Usage examples (4)

• 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...
• Eleven years of age, she had at last begun to grow in earnest: her legs were as of old mere spindleshanks, but nearly twice as long; and her fat little body, perched...
• 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...
• To think I feared you once, old spindleshanks!