The long-legged girl stood on tiptoe to reach him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Droozle] Reference

Six long-legged cranes, five pouting pigeons, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

'Vermin in account with the divine and long-legged Pelides.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Bending down, the long-legged scout began to scan the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference

Phyllis asked, wading a little closer to the long-legged bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

"Tell thy long-legged swashbuckler of our meeting," he sneered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

This was a cousin of tall, long-legged Colon, and whose name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference

The long-legged spider, or, as it is generally called in Wales, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

"You'll take second mate's berth, son," said the long-legged Yankee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Wagner's long-legged white was the most wonderful pacer he ever saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

  No long-legged, bouncing sister, running into the kitchen for a Gatorade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adults at Home] Reference

The long-legged boy came hurrying up, holding the burning stick in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference

Short, dumpy people can never hope to compete with slim, long-legged greyhounds like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

Unluckily, I was obliged to employ as my agent a long-legged sea-captain from Maine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

He is a small, long-legged animal, who can leap long distances and run like the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

They were at the age "between hay and grass," narrow-chested, and long-legged like colts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

He was a sinewy, long-legged ruffian, well over six feet, and holding himself creditably.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference

Tegenaria, a large black spider, long-legged and very swift, a well-known kind of house-spider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference

He stood with his arms folded, a tall red-headed figure, long-legged, a little on the thin side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

Meantime his long-legged, towheaded son had come from within and stood gaping behind his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference

Mark and the long-legged scout clapped their sticks to their right shoulders as though parading arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

Ten miles is nothing for those long-legged ectomorphs who routinely cover that distance on their lunch breaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Fat Runner] Reference

She made me think of a long-legged very thin hen scratching for dear life to feed her never-to-be-satisfied brood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

The masts were guard towers and swayed to and fro together like long-legged birds padding through a blue tide pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spear Master] Reference

Indeed, the long-legged scout seemed to perform a complete revolution in the air, landing on his knees among the bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

 He'd close this case and tonight he'd celebrate with another agent - a luscious, long-legged agent with blanched almond eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Bout Apples] Reference

Finally a long-legged boy twisted himself around one of the poles and with funny, quick motions worked his way up near the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day at the County Fair] Reference

Even the long-legged Lil Artha must see now that the distance separating the pursuers from the fugitive had been greatly shortened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

"Bonnily, Belle, bonnily I mind ye -- a long-legged, black-maned filly ye were, and the big eyes o 'ye, I began to love ye then ....".    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

We thought we could have made a good pick or two amongst the horses, but we didn't care for long-legged ugly big-horned cattle brutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference

So Mark and his long-legged comrade were left to guard the prison of the old Italian woman, while the other two scouts climbed the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

In a few days after they are laid they hatch and out of each crawls a small, long-legged blackish or greenish young bug called the nymph.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference

However, he had not much time for wondering, or indeed for anything except the task of keeping pace with his nimble, long-legged comrade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

He knew that this peculiar disappearance of Colon could not be an accident; nor had the long-legged sprinter gone away of his own accord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference