And he hated that, because the pants twisted up around his legs and made it next to impossible to even bend his knees and sleep on his side, which was the most comfortable way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mama Mwanza without a leg to stand on lost her two smallest ones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember remembering,'’ she muttered, sitting down with a heavy sigh; she pulled her legs up to wrap her arms around her knees. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

With fierce, sudden grace, Brent’s arms extend while almost simultaneously, he straightens his back leg as his front foot skims forward. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Beneath the coverlet, his legs were pale, soft, ghastly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of them bellowed loudly and charged across the marsh with its tail tucked between its legs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun reflected off the water onto their faces and arms and legs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We milled around behind the starting blocks, nervous, shaking out our arms and legs, everything as quiet as if the coach had already said, “Ready.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The leg was placed in a black bag filled with ice to help stop the swelling. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just gonna carry it around waiting to stab yourself in the leg?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad phoned the people who had made my legs and they said it could be repaired by anyone who had a spot welder. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He was worried about Gram, but less about her leg than her raspy breathing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He stared curiously at me for a few seconds, wondering at this new game, then scampered over and wrapped himself around my leg. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘I already had typhoid. I had pneumonia and a broken leg and a infected foot.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were strong and healthy, and they could stand on their back legs and eat the leaves from the shrubs that other animals could not reach. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want my leg fooled with by a first captain. If he was any good he would be made a major. I know what a first captain is, doctor.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were bending down and pulling the calf by the legs, heaving at it like a cork stuck in a bottle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I rest my hand on the rim and leap over, bending, then quickly straightening my legs into the space beneath the glove box. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m okay, I’m okay!” she assured them, trying to get back to her feet, slapping the dust off her legs and butt. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Alexander found Pollard lying supine with his leg up in traction, his misery greatly assuaged by a leggy private nurse named Agnes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Kaede couldn’t understand why Con’s left leg was bent at such a strange angle, but as she walked the last few feet to him, she realized that his face was white with pain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our legs moved mechanically, in spite of us, without us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She patted his leg gently and said, “I don’t want to talk about it, okay?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He felt every step—the rub of his wet socks in his shoes, the burn of his wounded leg, the ache in his hand—but he also felt more himself than he ever had before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I slide my legs off the bed and step to the small window in my room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Standing on metal legs, it rises above the trees. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I asked, disgusted at the thought of bleeding between my legs. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The movement unhinged his legs and he fell to his knees, knocking down the grass like so much chaff. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I ask, thinking of the childhood wounds on my own legs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The white walls were now painted beige, and instead of the big comfy sofa, stiff chairs sat alongside a cement-looking couch balancing on tiny wooden legs. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And I guess that’s what happened to Mr. Barber, who forgot that his left foot was behind the back leg of my chair. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A platform seat they could spread out on, tuck their legs under. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wrap my shaking arms around my legs, resting my head on my knees and squeezing my eyes tightly shut. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, there was a little more blood, seeping through the thin fabric between her legs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Kevin smiled, and then he and Joey stretched their legs out straight, so their socks were practically in my face, and pulled up their sweats from the bottom. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sirens flashed, and Sean and Jonas Apple helped Finn to his feet, his legs so stiff he could no longer feel them, the air outside him and the air inside him foggy and thick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they asked if I knew anything about an accident and you breaking your legs.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

All he wanted now as they followed the path away from the road was to forget about the leg. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I tuck my legs up, cross-legged on the seat, and press my lips together. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He tapped Pong's leg with his walking stick. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He kept shifting in his seat every time the coach put his hand on my leg or waist. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We were scooched together in one of those red vinyl booths and were both in shorts, the seats icy on our sun-hot legs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Midnight rises up on his hind legs, his forelegs curled in front of him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Soon they spent as much time on four legs as on two, and it was at this point that they became a new creature. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The sugar broke Ma’s lower extremities, which is how doctors say legs. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I remember remembering,” she muttered, sitting down with a heavy sigh; she pulled her legs up to wrap her arms around her knees. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My parents had an advantage over the five of us because our legs did not reach the other end of the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shasta's legs ached terribly as he saddled Bree and climbed into the saddle, but the Horse was kindly to him and went at a soft pace all afternoon. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In August, a Salvadoran arrived with his leg hanging by a bit of skin and muscle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Wet with dew, straggly branches slapped and scratched at my legs and hid uneven ground so that several times I tripped, tumbling and sliding downward. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Moreover, he was a boy whom no man could hurt; an invulnerable and dodging serpent who, when chased into a corner, flew out again between his captor’s legs, scornfully yelping. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sun traveled farther westward; sage and cholla shadows shifted slightly; some ants crawled up their pant legs “1 guess we might as well begin,” Snuffy said, slowly unbending his aching limbs, arising. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lifts my leg and uses thick tape to strap it down. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Pri, Aunt Jo, and her friends all cheer and clap when I come down the stairs in borrowed high heels that make my legs wobble, and Donna takes a few pictures of me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If you have managed to push your arms and legs as far as they can go, then you will be able to stand up, just barely, and get someone to zip the back closed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Third, a live grouse with its legs tied together; fourth, the soft, tanned pelt of an ant bear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feed the chickens, pack in wood, cook cornbread, wash dishes, wash Little Arliss, and sometimes even change the prickly-pear poultice on my leg. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cuts from scratching mosquito bites I got over the summer were now fading thanks to the cocoa butter Mama made me rub on my legs at night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was a skill he had taught himself long ago, being unable to perform more vigorous work because of his bad leg. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She frees her hips, her legs follow, and in an instant she’s gone, leaving only a porthole-sized gap where she had been. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The body of the victim was lying halfway . . . his legs were half sticking out from behind the counter. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day, and the next, Two Strike’s legs moved up and down, her feet, in clean new makazins, crushed the tough hulls. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s from the pain medication. Do your arm and leg hurt very much?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I try to push him away, but his footing is too sure and my leg is still too numb. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Myron’s leg bent in a way it was never supposed to. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Blue Boy bellowed and turned toward her, exposing the unprotected back of his legs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My eyes fly open and I scream, “Get off my leg!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“This will keep you warm,” she said, tucking it around Lina’s legs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father gripped my legs to keep his balance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We would stop to wipe the blood off our lips, arms, and legs only when the bell rang for mealtime. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He leaned back against the wall with his legs stretched out in front of him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed the towel between my legs and pulled it away almost immediately. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I stood up, my artificial leg started to rattle loose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He pulled it down and she raised her legs to aid him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His legs were sprawled wide in helpless relaxation and one of the buttons was missing from his grease-caked pants opening. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed and uncrossed his long legs to stand up. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We were, however, allowed to shave our legs and bleach our mustaches. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I watch as he creates a new cast for my right leg that goes from my toes to the top of my thigh. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He sat with his long legs stretched before him, his hands clasped behind his neck. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Skinner and Sour Alyn seized his arms and legs and tossed him from the wall to the ground eighty feet below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sonny Greenberg came out to look the horse’s leg over. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We demanded to have our leg irons removed, and with the support of the dentist, our guards took them off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting with his legs splayed, his head bent, and arms soft at his side, TaShon is and isn’t himself. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She flings herself onto the chesterfield, legs across the arm, head hanging upside-down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m not so much afraid of the pain as I am of not being able to work this pipe leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“The Cougar just got throwed off a horse he was working and busted his leg,” he sobbed to David Alexander. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kick my leg out from under the covers, pull them back over me, take them off again. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s about the size of a small dog, but walks on two legs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He felt a tug at his leg, looked down: Sorrel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times she sat cross-legged, at times with legs splayed, surrounded by an array of colanders and shallow bowls of water in which she immersed her chopped ingredients. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aristocrats were people who didn’t blow spit bubbles or shiver their legs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another wrapped around Piper’s legs and dragged her, screaming, toward the rail. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My legs are shaking, and not from the cold either. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bob and his saber-toothed sidekick continued to weave around Tartarus’s legs, attacking, and dodging to stay out of his clutches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sonia pummels the water with her arms and pushes it behind her with her legs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tori is trying to walk, but one of her legs drags behind her, useless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wings flared and rabidly desperate insect legs dug into Ben’s palm for leverage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prince glared back at Jemmy, and then stooped down to retrieve the broken leg of a chair from the mud. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to cross his legs but a slight swelling troubles his groin today: odd, though not painful. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once again, my legs seemed to be failing me, but the doctor took it all in stride. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She’s talking about the carved wood details on the legs and on the ledge where the sheet music goes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Pris clipped off another leg, restraining the spider with the edge of her hand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some waddled on legs partially fused together, while others had flippers for feet, which reminded Percy of clown shoes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel, with the torch beam behind him, had almost reached the other ditch when he felt a sharp blow on one of his hind legs and a hot, stinging pain along his side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls wore dresses that sparkled, and kicked their legs high in the air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

