long-legged

• “A husband left for a long-legged creature on the brink of first bloom.”

  Fictionaut: A Scattering of Rivals

• “Ms. Lan came to live in Buenos Aires a couple of years ago, and does acrylic paintings of long-legged dancers, practices singing melancholy lyrics and has published a book of verse on tango.”

  The Wall Street Journal: It Takes Two to Tango, So Long as They're Both Argentines

• “The Composite order is the most sophisticated, a combination of Ionic grace and Corinthian ornamentation – a long-legged hermaphrodite.”

  The Guardian: Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders

• “The invasion of the long-legged critters doesn't come as a surprise to scientists, given three years ago they predicted the King Crabs would invade within 100 years.”

  The Huffington Post: Giant Red Crabs Take Over 'Antarctic Abyss,' Climate Change Blamed (VIDEO)

• “Stretch, a long-legged radio DJ, is forced to listen in terror as her two callers are sliced up by Leatherface as the song No One Lives Forever plays in the background.”

  The Huffington Post: Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise

• “They all seem too beautiful, long-legged and are wearing nice shoes.”

  The Guardian: Shirley Williams: chair of the judges

• “The moon over Miami was crescent, a warm breeze ruffled multi-lighted coconut palm fronds, dogs with hats yapped under the tables and around splashing fountains, long-legged Latinas and buff fellas, tourists and druggies and varied genders preened in an endless paseo.”

  The Huffington Post: Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now

• “It was lovely having two brothers, though it was only in later years that I realised how amazing it would have been to have had a sister – not just a civilising influence, but all her long-legged girlfriends would have passed through the house.”

  The Guardian: John Suchet: My family values

• “The group had been added to by curious passers-by -- husky miners, mountaineers, and frontiersmen, sons of the long-legged and broad-shouldered generations.”

  THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN

• “He recreated the primitive pantheon; reared an altar to the sun and burned candle fat and bacon grease thereon; and in the unfenced yard, by the long-legged cache, made a frost devil, which he was wont to make faces at and mock when the mercury oozed down into the bulb.”

  THE STORY OF JEES UCK

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