As Cripple Billy, he is rural Irish, physically twisted, carrying a useless leg and hopelessly in love with a local girl who mocks him.
"As morbid as it might be," he wrote, "the very best happenstance would be for Violet's prompt natural demise, that any infection in the useless leg would become systemic, with consequent septic death".
In that sense, my useless legs are a kind of banner that my family rallies around.
Alex draped him around his shoulders, Kent's head hanging down on one side and useless legs — one so unnaturally protruding — on the other.
It was hard for him to imagine a future with his useless legs and his monstrous face covered in regenerated skin.
As Franklin Roosevelt approached the stage at the 1936 Democratic Convention, the steel braces on his useless legs and the support of his son's arm allowing him, in great pain, to simulate walking, he was jostled, and he crashed to the ground, scattering the pages of his speech.
He figured a way to steady his guitar in his lap, above his useless legs, wedged a butter knife between his thumb and fingers that were stiff and clumsy, and, over time, learned to strum with one hand and pinch the strings with the knife in a way that makes the instrument seem to cry, as if alive.
"I'd get up but... .. he gestured at his useless legs.
He had contracted polio at 15 months, resulting in a useless left leg, and his parents thought that he would never thrive in Nigeria.
This dude's physically inept son is playing cub-level soccer and, despite his hatred for him, his clumsy son, his stupid useless son, those legs you gave him are trash, Lynette!
Dubus says, "Only my leg's useless.