His ears droop, his eyes close, and he shifts his weight so he’s resting one hind leg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s just bluster,” he replied, and squeezed his eyes together when he moved his leg. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some tear apart bedsheets for diapers; a few find newspapers and fold those into triangles and pin them between their babies’ legs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My rubbery legs almost giving way under me, I reached the toilet just in time to empty the vile contents of my stomach into it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My leg hurt so much by the time I had reached the house that it was hard for me to crawl under the fence and move aside the heavy rock. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that isn’t too terrible,” Boo Boo said, holding him between the two vises of her arms and legs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Eh? So I don’t count? Has Eugene ever asked about your aching leg? If I do not count, then I will stop asking if you rose well in the morning.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see deer with legs like delicate twigs. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I swung my leg back to kick, but the ball went rolling right under me, through my legs, to the other Palmetto defender, who cleared it away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robot locked her arms and legs around the tree and waited for the storm to blow over. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As she got older, Pearl would still cling to her mother’s leg, then her waist, then her hand, as if there were something in her mother she needed to absorb through the skin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Looking down at me, the doctors saw that both my legs were mangled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

By the time he reached his front door, his legs were quivering and his arms were about to fall off. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When the food's cooked, I pack most of it up, leaving us each a rabbit's leg to eat as we walk. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had a strong will and tough leg muscles, but in less than five minutes I needed my fingertips to steady myself. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

One year later, she saw a thirteen-year-old Salvadoran boy who had lost both legs trying to board a train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I am glad I sleep fully clothed, because Christina stands next to our bunk wearing only a T-shirt, her long legs bare. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A homeless man with no legs screams in front of a Starbucks. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His complexion was very dark, like old bark, and the hair that covered his chest and legs was a lustrous, darker shade. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad slipped out of his flannel shirt and pressed it to my leg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The cuts on her naked body were smaller, dotting her arms and legs like slightly parted red lips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My legs try, but the shouts are upon me. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Leg after leg of water he poured over me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

His blanket fell away from his legs, but the legs didn’t move. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His legs are very long, and they don’t really fit under our kitchen table, so he has to sit kind of sideways, with his knees pointing out toward the hall. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If we can break off the legs, we can use the top as a stretcher.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“With good reason,” Celaena said, stepping over the legs of the Crown Prince and nearing the fifth pup. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I sigh and slam my laptop shut just as the front door squeaks open and out comes Janae, wearing strappy sandals and newly shaven, oiled legs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Eric was squealing louder than ever and pedalling the air with his legs. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped running, and walked through wide fields of knee-high grass that made our legs wet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At that Turner crossed his legs the other way and kept right on smoking his pipe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the silence, I could hear the sound of the bone breaking, and the dog backed away on three legs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What everyone agrees upon, strangely, is that somehow Luke ended up on the front lawn, his leg in a garbage can. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The gryphons arrived in a wave of angry beaks, talons, and wings, swarming around the giant, trying to get under his legs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, rope-thick weeds were wrapping around Dr. Thorns legs, entangling him. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her legs screamed in protest with every stride, but she pushed to stay on Mama’s heels. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And his gaze traveled upward from legs planted so firmly they might as well have been tree trunks to a torso carved of stone, immovable, ivory arms, up to a blanched face that— Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His legs trembled in an ague, and his eyes closed against the biting cloud. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my legs folded under me, and I sat down in the sopping grass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, she rolled onto her back and pried the jar off her face with her hind legs. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He bends and picks me up, trying to cradle my right leg in the crook of his arm. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then he was peeling them down her legs, and she was still crying silently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My left arm became my right leg, my right leg became my left leg, and so on. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He watched me carefully as he swung his legs over the side of the bed and sat up, cradling his shoulder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Once I reached the sanctuary door, I allowed myself to turn around, head faint and legs trembling. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wasp landed squarely on it now, almost embracing it with its black legs as it delivered another sting to the belly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My legs were so soft, my gut was so soft, my bones were so soft, I’d barely made it down the hall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He whirled back to Yossarian and, before he could speak, sneezed thunderously six times, staggering sideways on rubbery legs in the intervals and raising his elbows ineffectively to fend each seizure off. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ron swung his long legs off the bed and sat up. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"I broke my leg," she told him sadly, "when I fell." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“She has phlebitis in both legs,” he said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Old Pops and I have got four good legs between us,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then lightning struck again, shooting up my leg and into my skull, sending me deep into the fog. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me doesn’t quite believe she’s got a fake leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

My legs go numb, like all the life has gone out of them, and I wonder how I will walk when my name is called. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At first I can’t believe it’s them, but when I get a better look, I recognize Lorena’s crazy hair and skinny legs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Later I saw him mimicking me; he would recline on the sofa with his little legs propped on pillows, speaking intermittently into the recorder as though he were taking drags on a cigarette. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come Christmas Day, we would fly home to find a leg of lamb thawing beneath six inches of frost, the purchase date revealing that it had been bought midway through the Carter administration. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I look down and see red fingermarks on the back a her legs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He just kept getting tangled in Alex’s legs and then veering off to sniff around benches and dig inside trash barrels. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

"I'm afraid my friend has a broken leg," he called, "and I've hurt my hand. I don't think either of us can climb a ladder." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They hung on to Mamá’s legs like two children who had just been found after being lost. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And all forty-two of his legs were sticking out straight in front of him, like rods. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

