Captain Ahab kicked ye, didn't he?" "Yes, he did," says I --"right here it was." "Very good," says he --"he used his ivory
leg, didn't he?" "Yes, he did," says I.
What place stop 'm that fella
leg?" quoth Daughtry, pointing to the space which the member would have occupied had it not been absent.
Thus spake the wanderer who called himself Zarathustra's shadow; and before any one answered him, he had seized the harp of the old magician, crossed his
legs, and looked calmly and sagely around him:--with his nostrils, however, he inhaled the air slowly and questioningly, like one who in new countries tasteth new foreign air.
So I went to a tinsmith and had him make me a new
leg out of tin.
Toto was usually a well behaved dog, but this time he was angry and snapped at the man's
leg again and again.
His
legs were stiff and awkward, for there were no knee-joints in them; so that presently he bumped against Jack Pumpkinhead and sent that personage tumbling upon the moss that lined the roadside.
Only I could not become a guard because I was lame of one
leg and Tiger-Face would not have me.
Before bedtime, I was fetched by the man with the wooden
leg to appear before him.
The little lady was stretching out both her arms, for she was a Dancer, and was lifting up one
leg so high in the air that the Tin-soldier couldn't find it anywhere, and thought that she, too, had only one
leg.
For, the moment the spur touched him, his left hind
leg had reached forward in a kick that struck the stirrup a smart blow.
Just as he was passing along the passage, the boy opened the door into the second horse-box on the left, and Vronsky caught a glimpse of a big chestnut horse with white
legs. He knew that this was Gladiator, but, with the feeling of a man turning away from the sight of another man's open letter, he turned round and went into Frou-Frou's stall.
And there's Jim chained by one
leg, with a ten-foot chain, to the
leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain.