As he'd described the children with their withered limbs, she'd felt that old familiar tug, that insistent call to do something.
The playback on the briefing-room vidscreen showed the contorted froglike faces, the withered limbs and sealed eyes, of the dead.
Advertising billboards blanketed the underpass, and a beggar crouched under one of the columns, displaying his withered limbs.
Ancient Egyptian paintings and carvings depict otherwise healthy people with withered limbs, and children walking with canes at a young age.
Beneath the filthy garment, that arm was not the withered limb he had been expecting to feel.
As not with other men, one looked at his head last, after the withered limb.
Color was beginning to return to his face, strength flowing fresh to withered limbs.
The Elle-men are stooped and old, and are happiest when lying in a pool of sunlight to warm their withered limbs.
Perchance a withered limb is but idleness that can be quickened by energy.
His hand lifted to touch her withered limbs, then dropped again.