Gout-ridden

1909, Maud Margaret Key Stawell (as “Mrs. Rodolph Stawell”) (translator), The Return of Louis XVIII by Gilbert Stenger, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Chapter 2, p. 67, Could anyone have imagined that the day would come when this prince, whose gout-ridden feet could only move in spasms, would in his turn be acclaimed in Paris as though he too were a conqueror?

c. 1945-1950, Jack Spicer, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape” in Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (editors), My Vocabulary Did This to Me, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008, Gout-ridden angel, out of these terrors, Out of the mind’s infidelity and the heart’s horror Deliver my natural body.

Oh, how I have been deceived! For years I have worshiped that miserable gout-ridden professor.

Judith Herries, sister to Raiseley and first cousin to David, had, many years before, bewildered into matrimony the Honourable Ernest Bligh, who in his gout-ridden and exceedingly ill-tempered old age had become Lord Monyngham, then Viscount Rockage.