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As the gelding neared the wire, it seemed to go lame but then began to run again.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013

They never cast shoes, go lame or put their hooves down holes, except when the Management deems it necessary, as when the forces of the Dark Lord are only half an hour behind ...

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2011

Age Of Aquarius was in front and still going strongly when Johnny Murtagh felt him go lame and pulled him up.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2010

The sickness unto death is not the artisan's fear that his arm will go lame; the suburbanite arm could not earn him the price of his quinine water.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well," he said, "from what that Russian told us—and we got to understand each other by and bye—one of the killers had his ribs broke, and it seems that another would go lame for life.

From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus




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