bandy-legged

• “Short, bandy-legged and remarkably intense, Daniel plays Hatuey, the leader of the resistance against Columbus and the first Indian to be burned on a cross, as well as the firebrand leader of the Bolivian resistance against the water privateers.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Unknown': Unmoored, Overcooked

• “This bandy-legged, sawed-off little rat racer is awfully interesting in its own right.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing

• “It ' s not a good sign, or portent, or whatever, that the only affecting character in " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 " proves to be the emancipated elf Dobby, a bandy-legged, floppy-eared, scrawny-necked and mostly digital creature — based on Toby Jones ' s performance — who yanks really hard at your heartstrings in his hour of distress.”

  The Wall Street Journal: '

• “A bandy-legged, bull-chested man with gray eyes and black hair that hung loose to his shoulders, draped in a heavy bear-pelt cloak and wearing a golden torque as thick as her wrist around his heavily muscled neck.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Moon of Avalon

• “The beating happened in the summer of 1933, a year after Fisher, as Dahl records in his own letters home, had left Repton to become Bishop of Chester.96 More than fifty years later, however, Dahl blamed the “shoddy bandy-legged” Fisher for the caning, and painted him as a sanctimonious hypocrite.”

  Simon & Schuster: Storyteller

• “The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Best American Poetry 2010

• “The better class of surfer, one of Trey's buddies, out for a week of catching waves, yes, but never a local full-season hard-core dude like this one -- barefoot, broad-shouldered, bandy-legged, tattoos on the small of his back and another between his shoulder blades, with the name CODY, all the tattoos visible through his torn shirt.”

  Fictionaut: Beard

• “Though low and bandy-legged like all his kind, the otter made up for his slight stride with inexhaustible energy.”

  Fictionaut: A Corridor in the Asylum

• “Staggering bandy-legged down the boulevard he noticed a beautiful courtesan smoking on the balcony of a sumptuous pleasure house.”

  Fictionaut: THE PREVIOUS ADVENTURES OF POPEYE THE SAILOR

• “He reminded me of a bandy-legged cock, vain enough to think he could chase a fox.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildfire

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