So Robin, with all the empty road to himself, strode along whistling merrily, his bags and pouches bobbing and dangling at his thighs.

Two bucks' thighs on his shoulders with bladders of fat between them.

He slapped his thighs to suggest that his involuntary shudder was due to having sat too long.

The clean white silk shirt fitted his broad shoulders, the wide rider's belt clung to his supple waist, the leather chaps were shaped to his Greek hips and thighs.

When they have arrived at hundred (which they never fail to let you know by giving an extra shout), they may be ordered to stand up, and bring into action the joints of the knees and thighs.

'On examining his feet, I discovered what I had never either seen or heard of beforenamely, blood freely oozing out at the coronet of all four feet; if anything, the hind-feet were the worst, and, showing that this bloody discharge at coronets had commenced during progression and before he was stabled, the inside of the thighs were all shotted over with blood, which had been thrown up by his feet while he was trotting or walking.

The skin was worn off from by breast, arms, and thighs, against the rough bark of the tree.

Huckstep then whipped him from his neck down to his thighs, making the cuts lengthwise of his back.

Then the executioner, who is ordinarily a negro, armed with the long whip of a coachman, strikes upon the reins and thighs.

"Ranaway, negro fellow Johnfrom being whipped, has scars on his back, arms, and thighs.

"Left, my negro man named Georgehas marks of the whip very plain on his thighs.

The under tail coverts, thighs, and feet are pure white.

The plumage of the sides of the belly is long, and hangs down over the thighs.

The feathers of the thighs and tarsi are light hair-brown, mottled with darker lines.

Indeed he went very aukwardly at first, the drawers being too heavy on his thighs not used to bear any weight, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but by a little easing where he complained they hurt him, and by using himself to them, at length he took to them very well.

Thereupon two of these savages advanced and commenced with knives to cut the meat from the thighs and fleshy parts of the animal in large chunks, while the poor creature uttered the most terrible cries.

" Fancourt(314) says of the natives of Yucatan that "in their wars, and when they went to their sacrificial dances and festivals, they had their faces, arms, thighs, and legs painted and naked."

A Sanscrit poet declares proudly that his beloved is so borne down by the weight of her thighs and breasts that she cannot walk fast; and in the songs of Halâ there are numerous "sentiments" like that.

The Arabian poet Amru declares rapturously that his favorite beauty has thighs so delightfully exuberant that she can scarcely enter the tent door.

The women not only wept, but lacerated their bodies with sharp shells and stones, even burning their thighs with fire-sticks....

"During this visit of condolence," Falkner continues, "they cry, howl, and sing, in the most dismal manner; straining out tears, and pricking their arms and thighs with sharp thorns, to make them bleed.

A ball went through the upper part of one of her thighs, but she neither flinched nor uttered any cry; and it was not known that she was wounded until, after the danger was past, her mother saw the blood soaking through her clothes.

"The frog is considered in this country as a disgusting animal, altogether unfit for the purposes of the kitchen; whereas, by the efforts of French cookery, the thighs of this little creature are converted into a delicate and estimable dish."

The latter are easily divided according to the number of guests, being commonly little more than gristle; there are choice bits also in the shoulders and thighs; the ear also is reckoned a delicacy.

In his intervals of sense, he exclaimed against the cruelty both of the captain and of the chief mate, and pointing to his legs, thighs and body, which were all wrapped up in flannel, he endeavoured to convince me how much he had suffered there.