With each stride, he pivoted on the leg, holding the line of the turn at close to forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran as fast as he could, but the snake just laughed at those short legs and drew closer and closer to the fleeing boy. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Roger’s daemon, tail tucked firmly between her legs, shivered against him and gave a little quiet howl. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He has forgotten his exhaustion and his sore leg. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He is more than a foot taller than Pa, with very hairy long arms and legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swept out his leg and knocked Jason off his feet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I sat down next to her with my legs crossed and our knees touching. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her legs are encased in striped stockings, her feet in tall black button-up boots. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As if it were a great wave that swept my legs from beneath me, I sat suddenly on the floor and wept. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as his legs were free he tried to bolt, but one swift curl of the Elephant’s trunk round his waist soon put an end to that. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“No, no...oh, the pain of this darn leg! Stupid, stupid!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It—he—stood on his hind legs, and his muzzle twitched in wry amusement. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She imagined dew-dampened grass batting at her shoes and the legs of her trousers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So Dad took the leg to the local service station to see if they could weld it together. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He bounced Guzzo with his shoulder and they went at it for a few seconds, trying to get position on each other, get a leg in front, and box the other one’s back. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I swung my legs out and let him pass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven wiggled her arms and legs and made a weird face. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The waiter had come forward to serve Lane’s frogs’ legs and salad, and Franny looked up at him. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I breathed in deep and forced my Jell-O legs onto the stage. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Christina, sprawled across her cot with one long leg dangling over the edge, gives me a look. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“All I know is, them bandy little legs of yours is every bit as old as mine.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the room another five minutes but never again addressed the solemn quartet that stood with heads down, their heavy legs sagging, the light dwindling from their eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he was close, he shot for Luke’s legs. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The legs of the bull folded under him and the chain buried itself in the fat of his neck. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thick, hairless leg leaned out of his bathrobe. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I sat down, put my leg up on the kitchen table, and called Froggy. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rose from the ground, traveling up her legs until she was filled to the brim with it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She had traveled half of the trip in a hammock that two men carried on their shoulders, because swelling had disfigured her legs and her varicose veins had puffed up like bubbles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The giantess had the same dragon-like legs and the same long braided hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She moaned a little, massaging her swollen leg. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All he knew was that his legs were carrying him forward as though he was on casters and that he had shouted stupidly at the snake, “Leave him alone!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His hand now curled between his legs, he concentrated on the girl. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing my legs off the bed and slide into my hunting boots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Whereas Johnny kicked and hollered as he went down, Gat is silent, legs together. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“No, Mila, we made the agreement because of how you attacked my leg. In case you forgot.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So my moms said I already had blue Vans, but these were totally different,” Stacy says, sticking her legs out to show off her shoes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The mouths of the workers gaped in wild cries; their legs were sprawled over cities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts up his pants leg, revealing a plaid sock over a prosthetic. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He wants to stay tangled up in Henry’s legs forever. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I swear her hands turned as red hot as the metal she melted when she rubbed my leg. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The whole team was changed and ready; Coote and Peakes, the Beaters, were both hitting their clubs nervously against their legs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A peppery cloud of flies hovered over the flopped arms and legs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then he climbs down, slips his hand inside Pete’s, and ambles off on bowed legs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His leg pains flared up, flashed through his body, and the laundry odors, the steamy stench, all at once sickened him, picked him up and propelled him out the door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the craziest thing was, I felt like the shot—loudest sound I ever heard—made my legs move even faster. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He sat on the edge of the bed, nervously bouncing his leg and holding his ears in frustration. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The taller one, laughing, says, “I wonder if you pull its leg off, will it grow back, like starfish?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I sat next to Sunny, stretched my legs out in front of me. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Parvati sat down on Harry’s other side, crossed her arms and legs too, and within minutes was asked to dance by a boy from Beauxbatons. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was startled, most of all, by the teenage boy in a baseball cap standing near a brick wall, face down, body leaning forward, hands between his legs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I follow her legs down to her knees, shins, and ankles. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If he did, he would've won because my legs were barely working, but he wouldn't test me, not after what had happened at lunch. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Finally con-vinced, he slapped my leg with glee and lowered his head. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They opened his cell, handcuffed him, and shackled his legs together. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If a leg costs that much, what did the hospital cost? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He hooked his bad leg in the rigging, ignoring the pain, checked the sight on his rifle, and began picking off anyone in range. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This time it seems to fit better, so he holds the fake leg so that the open end of the socket is facing my stump and says, “Just put your leg inside.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Ralph tried to keep his legs flexible by running short sprints around the fishbowl. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I gasp as pressure and pain shoot up my leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I try jumping over a few hurdles again, this time making sure I lead with my left leg, and it actually feels better. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

My arms were punching the water like it was a person and my legs were going a mile a minute to try to get back to the shore. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes he chased us—his fat arms out to the side; his fat fingers opening and closing; his legs stiff like Frankenstein’s monster, like the mummy dragging its foot; growling; laughing- crying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting next to him at sundown, high in a tree to get a better view of the gold and purple in the distance, swinging our legs as we watched the sun disappear. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pant leg flaps as she hurries me toward the school entrance. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember. I pretended a pedestrian broke her leg so he would come.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hell with them,” Ben said, pulling both of his feet upon the railing, encircling his bent legs with his arms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I sit with my legs crossed, only I think that looks weird, so I uncross them, only now I’m cold and nervous, so I cross them again. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Melyngar began to swim, her strong legs keeping her afloat and in motion, but the current swung her around; she collided with Taran and forced him under the water. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He learns that she sleeps, always, with her left leg straight and her right leg bent, ankle over knee, in the shape of a 4. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She dips and kicks and spins on her toes and crouches down to the floor with one leg behind her other leg. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Tayo held a hind leg; it was beginning to get stiff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and I held his arms while the cook sat on his good leg. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chill touched the blood on his head; his arms and legs were shaking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax cried jubilantly as Jello turned, put his tail between his legs, and raced back to the other pups. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As, with benumbed legs, he slowly left the still sleeping town at daybreak, a crouching shadow emerged from the last hut and joined the pilgrim. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could almost feel the quills pricking through his jeans into his leg. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Kino was not breathing, but his back arched a little and the muscles of his arms and legs stood out with tension and a line of sweat formed on his upper lip. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Must have been four, five feet long, just lookin’ for somebody’s leg to wrap itself around.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow petals floated between and around Nathan’s legs into the circling winds before him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Celia would be coming down the hall with one of those short little skirts she wears, looking tan and sweet and with those fine legs of hers strutting like she owned the world. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was scraping at the mud on her bare legs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We’re still square,” said Harry, testing his leg gingerly; it shook violently as he put weight on it; he had sprained his ankle when the spider had dropped him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he swung his legs over the side of the bed and put on his shoes, straining every nerve to hear the sounds from downstairs. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, we had an aluminum tub you could fit into if you pulled your legs up against your chest. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They look like giant snakes with two legs.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Malik asks, rolling onto his back and raising his right leg. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I raise him up, he stands on the uninjured leg and supports himself against a tree. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of arms wrapped around my chest, another around my legs, and it didn’t matter how hard or loud we were screaming, the kids dragged us away from Liam all the same. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Which is just about big enough for one of my legs. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They put an ice pack on my swollen, bruised arm, take my blood pressure and heart rate, and examine my leg. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, because her legs were suddenly very tired. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The rain, the mad current, the bullets, the crocodiles, the welter of arms and legs, the screams, the blood.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her stockings so she wouldn’t get a run and then glided to the floor as if her legs had been built to go in opposite directions. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Charlie, who couldn’t possibly reach as high as that, put his arms around Grandpa Joe’s legs and hung on tight. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

At last in slow motion one of the soldiers turned his head so that his cheek was cradled between the girl’s legs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my mom and I sit in the hard plastic chairs, and I’m confronted with the reality of the old man and his leg again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hari had been too weak to walk to the river on his own legs, but now the river seemed to strengthen him. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And now let’s come to you, Silvertongue!” said Capricorn, stretching his legs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Was he a scientist? I didn’t know. He’s got a hyena dæmon with a missing leg.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the horns were sawed off blunt, and he had only three good legs, so Romero took him home and doctored him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with your leg?” the woman grinding melon seeds asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They wanted these Mexican cattle because they are fast and tough. And no loss to them when they happen to break the legs or the neck.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She hopped over on her hind legs and held up a single sheet of paper. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The short fat legs of Tubs Casper carried him through the neighborhood in what for him was record time. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a fairly pretty girl, except that she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dana’s clench was smothering, but Roy found he could still move his lower legs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red puccoon dye protects my back, chest, arms, and legs from insects and the burning of the sun, and my moccasins protect my feet for running. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Lou, hampered by a leg muscle he’d injured on the first morning of the trek to Base Camp, was slow but competent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He uncrossed his legs, edged forward on the couch, and clamped her knees between his. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I hear you broke a leg,” he says. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He stared at my leg longer than was necessary. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

With every bit of strength in his body, he’d pulled himself out of the water and wrapped his arms and legs around the trunk. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got to sit up in a wheelchair, and the leg felt all right in spite of the cast. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front legs of his chair came down with a bang, and he subsided into chuckles. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then he sank one back leg into the cat’s side and kicked backward rapidly, several times. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weasel struck him again and again upon the legs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was a dwarf, half his brother's height, struggling to keep pace on stunted legs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My legs felt like soggy fideo noodles too from all the walking and running. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He came in closer, still crying, to stand between his mother’s legs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Each year, after he had been gone for a whole winter and returned, the faithful Sounder would come hobbling on three legs far down the road to meet him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hissed again and tried to dart between her legs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It basically looks like a rectangle-shaped metal basket with legs and wheels. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I bend down and hold up my toes, stretching the backs of my legs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Shifting the light, Rashid looked at the girl again and spotted a small yellow bag sticking out from under one of her legs and slid it out. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Osha would need to carry Rickon; his little legs wouldn't take him far on their own. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So they sat between his bed and his stereo, where there was just enough room to sit with their legs bent. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I fly out of my chair and Rubio flings out his long legs, stopping me before I skid past him and into the metal console. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were no longer on his head and shoulders but had moved down to his stomach, legs, and feet. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A few little roots smacked Anya as she went, and she scraped her legs and feet on the bottom of the river a few times, but she mostly continued unobstructed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You mean those poor sore objects attached to my legs?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I tried to step toward her, but my legs wouldn’t move. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In a knot of tangled arms, legs, and muskets, the four of them wedged into the doorframe. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The back door opened, and out came a woman, all legs. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return the Blooms had received bottles of homemade chokecherry wine, a leg of mutton, Halloween pumpkins, even hay bales for their two Shetland ponies, Orangutan and Sunflower. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas kicked out with his right leg, connecting with the arm attached to the claw. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Pinmei’s feet lost all feeling, and her legs threatened to go limp with each step. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dog swam back with its legs going as though it was racing across a field. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more than the pain in my leg, more than my wrist dangling in front of me, was the thought that I was going to die. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duke himself was sitting in a very cushy, very regal dog bed—his right front leg wrapped in a plaster cast. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He wore a wide-sleeved tunic of black, and ankle-length hose with a different color for each leg, one blue, the other red, though the colors were faded. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

His work-roughened hands wrapped around her pink shoes, anchoring her legs against his chest. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I bet she got a real good look at my legs. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The beast’s leg was torn clean off its body. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were about the size of deer or antelopes, and similarly colored, but what made her stop still and rub her eyes was the arrangement of their legs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had bare legs and was applying bandages to her blistered toes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Boss is falling, madly flailing his arms and legs and screaming. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She looked down on her long thin and as yet formless legs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I hope I’m right too. I did what I could to fix your leg. Now you have to believe it’s fixed.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She slinks right back to him, rubbing herself against his legs, oblivious to the years of rotten luck she’s filling our lives with. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A group of young women got permission from Aleksandr Gridnev to swim in a nearby river—and the following day their legs and backs were covered with strange burns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There’s really no denying that I have breasts and legs in this thing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It takes him a little while to get his bad leg going. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It roused her some, and she lifted her working leg. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys I hardly knew would be able to see me as I took off my legs and put them back on again. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then one of Toto’s bullets hit me on my leg and I remembered. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The leg in question had turned to jelly. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At roughly the same time, the government introduced the deceptively named Extension of University Education Act, another leg of grand apartheid, which barred nonwhites from racially “open” universities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma, Carlos, and Kim are joyful, decorating my tombstone, laying chicken legs and cornbread on my mound. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

We were walking on the beach and the wind whipped Halmoni’s long skirt around her legs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“His legs are pillars of marble, founded upon sockets of fine gold, his appearance is like the Lebanon, chosen as the cedars.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Something wrong with his leg and something worse with his chest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fred rose up on his hind legs and hopped around the cage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even her picking a switch off the forsythia bush and stinging my legs would have been welcome. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on one leg to catch them, casually, as if he didn’t even have to look. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

See, there was this weird period between my dad's passing and my mother losing her legs that my mom always calls "the funky zone" because I was acting, well...funky. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I walked about outside to get my legs working, leaning on a staff I cut from the peach tree. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You threw it away? A prosthetic leg, you just threw it away?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

While Papa and the judge massaged his arms and legs, I wiped the frozen sleet from his eyes and face. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nunu pointed: the dog had his leg up, leaving his mark on a mail box to alert the world that he’d been there. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “to be fair, I do have great leg.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I walked out with my legs wobbly and my underarms wet with sweat. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretch my legs out behind me and lean on my elbows. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I cross my legs under the table and feel the left boot greeting the right boot. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She thought of her weary capering legs and how nice it would be to rest them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A shimmering snail’s trail wrapped the enormous wolf, tying his legs, rendering him immobile. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Manchee barks an angry “Aaron!” and goes for Aaron’s legs, but Aaron doesn’t even look before kicking him outta the way hard. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My arms and legs felt like the heavy bags from Dad’s gym, and moving them took more effort than I ever imagined possible. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I let go of the bracelet, it held fast to my father’s leg. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ron, going still paler with pain, wrenched his broken leg out of Pettigrew’s reach. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She held it against her and swished the bottom across her legs. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, boy, don’t you wish you were down here in Florida?The close-up faded and another came, showing two pairs of legs standing close together. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had one arm in a cast, one leg bandaged and held off the floor, and bruises on his face, including a black eye. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about What walks on four legs in the morning’?” “I beg your pardon?” the Sphinx said, clearly annoyed now. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a bench in the middle, and Abby’s sitting on it sideways with her legs tucked up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Turning my head sideways, I could see them standing on their hind legs, tearing and slashing at each other. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I did read what he wrote on my running leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Smith was worried that the load would strain the leg, so he pulled out the yellow sweating hood and gave the horse slow gallops. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately a ball of blood the size of a baseball formed in the monkey’s leg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a dark triangle of fur between her legs and turn away, embarrassed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rain and wind were overtaking her, rubbing away the details of her legs; the sun was bleaching her hooves into faint outlines, merging into the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His nearly empty book bag was light, but his arms and legs grew heavy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Their wings were twice as tall is she was, and—she glanced back, frightened now, over her shoulder as she fled—they had powerful legs: no wonder they had moved so fast on the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To receive phone calls, she wore her most serious pair of trousers, her most muted shade of lipstick, and she spoke sitting upright at her desk, legs crossed, her voice measured and sure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sickness began with chills, headache, and a painful aching in the back, arms, and legs. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I yell into his bewildered face as my leg crashes into his chest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought I was still asleep because I often dreamed that my legs were too heavy to move. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Brian, his cheeks wet with tears, was holding his hands protectively between his legs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Willy’s not trying to be mean—it’s just that his arms and legs are in constant motion. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ron crawled to the four-poster and collapsed onto it, panting, his white face now tinged with green, both hands clutching his broken leg. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The hair beneath her arms went next, then her legs, and last of all the fine golden down that covered her mound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He saw his legs, and moved them aside for a glimpse of the sled beneath. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Grendel tore his victim limb from limb, picking off arms and legs, lapping up the blood with a greedy tongue, taking big bites to crunch up bones and swallow gory mouthfuls of flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flings himself into his seat, his legs in the aisle, then takes his cap off and slaps it against the seat in front of us, raising a small cloud of dust. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth, testing his legs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Now, you know they don’t want us to votin’,” Spoon Man chided, tipping his chair back on two legs. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The joyful kick of a brand-new pair of legs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The whole room was about being a boy, and when boys were in there, they liked to talk about what was between their legs. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In his person, Beowulf was below average size; he looked taller sitting down than standing up, because his broad chest and shoulders were out of proportion to his legs, which were short. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doha’s legs gave out and he sank down next to Gunwoo. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You have his long arms and legs. But those eyes—those eyes definitely belong to my side of the family.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually a fact emerged; it was one of his legs, which had been “shattered.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

You'd think he was maybe two years old, that's how small he is, until you notice where his leg brace makes a lump in his pants. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I took my time getting to the courts, practicing dribbling the ball between my legs, but I also tried my best to absorb the new neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If you start sinking, you simply fall backward and spread yourself out as far as you can as you try to pull your legs free. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I give you a witch with hair like spider legs, and you give me a kindly spirit that helps you do hard things?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was taking tight close-ups of a scab on her leg, and I had her flat up against the very brick wall that had scraped her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the pain of my leg, I felt the sharp rip across my scalp where the glass cut into it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

One wants his leg placed so, another so, a third wants water, a fourth wants her to shake his pillow;—in the end the buxom old body grumbled bad-temperedly and slammed the doors. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at this moment, precisely, that he found he could not rise; something had happened to his arms, his legs, his feet—ah, something had happened to John! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I got my legs blown off, in case you forgot.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With her second slipper secured, she removes her foot from the edge of the vanity and crosses her legs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They’re quick and comfortable, and I don’t have to deal with a floppy pant leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And then she sits, with her legs tucked up and her arms around her knees. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If he’d had a tail, he would have tucked it down between his legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“OK, Edna, I want you to wiggle your fingers and legs and face very gently. Not too much; we just want to loosen the mold a bit.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Come, take it, Ranofer. It will quiet your rumblings, as the man said when he tossed his right leg to the crocodile.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We were arms and legs and lips, fearless and frenzied. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He’d worn his best suit, unaware that a piece of bubble gum was stuck to the back of his jacket and that cornflake crumbs clung to his pant legs. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed onto my legs in an effort to keep me from rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The days their legs itched from the graft, from their leg hairs getting caught in the bandages, a prickly irritation that never stopped. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The splints were holding, and with Diana’s help, Z had managed to keep her legs mostly steady and elevated on the trip down the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The pain vanishes instantly but Bailey’s legs continue to tremble. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stood—his legs were a bit wobbly, but they held—and looked down the river. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

One young man who had a broken leg splinted and obviously healing crooked, and one old man who didn’t do much work any more. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Viper whined, bumping his pointed snout against Gran’s leg. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She lingered over the smooth scars on my back and leg, and I told her how the dog had bitten me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He dangled and rubbed his front legs together. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I turned to stare at the statue in the middle of the lawn, a black lion standing on its hind legs, tail curved upward, chest puffed out. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now he stood across from Fern, his legs apart and his arms folded. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of that, his left leg needed surgery so that it would not become longer than the right one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias’s legs were shaking so much that he had to sit down again. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All they know for certain is that, as soon as Mr. Wigg had appealed to Mary Poppins, the table below began to wriggle on its legs. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I lifted my foot under the table and rubbed it against Arturo’s leg. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

For instance, 1 remember a little boy with a plastic leg. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Mother,” said the girl, putting her weight on her right leg. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I swung my legs off the bench and sat up slowly, the last breath of stale air caught in my throat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It’s also taller than my good leg, which Hank says it’s supposed to be, but I feel off-kilter. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“The airplane was hit all over like a sieve, and I was wounded in the leg.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When my legs begin to tingle from sitting still too long, I tap one of the twins and ask for directions to the bathroom. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sitting up, legs straight out in front of him, wasn’t a good position. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Head and body were to be in one piece, with arms and legs jointed. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Even the time she found out I had shaved my legs, she was hysterical. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Below him someone's legs were getting tired and the desperate ululation advanced like a jagged fringe of menace and was almost overhead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He sits next to me, holding his leg straight as he does. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“In the leg. My luck held, though; bullet went in and out fair clean. Didn’t break the bone.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put these on,” Dr. Begbie said, pulling me to my feet whether my legs were ready or not. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Beto slipped past the stout legs of the mothers on their bench and climbed over their squirming babies to get to the aisle. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ghost burst through the waterfall in an angry rush, shook droplets from his fur, sniffed at the darkness suspiciously, then lifted a leg against one rocky wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On Valentine’s Day, Little Jimmy showed up on our front porch, with his skinny legs and his old bike. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They see them as great millepedes—“with babies’ legs at one end and old people’s legs at the other,” says Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a broken spear in his belly, and his furry goat legs were twisted at a painful angle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She heaved herself up to the saddle and swung her leg over the side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Simultaneously, he pulled the oar toward his chest against the resistance of the water, throwing all the strength of his combined arm, back, and leg muscles into the stroke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ink seeps through a crack and drips on my leg. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and an invisible rope snaked around my arms and legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I ’member watching the boy climb up on Spangler’s back, being careful not to kick Pap when he throwed his leg o’er. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t find any more on my legs, but as I gaze at my arms, I see a little cluster of them by my elbow, like white freckles. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She said, “Honey, you gunn bust my leg ’fore you bust that rock. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Smithers stood up, his legs straining to take the huge weight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly and carefully he rolled about in the thick mud until it formed a poultice, cooling the wounds in his leg and neck, preventing further blood loss. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even in Medallion there was a victorious swagger in the legs of white men and a dull-eyed excitement in the eyes of colored veterans. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His legs were already spindly and his taut, distended belly, like his tiny mother’s goiter, was completely at odds with the rest of his thin, narrow body and alert face. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, here was Mama’s yardboy galloping on the mule, his legs hanging almost to the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want him to put his hand between my legs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us ask the ladies to join our debate,” said Horatio, seating himself on a stool so that his long legs stuck out to the sides. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“They told Bertha they didn’t want to wake up one night to find a dragon snacking on their legs.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The muscles in my legs squeeze to the point where I feel like they could burst at any moment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“We had to put your daughter in a body cast. She’s growing. We want to prevent one leg from ending up shorter than the other. We hope it will work.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be a bundle of bed linens that had been cast out of an upper window, but then I saw a leg and an arm. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his bed, back to the wall, his thick, long legs splayed on the mattress. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A white greyhound is gnawing on Fabian’s leg. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger got off her tall stool, and its wooden legs made a screech on the linoleum. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right,” said Moody, sitting down and stretching out his wooden leg with a groan. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But take me along and you get Winnie in the bargain. Otherwise ...” The dresser pirouetted on one wooden leg, then tipped and crashed onto its side. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jeez, she could have sent a pigeon with a message banded to its leg and it would have gotten to me by now. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie and I sat down on the small side of the L, so I could sit facing Seanie with my legs uncrossed. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My legs pumped faster, cranking up a breeze. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Cradling my plate on crossed legs, I flip back the swim cap that’s attached to my suit and undo my hair. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We were walking down Frances Street when he pointed out a skinny man with white legs in Bermuda shorts. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is Ruthie. Remember you told me to visit her? She was in bed for almost an entire year with a broken leg.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The black brothers assured him that it was much stronger than it looked, but Tyrion's legs were cramping too badly for him to even contemplate the ascent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By all rights, Piper should’ve broken both legs in the fall, but she wasn’t going to complain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Finn’s leg itched under the bandages, and his hand throbbed; he should have known his brother's jaw was made of iron. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

