spindle-shanked

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Adj.1.spindle-shanked - having long slender legs
spindle-legged
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden--what a sorry, set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
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The Duchess Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders-- of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St.
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There are about 300 of them, spindle-shanked elderly, but game for a laugh (not too much laughter, for it's a serious business being the Queen's bodyguard).
EVEN TORIES THINK BRIAN'S A BAW-HEID; Pest AND a plague
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