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wooden leg
1. Then he went fishing through the liberally disheveled contents of his parents’ lives, contents that lived in disarray on a low coffee table propped up by three wooden legs and some house bricks
2. table propped up by three wooden legs and some house bricks
3. The glass probably held over a half gallon, the wooden legs were six inches high and it was a wide-mouth with a thin but springy clip-down stopper
4. With all his might, he pushed the vagrant back, causing him to fall into the empty chairs near the calculus girls, breaking off wooden legs, clattering them to the ground along with the bum
5. If you think George, who has a wooden leg, and Richard, in an old photo, displaying a hand and a hook, might be related, you may be on to something
6. understanding the mechanics of how a monkey with a wooden leg kicks seeds out of
7. Layers of paint, the last poor imitation of walnut, destroyed its value or any it might have once had, even more than the metal supports that had replaced the original wooden legs at both ends and in the middle
8. shocked to notice he had a wooden leg, under his arms he
9. So also he disbursed three hundred francs for a wooden leg that she thought proper to make a present of to Hippolyte
10. One saw him running about the village as before, and when Charles heard from afar the sharp noise of the wooden leg, he at once went in another direction
11. They heard in the passage the sharp noise of a wooden leg on the boards
12. The puppet, seeing death staring him in the face, was taken with such a violent fit of trembling that the joints of his wooden legs began to creak, and the sovereigns hidden under his tongue to clink
13. The same that had the wooden leg
14. We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg
15. She heard the thumpthump of his wooden leg in the hall She picked up her quill to resume her writing but laid it down when she heard Will outside the office and then he stopped
16. There was a brass tray by his side on wooden legs, and on it were two beer bottles, a dirty plate, and a saucer full of cigarette ends; he held a
17. Wooden legs were the stout trunks of trees
18. Susannah mutter’d Pray’rs for Deliverance as Cocklyn hopp’d about the Cabin with her, tapping his wooden Leg, and using her bare and beauteous Breast as if ’twere the Shield of Achilles, forged by the God of War himself
19. pattern, bearing on his breast the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the soldier's cross of SaintLouis, and adorned, in addition, with a coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden leg
20. What did that relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of jealousy
21. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn
22. Since having a wooden leg he had dispensed with his crutches completely and now used a magnificent ebony walking stick that Emilia Thorne had given him
23. “And he is a man with a wooden leg?”
24. Just beyond it, however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed that he had a wooden leg
25. As she spoke I saw approaching us a grey-headed old man with a wooden leg—a man who was dressed in a blue frockcoat and carrying a staff
26. People like Lyamshin and Telyatnikov, like Gogol's Tentyotnikov, drivelling home-bred editions of Radishtchev, wretched little Jews with a mournful but haughty smile, guffawing foreigners, poets of advanced tendencies from the capital, poets who made up with peasant coats and tarred boots for the lack of tendencies or talents, majors and colonels who ridiculed the senselessness of the service, and who would have been ready for an extra rouble to unbuckle their swords, and take jobs as railway clerks; generals who had abandoned their duties to become lawyers; advanced mediators, advancing merchants, innumerable divinity students, women who were the embodiment of the woman question—all these suddenly gained complete sway among us and over whom? Over the club, the venerable officials, over generals with wooden legs, over the very strict and inaccessible ladies of our local society
27. Only three days later, when they had all forgotten about him, and no one was thinking of attacking him, he added something in conclusion to the effect that when Zinovy Prokofyevitch went into the hussars the impudent fellow would have his leg cut off in the war, and then he would come with a wooden leg and say; "Semyon Ivanovitch, kind friend, give me something to eat!" and then Semyon Ivanovitch would not give him something to eat, and would not look at the insolent fellow; and that's how it would be, and he could just make the best of it