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• Algeria is now a French colony, is well ordered and quite safe for the visitor This people is made up of many breeds: we saw thin, bandy-legged Arabs, fat, burly Turks, ramrod-like Bedouins; Kalougis, with a complexion suggesting old sole leather; Greeks, with frilled petticoats; Romans, of course with the toga; Kabeles, with black hair and wearing a robe like a big gas-bag; Moors, with the Duke's nose and spindle shanks; Mohammedans, carrying bannocks with holes in them; and dragomans, with "_bakshish_" stamped on every department of their anatomy. —  A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
• They're going to open up a sporty restaurant The man was a small bandy-legged creature, with eyes that squinted, a complexion like ham fat and waxed moustaches. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
• His needles and pins are stuck into the folds of his turban, and Eha says that he is bandy-legged because of the position in which he squats on his feet while sewing. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
• I pitch'd so quick That thou dost know thou hadst a hardish job To teäke in all the pitches off my pick An' dissčn zee me groun' en, nother, Bob An' thou bist stronger, thou dost think, than I Girt bandy-lags! —  Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
• Everything was full of expression for Mark Ambient's visitor,--from the big, bandy-legged geese, whose whiteness was a "note," amid all the tones of green, as they wandered beside a neat little oval pool, the foreground of a thatched and whitewashed inn, with a grassy approach and a pictorial sign,--from these humble wayside animals to the crests of high woods which let a gable or a pinnacle peep here and there, and looked, even at a distance, like trees of good company, conscious of an individual profile. —  The Author Of Beltraffio

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