Out upon thee for a sober, long-legged, doleful wight.

He was a solemn, long-faced, and long-legged man, with reddish hair and pale complexion, who seldom or ever smiled, and at the bench always looked as if he were standing on a stool, he stooped so immoderately.

Presently Eric saw where Little John stood among the others, a head and shoulders above them all, and he called to him loudly, "Halloa, thou long-legged fellow in scarlet!

Mandy, freckled, long-legged, and tow-headed, balanced herself easily upon one ill-shod foot and rubbed herself softly with the other.

Chuck led Old Pie Face for Skinny to ride in the parade and Bert took Red John, Old Heck's most showy saddle horsea long-legged, high-stepping, proud-headed, bay geldingfor Carolyn June to use, for she, too, had declared her intention of joining in the grand promenade with which the Rodeo would open.

The yearlings were being sold firsttall, long-legged, skittish, wild-eyed creatures, who had run free upon the upland pastures, with ragged hair and towsie manes, but hardy, inured to all weathers, and with the makings of splendid hunters and steeplechasers when corn and time had brought them to maturity.

Yonder stands, against the shore, a bittern, motionless in that wreath of mist which makes his long-legged person almost as dim as his far-off booming by night.

As they were coming down again they saw a very thin, long-legged pig of the old Irish sort, and the pig began to follow them.

A long-legged mule, after gibbing enough to satisfy his own self- respect, condescended to trot off with us up the tramway, which lay along a green drove strangely like one in the Cambridgeshire fens.

He is only trying to get level with the long-legged people, just as the short-sighted man tries to get level with the long-sighted man by wearing spectacles.

She met several of the guests, but assiduously avoided them, until at last she saw the thin, long-legged keeper going towards his cottage with Dash, the faithful old spaniel, at his heels.

But this I now perceive is a very absurd fear; for no one in the world who had seen Moll three years agoa half-starved, long-legged, raw childcould recognise her now, a beautiful, well-proportioned young woman in her fine clothes; and so my mind is at ease on this head.

"Misto Richmond," he said, with great earnestness, "you may not know it, but three times since thet long-legged jay-hawker's been gone you hev plainlyand if my ears do not deceive me, an' they never hevyou have plainly called me 'Captain Wells.'

There was something inexpressibly comic about these long-legged animals.

I remember distinctly hearing that Mr. Woods was very eccentric in his last days, and I haven't a doubt he was raving mad when, he left all his money to a great, strapping, long-legged young fellow, who is perfectly capable of taking care of himself.

Meanwhile, Henri, by dint of yelling, throwing his arms wildly about, and digging his heels into the sides of his long-legged horse, succeeded in coming close up with the bull, which once or twice turned his clumsy body half round and glared furiously at its pursuer with its small black eyes.

Buzzards flew up suddenly, out of rice-fields, as the ship rounded a curvecreatures big and long-legged as the storks of Holland and Algeria.

It was worth going a long way to see the pleasure with which the old farmer and his wife greeted the great long-legged youth who towered so far above them there on the station platform.

With deference to your grace, he seems to me Like any long-legged grasshopper to be, Which ever flies, and flying springs, And in the grass its ancient ditty sings.

They was no use trying to run down them long-legged gallopers.

It was only a glance, but, none the less, I had time to see that the fellow had a hairy Cossack cap on his head, and that he was a great, long-legged, broad-shouldered brigand, with a sabre at his waist.

The long-legged spindling "flapper," who was never quite sure where to stow her legs, became the reserved, well-proportioned girl with the mysterious gleam of puberty in her eyes.

On the other hand, slab-sided, long-legged hogs were the most plentiful of domestic animals, ranging in great, half-wild droves through the forest.

Once I saw a terrific contest between one of these long-legged, long-nosed porkers and the lone, pet alligator of our lake.

I was neither child nor womana long-legged girl of about thirteen, still in short skirts, and feeling that I ought to have long ones.