By rights, he should have been sitting downstairs in the drawing-room describing his afternoon's adventures, or listening to the afternoon's adventures of other people; the room itself, the gas-fire, the arm-chair-all had been fought for; the wretched bird, with half its feathers out and one leg Lamed by a cat, had been rescued under protest; but what his family most resented, he reflected, was his wish for privacy.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The next village was four miles distant, and when they reached the place, Carl, who had Lamed his foot on a stone, was glad enough to sit down.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
You say you were Lamed by it-but you seem to have recovered from that.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine