Now, if you will oil the joints of my legs, I shall be all right once more."
So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.
He had but one
leg, set just below the middle of his round, fat body; but it was a stout
leg and had a broad, flat foot at the bottom of it, on which the man seemed to stand very well.
One evening, as he rose from table, his
legs failed him."
It was really comical to see the creature walk; for it moved the
legs on its right side together, and those on its left side together, as a pacing horse does; and that made its body rock sidewise, like a cradle.
And Three-
Legs and all owners of things paid Dog-Tooth and Sea-Lion and Big- Fat their share in money.
broke the martingale and enabled him to gain a perpendicular position on his hind
legs. At this juncture a rotten stirrup leather parted, and Daylight was all but unhorsed.
But remembering the muzzle, she shook it and again began restlessly stamping one after the other her shapely
legs.
The deck-full of blacks shrieked their merriment, and Jerry, his rage undiminished, his immediate antagonist out of the battle, mistaking himself as the object of the laughter of the blacks, turned upon them, charging and slashing the many
legs that fled before him.
Sometimes he brought his grandfather, who always looked closely at my
legs.
What place stop 'm that fella
leg?" quoth Daughtry, pointing to the space which the member would have occupied had it not been absent.
He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory
leg had received a half-splintering shock.
I HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the wooden
leg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr.
Each soldier was exactly like the other in shape, except just one, who had been made last when the tin had run short; but there he stood as firmly on his one
leg as the others did on two, and he is the one that became famous.
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.