323 adjectives to describe legs

In that case he would probably have broken his left leg and arm and collar bone, just as he did break them, but his ribs would have been all right.

Knowing that, owing to our mishaps, we could not do anything more that winter, and as I dreaded the idea of lying there on my back with a broken leg for weeks, and perhaps months, I prevailed upon Harrington to go the nearest settlementabout 125 miles distantto obtain a yoke of cattle, and then come back for me.

Once, when I was a little older, I came upon one of his discarded wooden legs as I was playing in the garret of the house.

Then he struck for his domus et placens uxor at as rapid a rate as his little dumpy legs could carry him.

He is a big dog, with longish thin legs, and I suppose the water had less grasp on them, than upon mine.

" After some searching, Samuel found the pipe in Abe's hat-box underneath the old man's beaver, and produced from his own pocket a package of tobacco, whereupon the two sat down for a quiet smoke, Samuel chuckling to himself every now and again, Abe modestly seeking from time to time to cover his bare legs with the skirt of his pink-striped night-robe, not daring to reach for a blanket lest Samuel should call him names again.

At this minute there are several pairs of fat legs a-straddle this contrivance.

she wist: Her coats were kiltit, and did sweetly shaw Her straight bare legs, that whiter were than snaw.

Little by little, amid all these hostile forms, he seemed to recognise a certain pair of legs that went on just before: sturdy legs, that yet faltered now and then in their stride, and, looking higher, he saw a broad belt whose edges were notched and saw-like, and a wide, mail-clad back that yet bent weakly forward with every shambling step.

" "With that lame leg?" "Went on horseback.

How do you know I won't inform the doctor at once what kind of an outfit he has tied to?" He planted far apart his thick legs in their soiled blue trousers, pushed back his greasy linen boating hat and stared at me with some amusement.

Vastly pleased with the daily bottle of stout we got for him with such difficulty, from supplies, he faced the awful daily dressing of his shattered leg without flinching, pretending to great comfort and an excellent position of his splint, which his crooked leg and my practised eye belied.

He followed the line of least resistance and bolted around the wide circle with tremendous leaps, gathering impetus as he ranthen stopping in mid-career by the terrific process of hurling himself in the air and coming down on four stiff legs and with his back humped so that the rider sat at the uneasy apex of a pyramid.

" Ann sighed and swung her brown legs.

" Bud, after bathing the swollen leg, glanced up sharply.

First and last, this was done three times, and then the image was completed, eighty cubits in height, and eight cubits at the base from knee to knee of the crossed legs.

He faced his man with little in-and-out steps, breaking to the left, breaking to the right, feeling his way, while Craggs, with a dull, malignant eye, pivoted slowly upon his weak leg, his left arm half extended, his right sunk low across the mark.

And he has crossed o'er mountain, field, and fell, On that good steed, that seems to bear him well, The hackney of the Friars of Orders Gray, His own stout legs!

But it was in vain; the wounded leg refused to bear his weight, and he was forced to relinquish his design.

THE FANTAIL PIGEON.This curious variety is inferior in point of size to most of the other varieties, and is characterized by having a short, slender bill, pendent wings, and naked legs and feet.

My weary legs stepped out to this wizard music, and the spell of it lulled my fevered thoughts into the dull patience of the desperate.

They were all out except one, and he had a sore leg.

Fowls with yellow legs should be avoided; they are generally of a tender constitution, loose-fleshed, and of indifferent flavour.

This gentleman was slender of limb, and tall; his lower extremities were clad in a tight pair of short breeches, beneath which, scarlet stockings plunged themselves into enormous shoes, decorated with huge rosettes; his coat was half-military, half-fop; and a long sword buckled round his waist, knocked against his fantastic grasshopper legs.

It was grey weather, and yet thin old tailor Kilian stood in his alpaca coat, which he kept for indoor use only, and his blue woollen stockings hung down so that his miserable little bare legs were visible above them and his thin lips were trembling, while he murmured the words of the proclamation.

323 adjectives to describe  legs