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Spindle-shanked

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Spin´dle-shanked`
a.1.Having long, slender legs.
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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
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
 
 
 
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