I cannot hop or skip; indeed, I scarce can hobble, so bent and twisted have I grown.
"The Green Forest Fairy Book"
Loretta Ellen Brady
Whenever happy children played beside the Tall Pine Tree, he would hobble toward them, saying: Good day to you!
"The Green Forest Fairy Book"
Loretta Ellen Brady
Soon afterwards Yarloo went off on the tracks of the horses, which he had had the forethought to hobble before letting them go the previous afternoon, and when Stobart was quite sure that everybody was soundly sleeping, he went over to the packs, stuffed his pockets with tucker, and carried his own and Yarloo's saddles out of sight over the sand-hill.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman