Shanks also made a reputation for himself as a fielder.

But verily, my shanks will soon be no thicker than my bowstave!

Having donned a nightshirt of coarse cotton, he knelt for several minutes in a devout attitude by the side of his bed, then rising opened the window, took the turnip from the bureau, and snuggled it beneath his pillow, inserted his bare shanks between the sheets, and opened at a marked place a Bible bound in black cloth.

Adv. on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu &c 270 [Lat.]; en route &c 282.

There were urchins there, scarce two feet high, with round bullets of bodies and short spindle-shanks, who could knock blackbirds off the trees at every shot, and cut the heads off the taller flowers with perfect certainty!

He was a decrepit and very dirty old man, in a tight blue frock-coat, and swathed as to his spindle shanks with scarlet leggings.

The shanks and feet of a buck being called umbles, were formerly made into a pie for the retainers or feudal servants.

" "Call what 'twelve 'n' 'arf,' Sheep-Shanks?" from the train.

"I see the gentleman's sixteen," quoth the man who had called the White Bear "Sheep-Shanks," "and go fifty cents better!"

The men had wool clothes with brass buttons that had shanks on em.

Together we journeyed continually and prodigiously, covering thousands of miles during those weeks, in all sorts of directions, by all sorts of ways, in troop trains and cattle trucks, in motor-cars and taxi-cabs, and on Shanks's nag.

Dramatized and composed by Ethel Smyth; poetic version by Edward Shanks.

CHOIR GEMS NO. 2; w D. M. Shanks, and others; m Clyde Willard, pseud. of J. Lincoln Hall, and others.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. (PWH); 29Mar62; R292881. SHANKS, DOROTHY NARYON.

SEE Shanks, Edward.

SHANKS, EDWARD.

Dorothea Naryon Shanks (W); 16Feb62; R291337.

Dorothea M. Shanks (W); 11Sep67; R417206.

CHOIR GEMS NO. 2; w D. M. Shanks, and others; m Clyde Willard, pseud. of J. Lincoln Hall, and others.

Beatrice Kean Seymour (A); 30Jan56; R164396. SHANKS, D. M. SEE Choir gems no.

© on pref., notes, introd. & appendix; 2Jun33; A62941. Louise S. Spencer (W); 1May61; R275226. SHANKS, DOROTHEA MARYON.

SEE Shanks, Edward.

SHANKS, EDWARD.

Dorothea Maryon Shanks (W); 30Mar61; R273261.

Occasionally we caught a glimpse of these sable damsels, but only one female came near usa meagre old woman who darted past with an axe in her hand, and sprang up into one of the huts like a harlequin, showing at the same time more of her long shrivelled shanks than was strictly decorous.