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  • Judy shared her story with me to share with you, so here's her account of her hunt for a club-footed hog.

    Hunt for a Club-Footed Hog 2009

  • The tourists thronging around the gates to Central Park outside looked like club-footed marshmallows next to her in their Uggs and floor-length parkas.

    Elizabeth Nicholas: The Iceman Cometh Elizabeth Nicholas 2011

  • While THE PROWLER is subtle and complex, unwinding with a seductive rhythm, SHIELD FOR MURDER is a drum solo by a club-footed spastic.

    VinceKeenan.com 2009

  • But there is a counterpoint slogan, which comes out of the cynical bouche of Prince Talleyrand, the club-footed but elegant lothario who was a survivor of the Revolution in France: "Above all, not too much zeal."

    Dr. Charles G. Cogan: Toujours de l'Audace! Dr. Charles G. Cogan 2011

  • The tourists thronging around the gates to Central Park outside looked like club-footed marshmallows next to her in their Uggs and floor-length parkas.

    Elizabeth Nicholas: The Iceman Cometh Elizabeth Nicholas 2011

  • At least now I can cross "experience drum solo by club-footed spastic" off my bucket list.

    VinceKeenan.com 2009

  • The voice of these Lamentations is a sixty-something, club-footed scientist named Julius Marantz, an obsessive researcher who suffers from both forbidden knowledge and and insistent conscience.

    The Lamentations of Julius Marantz by Marc Estrin: Book summary 2010

  • Even when his wife, Queen Mamare, elected to become a Baptist, and invited in a little, weazened, sweet - spirited, club-footed Baptist missionary, King John did not object.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • Philip Carey is a prickly, club-footed orphan whose youth in a rural vicarage is sustained by dreams of greatness he's a Dickens protagonist with no waiting benefactors.

    Five Best 2010

  • On his way to a rendezvous point, he meets and falls for club-footed farmer's daughter Velma (Joan Leslie).

    John Farr: Classic "Under The Radar" Gangster Movies 2010

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