In its midst was a blackened tree-trunk, limbless, riven; a forest giant blasted by some mountain storm.
"In the Brooding Wild"
Ridgwell Cullum
At these times she went about the pantry chalk-faced and tragic-eyed; but generally, when her suffering was becoming more than she could endure, from visualizing Michael blind, or limbless, or, still worse, an imbecile through shell-shock, a clear voice would speak to her, her super-self would repeat the contents of her treasured message.
"There was a King in Egypt"
Norma Lorimer
And I should chase after you and beg of you to marry me, all the same,-limbless and unrecognisable as you may be!
"Banked Fires"
E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi