83 Words to use with legs

In the British Museum there is a most instructive specimen of the leg-bones, showing that the fibula was represented by the external malleolus and by a flat tongue of bone, which extends up from it on the outer side of the tibia, and is closely ankylosed with the latter bone.

Leg muscles, called into use without training, were sore and stiff.

I think I was growing leg-weary, as I had seen happen to horses, and from that ailment there is no relief.

"Ax your pardon, Mr. Grimes," said Adam solemnly, "but what wi' people's legs, an' cheer legs, an' the legs o' tables,not to mention sideboards an' cab'nets,which, though not 'aving no legs, ain't to be by no manner o' means despised therefore,w'ot wi' this an' that, an' t'other, I am that con-fined, or as you might say, con-fused, I don't know which legs is mine, or yourn, or anybody else's.

" I called mother, got the leg-ropes, and set off, pulling my sun-bonnet closely over my face to protect my eyes from the dust which was driving from the west in blinding clouds.

Yellow-leg plovers.

Wonder if a feller could get any boot-leg liquor?" "Better leave it alone," Old Heck warned, "that kind's worse than none.

Nothing can be more suitable for its purpose then the "Workman's Stool:" the seat is precisely like that of a modern kitchen chair (all wood), slightly concaved to promote the sitter's comfort, and supported by three legs curving outwards.

Thus she dresses a husband for herself, and after takes him for his patience, and the land adjoining, ye may see it, in a serving-man's fresh napery, and his leg steps into an unknown stocking.

First of all men of his breed was he to enter this lone Northland village, and at the thought an exultancy came upon him, an exaltation, and his followers noted that his leg-weariness fell from him and that he insensibly quickened the pace.

The muscles of the calf of the leg, acting on the thigh bone, above the knee, keep the body from falling forward, while another set in front of the thigh helps hold the leg straight.

Describe Brigade headquarters and previous leg-pulls of Brigade Major.

Only the leg-rest kept her from slipping off the pony.

Well, Clausen, you and Wills try some punts over there, and do try and get the leg swing right.

Whether the claim had any foundation or not the tea was none the less an institution, undoubtedly generating a friendly, sociable atmosphere throughout the office; and now Willie pulled aside the screen in the corner and disclosed the gate-leg table over which Miss Wiggin exercised her daily prerogative.

Make an incision through the skin a little below the leg-joint, bend the leg at this point and break off the bone.

George Jones broke his leg coasting and is in bed.

The pepper ranges from a dark bluish black to a light silver grey, the intermediate shades being preferred, the body colour coming well down the shoulder and hips, gradually merging into the leg colour.

The one end of this tube communicates with the boiler, and the other end with the atmosphere; and when the pressure of the steam rises in the boiler, the mercury is forced down in the leg communicating with the boiler and rises in the other leg, and the difference of level in the legs denotes the pressure of the steam.

Come, you must learn more manners: as to stand at your brother's back, to shift a trencher neatly, and take a cup of sack and a capon's leg contentedly.

These boots, very necessary to men who must ride through thorns and bushes, were either drawn up so as to cover the thighs or turned over from the knee downward, like the leg-covering of Rupert's cavaliers.

"I cannotI dare not," he cried; "it is the place of tortureof the enginesthe strappadothe water-drop, the leg-crushers!"

One leg dangles as though it were baited and were angling for a bite.

The by-lane was interrupted at one place by a deep pool of water, through which the detachment plunging, half-leg deep, some of the weak-legged stumbled and fell, getting their cartridge-boxes under, and spoiling their ammunition.

Nor should he 'like a ghost without legs drift along before the wind.'

83 Words to use with  legs