Finally, when the Sunday School classes marched into church for the last hour of the service, there would be added to the congregation young boys and girls, secured to their seats by the eyelocks of stern teachers.

Among those forced to adjust to life as a 'limbie' was John A. Lee, who, in his novel Soldier, left a searing description of the wounding in France that cost him his left arm.

… merely observing that if you were to give weight to such an objection, there is not a panel who would not be entitled to the same benefit …

The elder women were literally old hags - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.