She saw in him only the creature maimed and suffering, dignified by the near approach to the supreme hour, a man weighted with the sense of failure, and the knowledge that his last chance had come and gone, and that it, too, had passed him unprofiting.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The State is asked to go in social reform only as far as it goes in judicial administration-it is asked to secure for every man as effectively as it can those essentials of all rational and humane living which are really every man's right, because without them he would be something less than man, his manhood would be wanting, maimed, mutilated, deformed, incapable of fulfilling the ends of its being.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
maimed and bruised and stunned it had been-now alive, tearing him, bringing on to his bending shoulders an awful tide of knowledge: Everything is gone-your wife, your boy, your friend, your work....
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole