Egyptian cat, but a carniverous, long-bodied animal, after the shape of. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference
It was all of a chestnut-red colour, long-bodied, in size like a big pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
In long-bodied dogs like Hermann they sometimes protrude into the spinal canal. From Wordnik.com. [Favourite Dog Stories]
He was perched on the window-sill, long-bodied, pale-skinned and incredibly sane. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
On the other hand, there was the long-bodied and lanky Josh Purdue who was a splendid hand at getting up. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
The long-bodied bumbler seemed to descend each step in two stages, like a double trailer taking speed-bumps. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish. From Wordnik.com. [Paris Japonica: Researchers Claim Simple White Flower Has World's Longest Genome] Reference
If you never have enough length of tie to do this, you are probably of the long-bodied sort, and you need extra-long ties. From Wordnik.com. [Tie One On!] Reference
Their baggage was borne by a long train of their two-humped camels, long-bodied and thick-legged, shaggy, built for endurance. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
He was long-bodied and very long-limbed, and having been brought up in camp, his motion had all the stiffness of the marching step. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
The large, short-bodied and long-legged sheep found in the interior of western and northern Africa are a complete contrast to the short-legged, long-bodied little Cameroons sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
Wildcats' typically dominant long-bodied post players. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
He was a short-legged, long-bodied, corpulent little man. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
The cowpuncher was a long-bodied man, smooth-muscled and lithe. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Four-Square] Reference
P. Blinders, a long-bodied, short-legged young Dutch apothecary of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
In a little dip, almost a pit, a long-legged, long-bodied man sat before. From Wordnik.com. [The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"] Reference
The Australian opossum is a long-bodied short-legged little animal, with. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Australia] Reference
Campbell was a long-bodied, but short and bandy-legged little man, always clad in the. From Wordnik.com. [Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey] Reference
The cream-nose, I noticed, was a bony, long-bodied brute, with sleepy eyes and a ewe neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Land] Reference
Far down the winding road she saw at last a man on a motor bicycle -- bare-headed, and long-bodied. From Wordnik.com. [Helena] Reference
TURNSPIT DOGGIE, a kind of dog, long-bodied and short-legged, formerly used in turning a treadmill. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
To be sure, there was Peter Mink, who was long-bodied and short-tempered, as the stranger appeared to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grumpy Weasel Sleepy-Time Tales] Reference
There was only one man left; a short-legged, long-bodied, plethoric fellow, with a very large, sandy head. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
Page 412 as you -- you long-bodied snipe -- you snake without a head -- you leetle eend of a sarcumstance!. From Wordnik.com. [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference
There was only one man left: a short-legged, long-bodied, plethoric fellow, with a very large, sandy head. From Wordnik.com. [Drawing-Room Tales. The Stout Gentleman; The Deserter; and The Broken Heart] Reference
Beorn clapped his hands, and in trotted four beautiful white ponies and several large long-bodied grey dogs. From Wordnik.com. [The Hobbit]
Beside the driver on the box sat a long-bodied man in buckskin with a clean brown jaw and an alert, sardonic eye. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, You Tex!] Reference
No, George, it's kind of you to encourage me, but the Maylands have ever been a short-legged and long-bodied race. From Wordnik.com. [Post Haste] Reference
The creature before him, though scarce distinguishable from the surrounding gloom, was not long-bodied like an ox. From Wordnik.com. [The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar] Reference
They were long-bodied, hungry-looking animals; and the grooms reported them ravenous and insatiable in their feeding. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume II.] Reference
It is the largest of the wild pigs, long-bodied and flat-sided, in colour much the hue of the mud in which it wallows. From Wordnik.com. [After London Or, Wild England] Reference
Then it grew silent as, with the last of the dangerous curves behind it, the long-bodied roadster swung into the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Man to Man] Reference
He noticed a long-bodied colt, incredibly dainty of foot, wandering nervously near him with pricking ears and sniffing nose. From Wordnik.com. [Alcatraz] Reference
They are a round, rather long-bodied, little animal, of a whitish color, with nose like a pig, and caudal extremity like a rat. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853--,] Reference
In person he was a long-legged, long-bodied, long-faced man, with rough whiskers and a rough beard on his upper lip but with a shorn chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
In person he was a long-legged, long-bodied, long-faced man, with rough whiskers and a rough beard on his upper lip, but with a shorn chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
A man so freakishly long-bodied he would be suited to answering the door for The Addams. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Mail news round-up] Reference
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