Like a horse that can no longer be ridden

Usage examples of lame.

Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have allowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.

Shall I war against the Lame One because of the spite of a wandering Caphar vagabond?

My lame friend, angry at this arrangement, which only left her the very bad part of Lady Alton, could not help lancing a shaft at me.

Madame Dubois, in the character of mistress of the house, did the honours admirably, and my lame friend, in spite of her pride, was very polite to her.

He was lame, but he walked so adroitly that his defect did not appear.

As he and Eccles walk together toward the first tee he feels dragged down, lame.

In this lame cage they were lowered into the excavation, a journey that took them through storage and maintenance areas, restricted sectors, down along porous shale and rock, past timber underpinnings and assemblies of masonry and steel that formed support for subtunnels and emergency access routes, the elevator suddenly dropping into open air, free of its shaft, cabling into the darkness of the inverted cycloid, air currents, oscillation, a bucketing descent through drainage showers and rubble-fall, the cage shaking so badly that Billy sought to convince himself there was a pattern to the vibrations and changes of speed, a hidden consistency, all gaps fillable, the organized drift of serial things passing to continuum.

Old Giles Habibula is too old, Jay, too ill and lame, to be running through black and filthy rat-holes on his knees, and dancing up and down flimsy little ladders in the dark.

Wait just a second, for poor, lame and suffering old Giles Habibula to snatch a breath of blessed air.

James de Guider assisted his brother Stephen into the court--the first time the lame old gentleman had been in Templetown since the famine.

He was wondering how one hid a full-sized horse who was too lame to run, but Gula seemed to have forgotten this problem.

I had proclaimed myself as a novice in the mimic art, and had entreated my lame friend to be kind enough to instruct me.

My lame friend told me I had played well, but not so well as in the part of waiter, which really suited me admirably.

I was tired of playing a wearisome part, and had left off going to see my lame friend, but she soon reproached me for my inconstancy, telling me that I had made a tool of her.

She told me that I must take her to see her lame friend, and to my great disgust I had to go.