That was partly it, and also he was afraid that in the flurry of bucking Gabilan might slip and fall on him and break his leg or his hip. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down incredulously at his wounded legs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He said there’d be trouble if the Government found out about Luke’s leg, that the Feds would take us kids away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We scurried out to Mom’s station wagon with our tails between our legs. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He cleaned off a leg of lamb, readying it to hang on a ceiling hook along with the day’s other fresh cuts of meat. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In a flowered, printed frock with legs underneath. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael stood first on one leg and then on the other. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“And besides,” added Sheriff Elwell, “teaching those people is like teaching dogs to walk on their hind legs. All they know is living off others.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The first step in the examination process would be to pry the thigh-high cavalry boot off Booth’s left leg. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood up. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He opened it, took a swig, winced, half coughed, and sat down on the couch with the milk between his legs. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Chinwe walked as if there were a hot object underfoot, raising each leg almost as soon as her other foot touched the floor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His long thin arms and legs make him look like the stick figures I used to draw on my schoolbooks. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, there was a pain in his chest, and his leg hurt as if he had landed on it first and twisted it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Alfhercht pulled his fingers back and wiped them on his pant leg, then took the passage to the right. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

By the time I caught up, my arms and legs were starting to cramp. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mother jumped in front of the gun to protect everyone, and that’s when she took the first bullet, not in her leg but in her butt cheek. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With Henrietta unconscious on the operating table in the center of the room, her feet in stirrups, the surgeon on duty, Dr. Lawrence Wharton Jr., sat on a stool between her legs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I collapsed the legs on the card table. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moira, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her stubby yellow-ended fingers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would no longer appear at his door at night and lie on her back and spread her legs silently, at least not for a while. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had driven the three hours to Pittsburgh in one swoop, without even stopping to use the restroom or stretch her legs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His heart was beating, almost fluttering, his legs were weak, his palms close to spurting sweat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pushed his seat as far as it would go, so he could stretch out his legs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The pain had gone on and on with the legs bent and I could feel it going in and out of the bone. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Javier sat down, his hand fell to Moss’s leg, where he gave it a gentle squeeze before bringing it back to his own controller. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sana runs her hands over my legs and arms. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was intact, wrapped tightly around the leg of his female captor, head buried against her shin. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he got back up and jumped on it, the wooden legs moaning as they scraped a few inches across the floor, leaving four identical scratches on the hardwood. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

When he came out again, the little silver bell was hooked over his left front leg. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had made an end of his breakfast, and was wiping his knife on his leg, I said to him, without a word of preface,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

In her Joan Crawford dress and swimmer’s legs. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother dressed the leg in mullein and comfrey salve, her own recipe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He gets the nurse to put a new bandage on my leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was tall and willowy, with legs for days and a tan that made her skin glow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The food Sirius had told them to bring was in Harry’s bag; they had sneaked a dozen chicken legs, a loaf of bread, and a flask of pumpkin juice from the lunch table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I turn my attention to Peeta and discover his leg is bleeding as badly as ever. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some were already walking, wobbly on their unsteady legs; others were no more than a few days old, wrapped in blankets, held by their Nurturers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bring my leg up and wedge it beneath my body. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could not get the image out of her head of the impression of his legs in the snow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He quickly helped Diana wrap Z’s shirt and paper towels around her legs while Z bound the makeshift bandages with duct tape. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He sighed, and his wings and his legs all relaxed as he waited there for Tucker Mouse. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

TaShon’s legs are dangling, his hands holding tight to the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Showing up with a coffee stain on your leg.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know Seymour,” said the girl, and crossed her legs again. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mateo sits on the swing, holds on for dear life—I know—takes a few steps, and propels forward, his legs looking like they’re about to kick over a building. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A crew composed entirely of eight amped-up, overtly aggressive oarsmen will often degenerate into a dysfunctional brawl in a boat or exhaust itself in the first leg of a long race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When he reached Toomer, he reared back on his hind legs and lifted his head to be scratched by the black man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rammed the legs forwards, banging them on the ground again and again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I take in the familiar bend of his gimpy leg, the little curled left hand. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was stopped by his leash, which was knotted to a steel ring at the base of his perch and to the jesses on his legs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now, as in those ancient times, the sharp-eyed dragonflies capture mosquitoes in the air, scooping them in with basket-shaped legs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She hoisted herself and reversed her torso and came down again with her legs spread. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stretching his long legs out in front of him, Rishi folded his hands behind his head, a lock of shiny black hair flopping into his eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was born with a massive tumor in the middle of my face and two deformed legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In his youth, Cressen had walked briskly, but he was not far from his eightieth name day now, and his legs were frail and un-steady. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Childcare specialists were trained very carefully in the discipline methods: a quick smack across the hands for a bit of minor misbehavior; three sharper smacks on the bare legs for a second offense. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wives sit straight with their legs crossed, while husbands lean forward. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They make you feel small and confused and vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to get up, but his leg was shaking badly and did not want to support his weight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Molly is saying that during her hip-hop dance class, she wraps her legs and stomach in plastic wrap. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Annabeth spun as a massive dark shape hurtled down at her—a snarling, monstrous blob with spindly barbed legs and glinting eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was something moist about the darkness, about their bodies close together, and he imagined that she was Nnesinachi and that the taut legs encircling him were Nnesinachi’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He saw a rifle by a dead man, the man missing a leg and the leg nearby, bent and chewed at the knee, and the rifle clean and new and cold. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farhad held the creature in his calloused and dusty hands and pulled a roll of parchment from the tube tied around its leg. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The boy bled to death and then his leg floated away a few feet on the waves while Ishmael crouched behind the seawall. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Easy. The cat was scratching his neck and biting his legs.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The boy lifted the lid of a box in his arms, and the people around him shrieked and yelled as something inside poked out a long, hairy leg. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“A headstone for a friend of mine. Well, she’s not really my friend. Just someone I know. I think she helped make my leg better, you see.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I had gotten used to the fifty pounds of gear cumbersomely strapped to my back, torso, and legs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I no longer had a leg that got in the way. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Girl, I am so happy for you. You are going to have that running leg in no time!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The people didn’t have fingers and some of the arms were longer than the legs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It required a heroic effort—including a lot of painful pinches on the leg—to keep his eyes open and pay attention to Jackson’s long, droning lecture. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He unzips my jacket a few inches, and I press my hands to my legs to stop them from shaking. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I grab one of the legs of the telescope with my hand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It seems that they should either both be running legs or both be regular legs. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached the other building, my legs were quivering so violently, I had to grasp hold of the ledge to steady myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, I see a clearing between people’s legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind his innocent façade of a doctor without prestige there was hidden a terrorist who with his short-legged boots covered the scars that five years in the stocks had left on his legs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before he could reply, someone else said: “His leg’s still sitting poor.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he continued to watch, the newchild, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He shoves it as best he can under his seat, his long legs bent awkwardly, aware that he is perspiring. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Howling, barking, whimpering, he finally tried to crawl, but quit when one hind leg slipped through the crossties. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The team doctor, Weldon Butler, ran his fingers up and down the leg, feeling for broken bones. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On both screen doors the flies sat rubbing their legs together, waiting to get inside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Black hair covered his arms and legs and chest, even his back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I saw on TV once, a guy had to get his whole leg cut off just because he never treated a wound he got from a bike accident. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Its spasms sent her spinning across the parquet floor, leg jittering along behind her. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The surgeons who had amputated my leg were now working on the skin, bone, and cartilage they had removed. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A black woman had her leg shattered and a white man had his head injured in a fight at the Sears, Roebuck parking lot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

