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    leg


    legged


    legging


    legs


    1. They hugged sensuously and his hands lingered on her chest and ass while she played them over him and straddled his leg


    2. Are they the type of people that are going to hang on to your leg while you’re climbing toward the


    3. He sits there, panting, looking at the corpse that almost broke his leg


    4. ” Toby scratched his leg


    5. Sasha thought her leg might have been crushed by the impact


    6. Her leg was pinned


    7. The pain in her leg began to surface as sharp needles escaping from her leg


    8. He fell to one knee, but not before he grabbed a hold of her leg


    9. He returns very quickly with a handful of kitchen roll and proceeds to dab at my leg


    10. ” He patted David’s cold leg

    11. A large black dog of undetermined breed lies dreaming in front of the bar, it’s front leg twitching as it sleeps


    12. When the device was already on, i put my hand on the man’s leg


    13. He reaches inside, begins feeling his way down her leg to her foot


    14. Russ sees the explosion at the front of the car, starts over to help John, but Ahmed clings to his leg with both arms, stopping him


    15. leg, which is wedged between the cushion and the door


    16. She rubs her foot on his leg under the table, seems to be considering what to say


    17. She rubs her foot up and down his bare leg


    18. He sets Khalid down on a sandy patch of ground, begins to bind his leg as Khalid drifts in and out of consciousness, moans


    19. ’ I said, gripping it firmly as I swing my leg over the ivy-covered wooden bar


    20. My son was brought from school in a state of shock – his leg was

    21. Was that fur she could spy tufting out of his trouser leg bottoms?


    22. His left leg complained with every


    23. I wouldn't honestly have worried about a broken finger or two for me, or even a leg if it would protect my children, but not being able to do anything if they chose to punish Will


    24. ‘Oh Mum! We’re not pulling your leg


    25. If supervisor McManus hadn’t been asleep in the locker room for the whole of that night, resting his bum leg, he would have seen the upright corpse seated at the Boston Monitor rear entrance


    26. He nodded his head and slunk away, his bad leg disappearing through the Monitor back entrance


    27. Mrs Lemony's husband, Harry, has had a bad accident recently: He got his left leg badly injured by a press in the factory where he works as a factory-hand


    28. Doctors say the leg needs to be cut off because it has started to rot


    29. He is either pulling my leg or a penniless Albanian; he is certainly not a literature master, I thought but suppressed that suspicion at once


    30. ‘Please may I come and join the party at The Laurels on Christmas Day? I was going up to the parents but Dad’s been called off to Dubai or somewhere so I’ll be sitting all alone in my little house with my turkey leg and a sprout on a plate … Gran and Gramps said you were having a party and I should ask if I could come … I’ll be a good boy and help with the washing up

    31. The terror caused by the scraping of the chair leg evaporated under the glow of this voice


    32. She sat with her back against the tree, revealing a shapely if thin alabaster leg, and pulled him towards her


    33. "I could move only one arm, Corguf had both arms and a leg and had sewed up his other leg


    34. Suddenly Elden felt a sharp pain in his leg and fell to the ground


    35. His left leg complained with every step but he just laughed and told it not to be an arse


    36. For the Maasai of Kenya humanity was fashioned by the creator from a single tree or leg which split into three pieces


    37. moon, stepped on a deadly snake which struck her leg


    38. They bite the leg so that you cannot flee


    39. It had a nostril ahead of each leg, far enough apart that a human didn't cover them, with a flap around each that looked like a short horse's ear


    40. For clothing she had on a harness, leg socks and sandals

    41. At a convenient docking point, we are decanted with our ggs for the final leg of our trip


    42. Each leg seemed to be a curved stick, he could see no joints in them


    43. He barely got his torso on the bank, and barely got his right leg up before something grabbed the other


    44. Alan kicked mightily and got his left leg close enough for Desa to begin sawing at the tentacle


    45. She missed because a foot wide section of the bank slumped down and Alan's other leg went in


    46. She meowed loudly, patted Sally’s leg and ran up the mountain


    47. Oreo ran to her and rubbed against her leg and then sat quietly


    48. Any exercise which tones and stretches the leg muscles and the sciatic nerve will bring relief from aching legs and so do not omit from your daily practice schedule the exercises described in the following chapter on lumbago and sciatica


    49. Also do not omit the simple, leg stretching exercise described in chapter two


    50. then slowly lower your leg as you exhale














































    1. cross legged in the back of the Metro


    2. As a physical specimen, he was entirely the opposite of the poor wretch sitting cross legged in the back of the Metro


    3. At peace for the first time in days, she sat watching the land slowly passing by; ducks dabbled in and out of the reed beds bordering the river and here and there she spotted the long legged herons, poised like statues peering at the water intently as though hypnotising their prey


    4. A thonga is a lower, wider, eight legged version of what Alan always pictured a 'cow' would be like


    5. from house to curtain wall, with my four legged helpers


    6. Rayne stood her ground and slowly lowered to a crossed legged position


    7. We stand and watch transfixed as the long legged bird dips its beak into the water


    8. When she awoke, he’d gentle laid her on a pile of fresh mowed hay, and had his jacket wrapped about her chest and arms, he sat crossed legged right next to her, with his head hung low in his hands


    9. Hogan strode out towards the back of the monastery walls and Conradie puffed along next to him, his fat wobbling and rolling as he struggled to keep up with the tall, long legged marine


    10. legged girl to replace Hesper

    11. Five year old Veronica sat cross legged on the sunny tiles arranging her doll’s horsehair tresses with a pretty little comb made out of ivory


    12. I told them as I got level someone called him down into the dugout and he left the precious book outside so I swiped it and legged it back here


    13. As he sat cross legged, he asked, “So what is an assassin like yourself


    14. For just these few moments, I was in pure country bliss — the smell of the spring lilies sweeping through the air, the sun dancing through the early leaves and flowers of the blooming trees, the sounds of the morning robins looking for those worms, the excitement of our four legged fur-babies as I snuck them extra dog treats while Grandpa had his back turned (I was their favorite) — this was true joy for any young child born to be wild


    15. At intervals, a loud cry would announce the discovery of some fresh animal, chiefly of the wild pig species; but, as a rule, after an exciting chase, the four legged brutes had the best of it, and got clear into the forest


    16. These would be things like having the slave responsible for the cooking and cleaning, or having the slave be required to care for the Master’s four legged pets


    17. By now I was so drunk that I was staggering around the kitchen, clutching a half-burnt, one legged chicken, making clucking noises between fits of the giggles


    18. The girl sat crossed legged in the middle of the big double bed, watching him make the coffee with a slight smile on her lips


    19. He sat very still, crossed legged, waiting, his eyes growing tired as he stared into the night


    20. “Of course I won’t laugh at you Piers,” Lyra said, getting off the box and sitting crossed legged on the mattress in front of him

    21. “Yes master,” I said absently and sat cross legged on the ground


    22. away, an equally passive six legged Drog had witnessed his own


    23. The policeman hadn’t noticed the two suspects had legged it; his vision was blocked by the stupid, impatient kid in the Saxo behind


    24. She put the tray on the bed, then hitching up the fringe of a scarlet embroidered nightdress that only just covered her hips, climbed on to the bed and sat cross legged with the tray between her knees


    25. Bomil was a very short elf, barely a hundred and twenty centimeters tall, blond, blue eyed, a bit bow legged, and with ears and a nose that were decidedly too large for the rest of his head


    26. Bomil was a very short elf, barely four feet tall, blond, blue eyed, a bit bow legged, and with ears and a nose that were decidedly too large for the rest of his head


    27. legged animal as it thrashed through the undergrowth, running


    28. “Are there any riding on the four legged creatures that serve the humans?”


    29. crossed legged next to it


    30. On this night I wanted the bounty more than my four legged friends

    31. legged with my back to him


    32. Helmut sat cross legged on the sand; Brunhilde perched on a rock above – a Lorelei, beautiful face framed by long blonde tresses


    33. Jezzabell sat cross legged on the floor, her cut wing slowly slithered in and out of her back


    34. He must have legged it past those three casualties while I was shooting at a creaking floorboard


    35. They sat cross legged on cushions on the floor, facing each other across the low table


    36. There was a metal legged desk against one wall


    37. Three legged, I lunged for the aisle and was headed for freedom


    38. A shriveled brown mummy, cross- legged, arms folded on the withered breast upon which the shrunken head was sunk, sat in the little cavern


    39. Henry Hodge sat cross legged in his living room with his two children


    40. crossed legged on the floor next to the girl and that’s when I saw

    41. Suddenly he was 15 years old and sitting cross legged on the sun frizzled turf in back of the splintered bleachers with 12 Indian boys listening to the coach deliver a pep talk worthy of Vince Lombardi


    42. It’s addressed to the person who found the three legged chocolate lab


    43. “If it wasn’t for that three legged dog, you’d all be dead


    44. He unwrapped it and hung it on the front of the pedestal that the three legged replica of Limpy stood


    45. "The rat was a two legged one


    46. The young lovers sat next to each other, cross legged before the fire of their eternal burning love


    47. “Gufders are four legged predators with green skin and yellow stripes


    48. Jamie looked up to see a long legged, blond, with big blue eyes saunter in the door and stop directly in front of Lily


    49. Lezura leaned in close to Joey, patted Redbolt on his snout, and said, “A racusha is an armor-plated, four legged predator somewhere between a mammal and a reptile, known as a therapsid


    50. Some long legged insects there scurried down further from the searing brightness













































    1. The bombers then retreated through our covering fire and legging it back to our lines following the snatch party as the whole front seemed to come to life


    2. Claire looked at Monica's black Cosabella legging covered legs with wide eyes


    3. The door! It is open? Ha! They are out, tumultuously, off for a minute's race, all bravely legging it, Burke's of Denzille and Holles their ulterior goal


    4. • If this is a complex spread, how will it be executed? Is it worth executing at the individual component level? Will you be legging into the spread? Will it be sent as a complex order?


    5. Legging into or out of the spread is acceptable and often a good way to put on the iron condor spread trade


    6. “Legging in” is a trading strategy that involves placing one part of the spread trade before the other once the underlying security has made an obvious move in one direction or another


    7. In its more complex form—leg into the straddle, leg out of the straddle—returns can run to +50 percent or more in five to eight trading days (legging in and legging out will be defined later)


    8. Legging in is the preferred mode of entry, since it has the potential of maximizing our gains


    9. In both cases, however, we will be legging out of the trade


    10. These may be bought at separate times, which is what we mean by legging into and legging out of the trade

    11. Here are the rules for legging into the trade:


    12. Legging into the straddle position is a strategy aimed at maximizing the potential return of one side of the trade prior to the big move


    13. The bearded axe-head hit the horseman’s thigh instead, sheering through mail legging, linen trousers, and flesh to jar against bone


    14. A more aggressive approach to spreading options is what is known as legging in


    15. The latter is known as legging in and is considered a more aggressive approach


    1. Who on earth enjoyed that? Her legs shaking from the unexpected stress, she made her way to her dressing room at the far end of the opulent suite


    2. “I bet they’d love to have a big piece of sausage between their legs


    3. He tried to move but his legs wouldn’t listen


    4. Elevating the legs at the end of a long day helps to prevent problems with the blood vessels in the legs, as does wearing support stockings


    5. Walking requires the integrated use of our arms, legs and torso


    6. The loss of balance that leads to serious, injury-producing falls can be traced to age-related changes in the brain, diminishing vision, inner ear problems, weakening of the legs and trunk and/or the declining reliability of sensory mechanisms that let the brain know where the limbs are in space


    7. Another child, maybe five years old in red coveralls, ran up to his mother’s legs


    8. His parents sent him to summer camp last month and he had bug bites all over his arms and legs


    9. They have longer legs than him but they're lazy


    10. They say it is a beast with forty legs and a thousand teeth

    11. Peppy sat down on his rear, though it seemed to Violet like a war horse rearing his legs in the air


    12. He currently had one guard clamped to his back, and two more trying to hold his legs to the ground


    13. He said he didn't mind if the beasts he herded had twice too many legs and one and a half times too many eyes


    14. They did kick up billows of dust from the powdery soil but rode high above it on their great long legs


    15. One second it was thundering along chasing the sunset in the deepening darkness, the next it was accelerating at thirty-six feet per second per second from under her, its legs spread in all directions and at angles that looked pretty painful


    16. The old man had a rabbit as a butler, except the rabbit stood on two legs, twitching his whiskers in his little butler outfit


    17. As soon as Barney sees me, he bounds forward and throws his arms round my legs, nearly tripping me up


    18. Standing poses have a different effect on the legs unlike conventional endurance or aerobic exercise


    19. The old man uncrossed his legs and leaned forward across the coffee table


    20. legs as he had done so nonchalantly at the taverna, lit one of his cigars and smiled at

    21. He returned to me with both of his legs and his


    22. " Even a couple of the kedas had been short tempered and BobbingTwo put four legs up at another


    23. He kept smiling, and assumed the relaxed, legs crossed,


    24. Johnny swapped his legs over, feeling the first glimmer of pins and needles


    25. Parking the car tidily beside Stephen’s rather more upmarket vehicle, and carefully leaving plenty of space for him to get into his driver’s door if he wants to, I haul my aching legs out of the car and start to walk across to the front door


    26. "That's all made of metal isn't it?" Estwig gasped as the landing legs extended


    27. doostEr could see only an attractive pair of legs on the ramp


    28. uncertainly on their hind legs towards their instruments


    29. John rhythmically pounds Teekra, who has her legs wrapped around him


    30. There would be a little moment of thrill when she stretched her legs out on the

    31. She had an elegant shape, long legs and pert breasts, high arched eyebrows and a long neck


    32. was able to clamber onto the space made by the flattened seats, cross his legs, and


    33. legs and speed back towards the light of town, the wolf slid the hood from his head


    34. They were red but there was a dark bloody spot in the crotch, right between the legs and running down an inch or so on her left thigh


    35. legs ached from the walking, and his back was stiff


    36. Explaining it all to Marianne, how I had screwed things up, made the wrong decisions and left our little boy with broken legs


    37. received the use of his legs in the Book of Acts 14:8-10


    38. At least I'd saved him his legs though


    39. bare legs was a breath of civilisation, a small memento of his humanity


    40. protruding bones in his legs

    41. I’ll stab his fucking balls off with a steak knife the next time he falls asleep with his fat legs open


    42. Okay, so during that time I also had to deal with getting out of bed (when did my legs turn to cotton wool?) and being taken along to the toilet (amazing how quickly one can get out of the habit of the most commonplace activities)


    43. He is lying next to me in bed now, he is restless, he shouts, he puts his legs on my chest, he molests me


    44. After that travesty of a lesson in Janus last night, I realized all these years Alexander has been doing nothing but pulling our legs in there


    45. I recoiled as images of a burning cigarette end being stubbed out on my bare legs played out in my head


    46. Betty’s memories are of her older sister getting dressed up to go out with some of the Poles who were stationed in Bristol and how Betty had to draw dark lines up the back of her sister’s legs as they didn’t have any stockings


    47. Same with the ones for the legs


    48. I lean against him comfortably, and he stretches his legs out parallel with the sofa


    49. We approached junctions, the heavy braking making me slide feet first towards the front of the truck and sending needles of dull pain up my legs


    50. My spectral friend unfolded his legs and also rose up from the floor














































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    Synonyms for "leg"

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    "leg" definitions

    a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle


    a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion


    one of the supports for a piece of furniture


    a part of a forked or branching shape


    the limb of an animal used for food


    a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg


    a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg


    (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack


    a section or portion of a journey or course