It had been a miracle that she herself had escaped, if escape it could be called-a mere sightless, armless and legless torso, with no means of communication with the outside world, she was more dead than alive.
"Bedside Manner"
William Morrison
The armless dinner-chairs are the best.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Tan-yung was subject to a disorder which without any warning cast him to the ground almost daily in a condition of writhing frenzy; the one who had opposed him was paralysed in all but his head and feet, while those who stood about were either blind, lame, camel-backed, leprous, armless, misshapen, or in some way mentally or bodily deficient in an insuperable degree.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc