spindle-shanked

• “Michael himself might be afraid of forgetting his lines, but when he bestrode the stage as grinning, spindle-shanked Death, the Grim Reaper, the audience was always afraid of Michael.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wicked Will

• “Old spindle-shanked Edgar sits next to her and feels the aura of the streets and thinks herself back into another century.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “Just in front of a brick building called the Town House, which sits in the very middle of King Street, I found a spindle-shanked boy, no more than ten, peddling salted cod wrapped in old newspaper.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Blindspot'

• “Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders — of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous.”

  Vanity Fair

• “Heard you got tossed out of camp again, Hamlin," Roscoe Knapp said to a tall, pale-faced, spindle-shanked fellow.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “Now Wyrzbowski could see the muckamuck, resplendent in the egg-sack slime of its body suit, wielding its red fearmonger while flunkies covered its spindle-shanked ass.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “It was a fair lesson of humility for a man to find himself ranked beneath this high-shouldered, spindle-shanked, beardless bit of neutrality; and as such I took it duly to heart.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “The bridegroom sat beside her — rather a withered spindle-shanked little man, but this only proved him to be of the true-blue blood, a legitimate”

  The Alhambra

• “Thanks, ye spindle-shanked maniac," answered Arcie with a cheerful grin.”

  Villains by Necessity

• “He was lanky and spindle-shanked, with a straggling yellow beard; once I caught him staring at me, and it stirred some memory I could not place; but it was clear he would stare at anything rather than work, and I thought no more of it.”

  The Mask of Apollo

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