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  • There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.

    Archive 2005-07-03 Michael Evans 2005

  • There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Michael Evans 2005

  • There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.

    06/26/2005 - 07/03/2005 Michael Evans 2005

  • I can break it, I can turn black-leg and go to work for the Chinese.

    Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

  • If they are kept regularly growing on, black-leg will be prevented.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • After the first winter, black-leg is little to be feared.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • Prevention is the only safeguard, for I have never seen black-leg cured.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • "Were it not for the fact that your name has been publicly associated with hers, I would prosecute you for the scoundrel and black-leg that you are."

    At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand

  • The blade of Vernon was arrested in its deadly descent, and a single blow from the fist of the new-comer laid the black-leg prostrate by the side of the woodman.

    Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

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