It has eight of these
long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.
And he bent his
long legs, swatched in tight riding breeches, and sat down in the chair, too low for him, so that his knees were cramped up in a sharp angle.
In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have
long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.
He missed it, fell back, and sat with his head sunk between his
long legs, his antennae quivering, as if he were waiting for something to come and finish him.
He wore a red mantle, and stretched his
long legs forward in French fashion.
What struck me as most remarkable about this assemblage and the hall in which they were congregated was the fact that the creatures were entirely out of proportion to the desks, chairs, and other furnishings; these being of a size adapted to human beings such as I, whereas the great bulks of the Martians could scarcely have squeezed into the chairs, nor was there room beneath the desks for their
long legs. Evidently, then, there were other denizens on Mars than the wild and grotesque creatures into whose hands I had fallen, but the evidences of extreme antiquity which showed all around me indicated that these buildings might have belonged to some long-extinct and forgotten race in the dim antiquity of Mars.
It was a big horse, tall and bony, with
long legs and large knees and feet.
He has a big, loose-jointed figure with absurdly
long legs. His hair is tow-color and lank, his eyes are green, and his mouth is big, and his ears -- but I never think about his ears if I can help it.
The body was powerfully developed and firmly fixed upon
long legs. Muscular arms, and a general air of decision gave him the appearance of a hardy, jolly, companion.
Jonah, who had not before seen Fred's white complexion,
long legs, and pinched delicacy of face, prepared many sarcasms in which these points of appearance were wittily combined with the lowest moral attributes.
She laughed, and the Major did too, at his droll figure on donkey-back, with his
long legs touching the ground.
I wish I could have done so; I would have had
long legs then.