though nobody pays for them; and the feeling that one is antecedum scelestum after whom a sure, though lame,
Framley Parsonage 2004
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Well, the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame,
JOKERMAN Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1983
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You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame,
GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1979
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To wait for your future like a horse that's gone lame,
ONLY A HOBO Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1963
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He has to hire a man to dig the garden, coz his back gets lame,
A Heap O' Livin' 1920
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Till everyone thought he _must_ make himself lame,
The Wallypug in London Alan Wright 1910
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To do works of charitie his hands were nothing lame,
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Consider again the complaint of the sick, blind, and lame,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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And think not, when your verse and sense are lame,
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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