That the author of the Religio Medici, mounted upon the airy stilts of abstraction, conversant about notional and conjectural essences; in whose categories of Being the possible took the upper hand of the actual; should have overlooked the impertinent individualities of such poor concretions as mankind, is not much to be admired.

That the author of the Religio Medici, mounted upon the airy stilts of abstraction, conversant about notional and conjectural essences; in whose categories of Being the possible took the upper hand of the actual; should have overlooked the impertinent individualities of such poor concretions as mankind, is not much to be admired.

It grows twenty feet high and stands on aërial roots resembling inclined stilts.

The difficulty on the Red River was that the Rebel sharp-shooters from the banks made the management of the stilts irregular.

At one corner of my upper field the fence crosses an abrupt ravine upon leggy stilts.

Every time the dog looked at it he thought that he had never seen anything so ugly and misshapen as the baby elk, with its long, shambly legs, which hung down from the body like loose stilts.

In front of us was the unit of civilisationthe police-station, wooden, on wooden stilts (as all well-built houses are here), to ensure a draught of air beneath them.