Yes, you spindle-shanked rascal, you may well wince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

"Thanks, ye spindle-shanked maniac," answered Arcie with a cheerful grin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villains by Necessity]

Here are two chairs worthy of us, generals among this spindle-shanked regiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

"Heard you got tossed out of camp again, Hamlin," Roscoe Knapp said to a tall, pale-faced, spindle-shanked fellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Old spindle-shanked Edgar sits next to her and feels the aura of the streets and thinks herself back into another century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

He found relaxation in the vaudeville picture he had of the spindle-shanked hypocrite fretting in the cold so many miles distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

"Fifty years old," replied I. "Certainly, fifty years old, but stout and healthy; none of your spindle-shanked dandies -- your Stauntons".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference

The bridegroom sat beside her — rather a withered spindle-shanked little man, but this only proved him to be of the true-blue blood, a legitimate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

It was a fair lesson of humility for a man to find himself ranked beneath this high-shouldered, spindle-shanked, beardless bit of neutrality; and as such I took it duly to heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Isn't there time enough left for that spindle-shanked hypocrite?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II] Reference

'There they go, mincing and tripping, as spindle-shanked as pencils and parasols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norse Tales and Sketches] Reference

And in response each black spindle-shanked juror shambled to his feet and answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire] Reference

Oh, these dear spindle-shanked Schoolmen! they were people, respected reader, not to be sneezed at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference

Bienlausi, or the Legless, because he was spindle-shanked, had no sap in his bones, and consequently no children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romany Rye] Reference

Beinlausi, or the Legless, because he was spindle-shanked, had no sap in his bones, and consequently no children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'] Reference

One educated Minnesotan, with his machinery, must count for many spindle-shanked Hindoos with their wooden rakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the World] Reference

The boy was flat-chested and spindle-shanked and used to bank on his physical weakness when lessons were to be evaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference

Barrel-bodied, spindle-shanked and chrome-domed, what Gru lacks in physical charm (everything) he compensates for with hard-wired ambition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

It provoked a smile or two from the more frivolous as the grey, gaunt, spindle-shanked old man stalked by, yet it was not without its pathetic side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2] Reference

A hedge of forlorn fir-trees knee-deep in wooden tubs guarded its terrasse of round metal tables and spindle-shanked chairs; of which few were occupied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference

But among those very spindle-shanked, terra-cotta dwellers who cower at draughts and eat soda mints, the ancient struggle for supremacy wages fiercer than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories] Reference

He was a tall, rakish-looking fowl, whose erect carriage and lack of tail-feathers made him look like a spindle-shanked urchin as he towered there among the busy hens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference

She was taking her place, morbidly sensitive and a woman of eighteen, among little spindle-shanked girls in short skirts, and the little girls were more advanced than she.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Cumberlands] Reference

The Duchess Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

Page view page image: tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden, — what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life] Reference

"Yes, and then you must call him a spindle-shanked clodhopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01] Reference

Where did ye get yer ideas of nature, anyway, ye spindle-shanked carpenter's apprentice? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army] Reference

A spindle-shanked flute-player.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

Long-legged, but not spindle-shanked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

So spindle-shanked, so wry-faced, so infirm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini] Reference

The spindle-shanked, low-browed, and cock-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [When hearts are trumps] Reference

Marcus was small, round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, and freckle-faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood in Norway] Reference

Although extremely narrow-chested and spindle-shanked, he is big-bellied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference

'' Why, Sir, he's a tall, stooping, lantern-jawed, asthmatic-voiced, spindle-shanked fellow. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference

How goose-faced, rabbit-mouthed, lantern-jawed, pot-bellied, spindle-shanked, and splay-footed they are!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Rebellion] Reference