Legged

Examples

• He was bow-legged from much horseback riding. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The Muhammadan merchant, tinman, shoemaker, or vendor of trifles sits cross-legged on the floor and reaches after any article you may want to buy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A short man was his Lordship, broad-chested and bow-legged, but proud of the fineness of his foot and ankle, and always caressing his garter-knee. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She followed him behind the dell of brambles to his wheeled dwelling into which Venn mounted, placing the three-legged stool just within the door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He is interested in his very boots and observes even them attentively as Mr. George sits smoking cross-legged in the chimney-corner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yer as good as there,' said the long-legged tramper, pointing out before him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• What manner of thing was upon me I did not know, but that it was large and heavy and many-legged I could feel. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The Turks sit cross-legged in them, and work and trade and smoke long pipes, and smell like--like Turks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A man came slinking along, went into the hut, gave a cry as if he had seen a ghost, and legged it as hard as he could run until he was out of sight. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You're not one of the weak-legged ones, you ain't. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Going to the hearth to set the candle down upon a round three-legged table standing there, he stumbled against something. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Then she came running, carrying something in her hands and he saw her running long-legged through the snow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Maybe you can call to mind that monument in Weatherbury church--the cross-legged soldier that have had his arm knocked away by the schoolchildren? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Who is that spider-legged gorilla yonder with the sanctimonious countenance? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• How could he stand against the three-legged woman, and the man with his eye in his cheek? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The chairs and tables were thin-legged and easy to upset. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The one-legged man in the little signal-hut by the road stared out from his security, like a crab from a snail-shell. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The three-legged table had been drawn close to the bedside, and on it there were two bottles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• A three-legged spider connected the metal rim of each front wheel to a brass hub, upon which rested a collecting brush. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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