This walking on stilts is very general in the deep sands of this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
Skating on stilts is evidently hard for some — but not so hard for others. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » I can’t resist …] Reference
Sponsors were giving away hand warmers, foam hockey sticks and three men stood in stilts with hockey sticks to match. From Wordnik.com. [Frozen Confines game features atmosphere of a rock concert] Reference
Less touristy was a Lao village, houses on stilts, which is where Ai's grandfather came from. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
The stilts were the height of my knee, carved of wood like pattens, and painted with red and white stripes. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
If you can see, the rush of the flood waters have -- this house actually sits on stilts, which is rather common for this part of area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2002] Reference
He said the man is on stilts, meaning he's elevated himself beyond his real range. From Wordnik.com. [Dear John, Dear Abigail: A Love Story Through Letters] Reference
Somehow the idea of "stilts" just doesn't seems to get it. From Wordnik.com. [CommonDreams.org Headlines] Reference
He was taking his first brave steps on "stilts" while he waits for his full-size prosthetic legs. From Wordnik.com. [HomePage - The Sun] Reference
He now walks on metal 'stilts', but yesterday said: 'I've got my prosthetic legs coming in the next couple of weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
In Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, the 4th temple fair has a mix of traditional Chinese folk art performances such as stilts and lion dance. From Wordnik.com. [My Sinchew -] Reference
Don't put me on stilts, for I could never walk in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
So she may as well get off her stilts and darn her stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
"So do I," said Ideala; "I find much that raises me on stilts.". From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Demonic predators on stilts ambushed her during “Disturbia.”. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Rihanna at Jiffy Lube Live] Reference
The camp, high on stilts, soon disappears behind a stand of cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Ground] Reference
A house was built, none came to see the swaying stilts none can recall. From Wordnik.com. [Foundation] Reference
I walked on stilts to the car and realized I had been right to worry. From Wordnik.com. [Car Talk] Reference
The power was still off, the dry-dock a gloomy graveyard of boats on stilts. From Wordnik.com. [Grown Man Cries] Reference
Hoops, wheels and buzzers; stilts, different kinds; how used and how procured. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
YDSTIE: There are just a few weatherworn houses on stilts on one side of Grand Terre. From Wordnik.com. [Environmentalist: Fate Of Coast Rests With Weather] Reference
BURNETT: Rosina Phillipe moved into her newly constructed house on stilts last August. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Imperils Native American Town, And Way Of Life] Reference
The house is on stilts for the waves, and rats eat tea biscuits and leave on suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [THE PERFECT KIND OF HAPPY] Reference
It is actually in the river, Darrell and Joey built it on stilts right there in the water. From Wordnik.com. [Cheat Sheets] Reference
It was built up on stilts, and was a place of worship built for the slaves by their owners. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
In his act, he wears stilts and on them he feels like the man he was always meant to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference
Expectation, says the writer of the Stuyvesant manuscript -- expectation now stood on stilts. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The first stilts I ever used -- I was brought up on a farm -- I cut "with my little hatchet.". From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
Doctor Jim's windmill was keeping the big cistern on stilts filled from his deep artesian well. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The bright spot blooms behind the silhouette of the woman, on stilts now, lurching above the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse] Reference
For those men who stand on dignity are top-heavy things, pigmies upon stilts, triangles upside down. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The French avant-garde prizes color, stilts and frenzy over any semblance of coherent entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Have Been Worse] Reference
He is a man absolutely free from eccentricities and affectations; he neither walks nor talks on stilts. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
Each from his own little pedestal -- it may be the shuffling stilts of three feet high, or it may be the lofty security of the. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
It occurs to us that nothing could please a parrot more, if it could be, than a pair of stilts on which it could hop comfortably. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Devonshire, at the stilts of a plough so cumbrous and ineffective that a thrifty New-England farmer would have discarded it at sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The Gehry model is fantastic: it's built high on stilts on the East River edge, with a tower surrounded by swirls of shimmering "ribbons.". From Wordnik.com. [Mega Museum, Riv. Vu] Reference
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