Trouble is, most people use regular, long-shanked worm hooks, which are too big and aren't weedless.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 Fishing Gear Buyer's Guide: Lures and Baits] Reference

Quickly, with a lilt in her movement, she fetched her work-basket, and together they examined the long-shanked old scissors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference

'On Persephone,' informed Harrison, 'a long-shanked Milik offered me a twenty-carat, blue-tinted, first-water diamond for my bike. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

Uladeslaus Cubitalis that pigmy king of Poland reigned and fought more victorious battles than any of his long-shanked predecessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

He laid great stress and emphasis on having 'his short pipe' with him, probably reserving a regular long-shanked 'churchwarden' for home use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

In the bottom left drawer she found a wooden cigar box containing a rich cache of keys; unfortunately, most of them were of the long-shanked skeleton type gone black with age, obviously original to the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darker Place]

She was callow and moulting, flat-footed and long-shanked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

'Out of the way with these long-shanked flamingoes!' he cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norse Tales and Sketches] Reference

Before they came up to Beauchamp, the long-shanked man had stalked away townward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

There were long-shanked chisels and rounded scrapers, with which he really wailed away on the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

'A long-shanked trooper, bearing the name of John Thomas Drew, was crawling along under fire of the batteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

He shot the five shots without appreciable sighting before each, as fast as his thumb could pull back the long-shanked hammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rules of the Game] Reference

Or are Milford natives so long-shanked that shorts that would on a normal person reach to below the knee only make it to mid-thigh with them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogtimore, Hon] Reference

Another long-shanked ugly rogue, mounted on a pair of high-heeled wooden slippers, meeting a strapping, fusty, squabbed dowdy, says he to her, How is't my top?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

I would myself dub thee knight; and I doubt not that the occasion will yet come when thou wilt do as good deeds upon the bodies of the Saracens as thou hast upon that long-shanked opponent of thine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Knight] Reference

Birds were more abundant: long-shanked water-fowl with hazel eyes; red-legged rail; the brown swallow of Egypt; green-blue fly-catchers; and a black muscivor, with a snowy-white rump, of which I failed to secure a specimen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference

Removal of the hair-pin was effected by first inserting within the meatus a Gruber speculum, encircling the unbroken projecting prong, and then raising the end of the broken one with a long-shanked aural hook, when the hair-pin was readily withdrawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Four days after another young, long-shanked, raw-boned catchpole coming to serve Basche with a writ at the fat prior's request, was no sooner at the gate but the porter smelt him out and rung the bell; at whose second pull all the family understood the mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

You forget nobody, and surely you must remember one Peter Schlemihl, whom you now and then met at my house in former days; a long-shanked fellow, who had the credit of awkwardness because he was unpolished, and whose negligence gave him an air of habitual laziness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Schlemihl] Reference

At twenty-two, Bibbs was physically no more than the outer scaffolding of a man, waiting for the building to begin inside -- a long-shanked, long-faced, rickety youth, sallow and hollow and haggard, dark-haired and dark-eyed, with a peculiar expression of countenance; indeed, at first sight of Bibbs Sheridan a stranger might well be solicitous, for he seemed upon the point of tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turmoil] Reference

Another long-shanked ugly rogue, mounted on a pair of high-heeled wooden slippers, meeting a strapping, fusty, squabbed dowdy, says he to her, How is’t my top?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

"Slowly down and across the white, faintly ruled paper wrapped about the revolving drum, I watched the long-shanked, awkward pen of the barograph in our Weather Bureau station at Galveston.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men] Reference

Four days after another young, long-shanked, raw-boned catchpole coming to serve Basche with a writ at the fat prior’s request, was no sooner at the gate but the porter smelt him out and rung the bell; at whose second pull all the family understood the mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

"A long-shanked trooper bearing the name of John Thomas Drew was crawling along under fire of the batteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

Professor, long-shanked, and about Number 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sagebrusher A Story of the West] Reference

That long-shanked dapper Cupid with frisked curls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

"A long-shanked knave they chose, I wis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] Reference