18 examples of knock-kneed in sentences

my chicken, I shall scrawl Just what I fancy as I strike it, Fairies and Fusiliers, and all Old broken knock-kneed thought will crawl Across my verse in the classic way.

There was a comical-looking little knock-kneed fellow in the middle of the street a wandering minstrel, well known in Preston by the name of "Whistling Jack."

They are often double jointed somewhere, flat footed, knock-kneed.

But the narrow-chested and knock-kneed boy staggering over the sun-baked asphalt no longer concerned him.

Slow and sure must the knock-kneed chewer of cuds step from log to log.

Am I slightly knock-kneed or am I not?

" Portuguese Jim was the sole professional criminal of the town, a weak, good-natured, knock-kneed vagabond, who stole hens, and spent every winter in the House of Correction as an "idle and disorderly person.

A thin, knock-kneed officer shambled across the poop to him.

A very old cab crawled into view, with a knock-kneed horse which staggered aimlessly about the empty streets, and with an old cocher who looked about him as though doubtful as to his whereabouts in this deserted city.

On parade he saw it for what it wasa mob of knock-kneed, sniffling lads with just enough strength to suck a cigarette; anaemic clerks, fat cooks, and loafers with just enough wind to last a furlong march; huge beery old mechanics and ex-"Tommies," forced into this coloured galley as a condition of their "job at the works "; and the non-native scum of the city of Gungapurwhich joined for the sake of the ammunition-boots and khaki suit.

Listen, you pusillanimous, knock-kneed shrimp?

How presently, afar off over the plain at their feet, they saw one of the conquered race of earlier inhabitants, a "Formorian" of huge size and repulsive ugliness coming towards them, leading his horse by the halter, an animal larger, it seems, than six ordinary horses, but broken down and knock-kneed, with jaws that stuck out far in advance of its head.

"Why, the lantern-jawed, bug-eyed, rubber-necked, double-jointed, knock-kneed, splay-foot, hair-lipped, putty-brained country Jake!

A knock-kneed man who knows how to use a machine-gun and has one to usewhich is also quite importantcould mow down all the leading heavy-weights of the United States and England, with the latest champion leading the charge.

long joints: straight legs, rather bowed than knock-kneed: feet large and well developed, so that in walking they may spread out: toes slightly splayed: claws hard and curved: the pad of the foot neither horny nor hard but as it were puffed and soft: short-coupled: a back bone neither projecting nor roached: a heavy tail: a deep bark, and wide gaping chops.

On the contrary, my spirits rose, and I declared my readiness to follow this paltering, knock-kneed Brother of Pity.

here she come, her eyes snatched wide open by the two little pigtails that stuck out behind, walkin' knock-kneed and circular, as some little girls does, and stiff er'n a poker in her j'ints from scart-to-death and gladness.

Hundreds of eccentric figures crowded the galleriessome absurdly fat, some ludicrously thin; some old, some young; some bow-legged, some knock-kneed; some short, some tall; some brown, some yellow; some got up for effect in gorgeous wrappers; and all more or less hideous.

18 examples of  knock-kneed  in sentences