You see that I am but a poor cripple.
"For a poor old cripple with rheumatism, I can wield a powerful war club."
So this poor cripple was the fine, strong, manly brother who would help him to lead his armies!
I couldn't go back to Wolfe with nothing but a sob story about a poor cripple and a dead man and a grief-stricken daughter.
Writing to a cousin in 1677, when he was in his fifties, Blundell signed himself 'the poor old cripple'.
What could two poor cripples have done that they didn't want the police to know about?
Will you really try to prevent me, a poor cripple, from reclaiming my position in society and the comforts my husband's wealth can provide?
No one would believe a poor, beautiful cripple capable of murder.
Now here was her husband, putting the poor cripple in a movie!
It is the more terrible as he is a poor little inoffensive cripple.