spindle-legs

"None of those spindle-legs yonder," was Peggy's amused answer.

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

"Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it."

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

Bredoux was a queer sort of misshapen creature, who balanced on a pair of very long spindle-legs a huge trunk, as round as the body of

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

Only, there hung from the ceiling the ropes which had once supported a chandelier; and in a corner, among stacks of wood and heaps of Indian-corn, whence spread a sickly smell of damp and mildew, there stood a long, thin harpsichord, with spindle-legs, and its cover cracked from end to end.

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

The young women of these hamlets had each a long braid of yellow hair down her back, blue eyes, and a white bodice with a cat's-cradle lacing behind; the men had bell-crowned hats and spindle-legs: they buttoned the breath out of their bodies with round pewter buttons on tight, short crimson waistcoats.

A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories William Dean Howells 1878

There were so many tables, little and larger, with claw-feet or spindle-legs, that one had to be careful not to overturn their loads of

Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

Below these was a card-table of marquetry with spindle-legs, and on it a work-box of ivory, inlaid with silver and ebony.

What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

Below these was a card-table of marquetry with spindle-legs, and on it a work-box of ivory, inlaid with silver and ebony.

What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

Heavy, broad-backed, old-fashioned, mahogany - and-horsehair chairs, not easily lifted; obsolete tables with spindle-legs and dusty baize covers; presentation prints of the holders of great titles in the last generation or the last but one, environ him.

Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

Heavy, broad-backed, old-fashioned, mahogany - and-horsehair chairs, not easily lifted; obsolete tables with spindle-legs and dusty baize covers; presentation prints of the holders of great titles in the last generation or the last but one, environ him.

Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841