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"Odds fudge -- you have spindleshanks!" cried Madcap Moll irrelevantly.— Terribly Intimate Portraits
To think I feared you once, old spindleshanks!— Krindlesyke
I sallied forth to see the cause of the uproar, and found our host engaged in single combat with a drawn sword -- stick that sparkled blue and bright in the moonbeam, his antagonist being a strong porker that he had taken for a town guard, and had hemmed into a corner formed by the stair and the garden wall, which, on being pressed, made a dash between his spindleshanks, and fairly capsized him into my arms.— Tom Cringle's Log
The oarsman will become "stale" unless the method of exercise is varied; the gymnast will develop the upper part of his body, while his lower extremities will remain spindleshanks.— Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house.— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
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