"Spindle-shanked" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a tall, stooping, lantern-jawed, asthmatic-voiced, spindle-shanked fellow.' Here he put his foot on the rail of my chair, and slightly scratched the calf of his leg. 'Hair the color of a cock-canary,' thrusting his fingers through his own coal-black ringlets; 'with ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 - Volume 23, Number 2 • Various
... must call him a spindle-shanked clodhopper. That's what the bailiff calls him when ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... a devilish thing it is, for a Woman to be obliged to go to bed to a spindle-shanked young Squire, she doth not like, when there is a jolly Parson in the same House ...
— An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews • Conny Keyber |
