42 Metaphors for leg

Her legs were dainty, and the arch of her little feet was accentuated by her high- heeled shoes.

You see, the new hind-legs is a discharged soldier, and the front legs is an out-and-out pacificist.

Whittling my wing was a mere trifle, but my broken leg was a long time mending, and now it's shorter than it really ought to be.

IN FRESH PORK, the leg is the most economical family joint, and the loin the richest. 793.

His leg is all one thickness, from the shoulder to the foot, and the hoof is not cloven.

Roy's leg is first-rate, and he is up on the garden wall now like a cat.

If I were not a nationalist, I would say 'Glory to God, and blessed be His Prophet, who has smitten him whom we feared!"' "That broken leg might be a trick to put you off your guard," Grim suggested pleasantly.

LEGS AND FEETThe arms and thighs must be bony, as well as muscular, knees and hocks large and strong, pasterns very short and bony, feet large and round, and with short hair between the toes.

Them bow-legs of his was stretchin' ten yards at a clip, most like, and the boys says they could hear him hollerin' a mile away.

The long flashing legs were springs indeed, and the moment his hoofs struck the earth he was flung up again to a greater height.

The dog-leg to which father had referred was three poles about eight or ten feet long, strapped together so they could be stood up.

Legs, therefore, are the most expressive features of a Korak's countenance, when considered from an interior standpoint.

He did not scruple to say now that the bad leg had been pretence, and a portion of his scheme.

But when he's eatin' good his legs is jest great.

The fore-legs should be perfectly straight, strong, and heavy in bone; elbows close to the body; fore-feet round, compact with well-arched toes (cat-footed), and round, tough, elastic pads.

But try them, and see what trivial appendages one's legs may become,since the feet are not intended to touch these polished rounds.

We will define this attitude as a third crossed proceeding from the fifth; that is to say, the free leg of the fifth becomes the strong leg moving sidewise and slightly forward, thus crossing the back leg.

"Because the best legs to swim with are not the easiest to walk with.

"My legs are wingle," Says Ben to Claire.

There was one or more strings attached to the iron and extending up around his neck, evidently so to suspend it as to prevent its galling by its weight when at work, yet it had galled or griped till the leg had swollen out beyond the iron and inflamed and suppurated, so that the leg for a considerable distance above and below the iron, was a mass of putrefaction, the most loathsome of any wound he had ever witnessed on any living creature.

till Buzz's lungs were bursting, his eyes were starting from his head, his chest carried a sledge hammer inside it, his thigh-muscles screamed, and his legs, arms, neck, were no longer parts of him, but horrid useless burdens, detached, yet clinging.

Let him be never so well made, yet his legs are not matches, for he is still setting the best foot forward.

Wilson's leg is better, but might easily get bad again, and Evans' fingers.

People with short legs step quickly, because legs are pendulums, and swing more times in a minute the shorter they are.

"Then must we carry thee, messire," answered Beltane, "yet thine own legs were better methinkscome, let us begone.

42 Metaphors for  leg