She stood spraddle-legged, wobbling, head drooping. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The guard stood, spraddle-legged, against the door. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
A tired-looking woman rested spraddle-legged in a straight chair. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Gotta love that spraddle-legged model pose in the top right picture. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Tom DeLay’s New Cause: Conservative Takeover Of ‘Dancing With The Stars’] Reference
Their closeness to the stone forced them into spraddle-legged stances. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
Herb noted the cow's distended udder, causing her to walk spraddle-legged. From Wordnik.com. [Till Hell Freezes Over]
He ran like a drunken spider, spraddle-legged, staggering toward the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
I fumbled for the spex, sat spraddle-legged on the floor, and slipped them on. From Wordnik.com. [Yay!] Reference
From then on Newt worked spraddle-legged, so as to keep his feet out of the way. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Conan turned to see Sigurd standing spraddle-legged at the rail, roaring with good humor. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
A tall young woman just a hair short of six feet was sitting spraddle-legged in the center of the circle. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
He was passing the last bottle carrier-Reblay of Silly Rabbits, sitting spraddle-legged, his bottle thrown. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The dog, standing spraddle-legged at the top, gazed into the hole with deep suspicion, not liking whatever was down there. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Chaos]
Newbies to the poultry world also need some tips to avoid pasted vent and spraddle leg lovely names of even lovelier ailments!. From Wordnik.com. [Starting chicks....] Reference
Kekka stood in front of the hut, spraddle-legged in the dirt, hands on hips, staring with those cold eyes at Chase on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
They made a spraddle-legged line wobbling along after Alise, everyone but the two apprentices muttering to herself Alise included. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Some Maidens, those nearest Rand, were only now pulling themselves up from where they had been flung, and Pevin stood spraddle-legged, holding himself upright with the red banner's staff, his scarred face still blank as slate. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Off across the park as I approached they were skating on the pond, and everywhere the park swarmed with kids, belly-flopping onto low wooden sleds, smaller kids bundled to the ears on high spraddle-runnered sleds pulled by older sisters, brothers, or adults. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
Skirts kilted high, she would walk spraddle-legged down the center of the shed, drenching the cloth between her legs, and the hot fumes rose fresh and suffocating from the soaking wool, while the waulkers pulled back their feet from random splashes, and made crude jokes. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Another suddenly adopts an awkward, spraddle-legged walk. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
It don't allers mean that they're hostile, an 'about to spraddle forth on missions of blood. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfville Nights] Reference
Then, in the glow of our lamplight, came the sergeant-major standing spraddle-legged in front of us. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Trail] Reference
"And all the good hard dollars just waiting for someone to spraddle them around!" said Mr. Bunner with a note of pathos in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in Black] Reference
Besides, they all want to spraddle their legs apart and set their feet wide, so as to stand firm on the chariot bed, so they want the chariot body made as wide as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
36 BEN BOVA of its retros, the cold gas glittering briefly in the sunlight, and the spraddle-legged vehicle slowed. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
A lamb, quick as a kitten, see the little bundle of nerves start the instant the reins are gathered, and how, with that squat between the shafts, and spraddle, and overreach in the hind legs, known to every horseman as the surest sign of going, he is settled to his work, and spinning us along at a slashing gait. From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
Just spraddle you legs out and let him crawl on. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier Just From the Marine] Reference
"Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets, we've shunned them from the greasy-grind. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
Now you-all spraddle out your fingers. ". From Wordnik.com. [Miss Minerva and William Green Hill] Reference
I kin turn a handspring like you, and purt 'nigh walk on my hands; and you kin p'form on the slack-rope -- and spraddle out like the ` inja-rubber man' -- and hold a pitch - fork on yer chin-and stand up on a horse 'ithout a-holdin' -- and -- and -- Oh! ever'thing! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
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