First there was a strange thwip sound as the robot’s right foot popped off her leg and sailed through the air. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So when do you get your permanent leg?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby shrank even farther, her head nearly touching her stubby little legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

From the front, that leg looked like a solid block of wood. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” I said, putting my eyes on my tablet, but his slap had sent my leg to jumping. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes later, his leg was stiff, the backside of his jeans damp from the grass, and the graveyard hadn’t revealed itself to be anything more than a graveyard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Pa said the bear was standing up on its hind legs, holding the pig in its paws just as though they were hands. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These doctors exaggerate. If families marrying each other was so bad, we’d all have six arms and no legs.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the mention of John’s name, I lean forward and instantly regret it as my leg explodes in pain. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But I tell you, you need a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Iofur was hampered now by that chainmail, because from a protection it had changed all at once into a hindrance: it was still fastened at the bottom, and trailed around his rear legs. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It kicked out its legs, turned its wings and alighted in the water, floating as lightly as a cork. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The drifts had climbed so high that they swallowed the man bodily ... but bowmen on the battlements claimed they glimpsed him sometime later, dragging a broken leg through the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered if anyone would think to confiscate my legs if I got up and tried to run. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Pain started in her foot and seared through her twisted leg. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our daddy hadn't arrived yet and she was shaking her leg nervously. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Spillane in Pump Lane off Carey’s Road has two crippled twin children with big blond heads, small bodies, and bits of legs that dangle over the edges of the chairs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The talons on their front legs were half a foot long and deadly looking. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I ran back into the kitchen and found the bags that fit the can, then held one open for Luke and told him to put his leg in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I hope that’s a good thing,” I say, and can feel my leg shaking. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The giant crumbled from the top down: his head, his chest, and finally, his legs collapsed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Standard height; large, rounded body; golden brown plumage; clean legs and feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then they grew legs, arms, and scowling faces. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The two leopards paced over—still licking their lips from Piper’s pot roast—and butted their heads affectionately against the god’s legs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the hyena dæmon, both her front legs gone, was half standing, half lying on the grass, with Ben, the terrier, in her foul jaws. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” he says, hitting me on the side of the leg. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

My legs ache by the time we reach the bridge, but then I see the Merciless Mart across the marshy river, abandoned and unlit, and I smile through the pain. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then she was just hanging, legs dangling helplessly down. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The water pulls at my legs with irresistible force. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Countless times on that long Santa Anita backstretch Seabiscuit’s legs reached out over the track, stretching to gather up the ground, pounding down into the dirt, then folding up under his belly. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked his quiet manner; she laughed at his freckles and bony legs. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The larger circle is virgins. The smaller circle is seventeen-year- old guys with one leg.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he looked very foolish now, with his body and arms so fat and his legs so thin. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers along the edges of her body, smoothing her legs and hips to make her thin and willowy like the imperial dancers on their tiptoes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Warm blood trickled down her leg but she took no notice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m dressed in sweats with the extra material of the right leg pinned up, and I’ve just demonstrated “fall safety” to a physical therapist I haven’t worked with before, when my mother appears. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Queenie struggles at the bottom of a ravine, a badger hanging from her leg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her pinned-up blonde bun had come undone in the back and her hair dangled like long spider legs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had two useless legs and two useless arms. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I have been concentrating on my legs,” Calliope tells me as she holds me in her familiar cold embrace above the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

That’s why his right leg ended at his knee ’stead of at his foot. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I did, without thought, among men, without caring that my legs, my arms, my thighs and back were on display, could be seen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paint a girl in a circus freak show with wide, stumpy legs and a face shaped like a perfect circle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The good news is he didn’t break his leg. It’s only a fracture. The vet says he should be back to running around like normal soon enough.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They’d been beautiful and eerie, and even now Pearl could see them exactly: her mother’s bright eye like a pearl peeking out between the legs of the starfish. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hooked her legs over the sharp edge of the metal above, and struggled upside down, scratching, biting, punching, spitting in passionate fury. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I popped my head out momentarily while my mom tapped my leg. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, keep in mind we have informed you of his behavior in the past ...” I started to ask Mom if she had any meds but she patted me on the leg. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys dash over, their arms and legs everywhere, tripping and knocking into one another as they go. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Tab meant the Em who sang to the wall while her legs shook. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then I rolled the whole, smooth egg over the patient’s arms and legs and neck and stomach and back and head, to soak up all the evil air. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my legs around Maud’s waist and pressed my face against her sunny yellow bust. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“The leg feels way too long,” I tell him. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The animal cried out—kicking its legs frantically as the people shouted, Hailli! The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This time, at least, Luke was more interested in Matthew’s leg cast than in harassing me, but it was hardly the birthday party of my dreams. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Hungry Joe had his leg wedged in the door and would not pull it out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She found him rubbing salve into the leg of a sheep that had caught itself in a thorny bush. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her legs, parted on the rough ticking. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she does, a small ball of black-and-white fur zips in from the bedroom and starts weaving between Fuchsia’s legs. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The oil and grime had been washed from his legs to reveal an area below his thigh where pieces of shrapnel were embedded in the flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Me: IT sits on my table, ITs leg smears my chalk drawing, blurring the roots into a mossy fog. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed no way of doing this ex- cept with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The hair stands up on my arms and legs as I run away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked toward her slowly because my legs were still stiff. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, actual goose bumps sprouting on my arms and legs as it sank in. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s your mouth that concerns me, not your legs. In fetters, you’re a slave. No one will listen to a word you say, not even those who speak the tongue of Westeros.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he never complained, not even when Dr. Cajazeira cut open his leg, without painkillers, and drained the abscesses. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I sat up on my bed and ran my fingers over the scars on my legs. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I went low and came up yanking at his left leg. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stand, but my legs gave way. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the maids screamed as he scampered between her legs and called out to the others. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her leg was red and swollen, so even her rocking on the back porch made her grit her teeth. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

On his hand rested the mutilated spider, but with its snipped-off legs restored. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her legs were cramping, begging to be moved. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jarveys raced around the Council’s chair legs, tearing at as many ankles as they could reach. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Race you!” she says, and sprints down the hall into the activity lounge, with me following, trying to keep up—how can I not, when my legs are so much longer? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Smoke from the engine drifted over the heads of the chattering crowd, while cats of every color wound here and there between their legs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I clomped toward the front of the room, the plaster cast on my leg banging on the wooden floor as I crawled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The old bear roared in frustration and waved at the empty air with his huge paws, then reared up on his hind legs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those present were Mr. Gitney, Dr. Trefusis — who sat against a wall, his chair tipped back on two legs — and Mr. Sharpe, who rose as I sat, ready to begin a lecture, I perceived. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He crossed his legs with some effort, and held his mug with both hands very close to his mouth, even when he wasn’t drinking. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My legs were bouncing up and down as I sat on the edge of the bench. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She was mostly obscured by the drapes, and one stockinged leg was supported by the knee of the other, which gave it its curious, slanting and levitated appearance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The first was small but powerful enough to break a person’s leg. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Under the water I kept my eyes shut and touched the sandy bottom with my hands and feet and felt a couple slimy seaweed limbs brush over my back and legs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before Frodo could stop him, he sat down, swung his legs over the brink, and twisted round, scrabbling with his toes for a foothold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Dr. Malone looked at Lyra’s desperate frown and clenched fists, at the bruises on her cheek and her leg, and said, “Dear me, child, calm down.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see them in the bull-neck, in the big shoulders, in the thick arms, in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Furlough crawled up the chair leg and then hopped onto the book. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

My legs are so different from each other—like strangers that will never really work well together. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her leg was ripped one way, and her arm twisted under her at the bottom of the steps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His legs were stiff and sore as he eased down off the bench. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her body weight is centered in first position, her legs and feet shift, slide, independent of her trunk. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop his legs from bouncing up and down. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas steeled himself, then jumped on top of Alby’s body, grabbing both legs and pinning them to the bed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“But, Papa, what about you? You’re not even well yet. Mama says you can barely walk on that leg.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It’s wet from something that spatters my leg below my shorts. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He found his legs were weak and his tongue gave him pain all the time. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stood facing the tumult, with legs apart, and answered them in the language of honour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing my leg around to straddle the horse. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With his part of the rope, he ran around Mr. Flux in the opposite direction, doubling the loops around his legs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with lit­tle in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because even though Coach had blown the whistle, I had blown my legs. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A vibration moved up my arm, into my chest, down my legs, making them tremble. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As the trikes closed in, the tyrannosaurus launched into the air, landing with his huge hind legs on the triceratops directly to Magdalys’s left. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The impact jolted up the length of her leg, making her wince. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

If I had been alone, I might have taken it off, or at least kicked my jeans off my legs to let my body breathe, but I knew better. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep moving, to use her shoulder to prop myself up, but my legs just weren’t working anymore. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All I can see of Axel are his skinny legs. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He lay there, his face covered with a stupid smile and red and green cake icing, until my dad ordered him dragged out by his legs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My legs so tired and sore I could hardly move. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We hold our schoolbooks up against our chests, our full cotton skirts brushing against our bare legs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I point and flex my foot, stretching and tensing through my entire leg as much as I can. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He watched her snap a red silk garter over the sheer lisle stocking she had pulled up over her shapely leg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed loudly, but I was crying internally and my legs and hands trembled. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He paused there, hands on the wet iron railing, looking out across the black water while his dæmon wound herself round his legs, pretending to pester for attention but really watching every movement behind them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They swung them like lassos and began to ensnare Typhon, throwing lines around the creature’s legs and arms, using the tide to keep circling, slowly tangling him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Beau’s head and front legs pulled up over the ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She’s moving her shoulders up and down crazy fast, her legs are kicking up and down, taking her down to the floor and back up with the beat. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the table could be slanted and the right legs up in the air.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But he might try and put his hand on my leg,” Thor whispered urgently. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She crossed her legs and started jiggling this one foot up and down. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"My leg. I can't stand on it. It must really be broken." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The design of my left leg had changed, and the metal poles and clump of metal for a foot had been traded in for fiberglass. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“If they come at you, bite ’em in the leg!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who this lithe young man was, and where his cane-stalk legs carried him from or to, could never be known. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took all Nathan’s nerve and many deep breaths to calm his instincts to squish the spider that was crawling up his leg. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She stood with her legs spread wide, her hands on her hips, and her miniature braids pulled back in a ponytail. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “Now, you lie down on that bed and rest. I don’t want to see you take another step on that leg for a week.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

War Admiral was kicking so hard that his hind legs were nearly thumping into his girth, but he couldn’t keep up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fist struggled to grab them, and Tendai pulled his leg out from under him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Deja's face was a grimace—I could almost see her fighting through the cramps, taking one for the team, leaving her legs out there. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

His hands trembling, he held his piece of tinder next to the chains on Death’s right leg. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was standing up, and one of his legs was resting on the wall of the box. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Minho groaned as he pulled himself up and crossed his legs under him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Leg out, leg down, leg out and down. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Bram stretches his legs forward and pushes his knee into mine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Leech the doctor comes from the Indo-European leg, which meant to collect, with numerous derivatives meaning to speak. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His armour, his skin and his dragon-scale legs were all the colour of charcoal. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He let himself go with the motion of the mule, swaying forward and backward with each stride, feeling the rise and fall of the mule’s breathing under his legs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nearing home, it becomes obvious that they’re following me, and when we’re all standing at an intersection, waiting for the legs to go green, I notice the voice of Daniel Rose. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Merry was trapped: another crack had closed about his waist; his legs lay outside, but the rest of him was inside a dark opening, the edges of which gripped like a pair of pincers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She inserts her chimp’s feet through the trousers of my legs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m still naked from the waist down as they hustle me out, but right before I reach the back door, Nurse Ramirez calls, “Wait!” and then gently closes the hospital gown around my legs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say anything more for a few minutes, and I hope Max is having leg cramps. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My father was propped up in his bed, his legs elevated and wrapped. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The kid with a squishy nose and strange legs isn’t that surprising when you’re three years old and you hear stories about talking bears sitting at a table eating porridge. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her legs dangle, and she clicks her little heels together. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The boy fell on the back of the dog, whose snarling jaws had pushed into the light between the boy’s legs. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see it right away: the marble end table collapsed on top of its spindly black legs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of being on a table the pigs were arranged on a long black container, and as I started to realize what it was the fingers propelling my legs tightened and moved me closer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ivan was a step behind her, and then abreast, and then ahead, long legs pushing him faster. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His stubby round legs poke out in front of him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They hooked their legs over other jockeys’ knees, ensuring that if their rivals moved forward, they’d be scraped off their saddles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of gray dust spiraled around her legs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He gestured down to Fezzik, who scissored the man in black between his legs, began the arm climb noiselessly. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dagmara nudged my leg, motioning me to look at the Italian team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That night I wished on a star that someday my scrawny legs would fill out into that lovely shape and that the hair on them would be as long and straight and black. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if he was “joshing me,” which is when grown-ups pull a kid’s leg. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“My leg is asleep, that’s all. It was a long car ride.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Their arms and legs are mere bones with fleshless fingers and toes attached to them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been held in prison once for three days for printing a picture in which Trujillo’s bare leg showed between the cuff of his pants and the top of his sock. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its low-slung body is covered with thick reddish-brown hair, as are its five legs, each of which ends in a clubfoot. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretched my numb legs and looked up anxiously at the sun. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On stiff and frozen legs, she followed the other students off the plane and into customs, trying to keep her eye on them as they were split into different lines. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then more splotches of blue on his hips and the insides of his legs—these ached dully—and a welt-bruise across his stomach. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Josef’s is of a voluptuous but not overweight woman, sitting on a stool with a sheet draped between her legs, her breasts exposed; her face is Pre-Raphaelite, brooding, consciously mysterious. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she aims at Day’s left leg and fires. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte snapped at the knight’s legs, but he kicked her in the face. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I give him a hug and a nuzzle, and it crosses my mind that after I get my leg, I could walk him over to Rosa’s. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

As he expected, Herrera posted with his leg and Luke spun around—two more points—and used his arm to drive Connor down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But he could see that Water Claire strode easily now along the path, her legs strong and equal, her feet sure in the soft leather sandals she wore. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Celaena swung her leg through the air, connecting with the dummy’s head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I shift my body again for no reason, pulling my legs into my chest and wrapping my arms around them. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I broke the kid’s leg in three places. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The boys around me giggled at the sight of the naked man being marched down the street, toward the throng of handcuffed men and women, his gnarled hands cupped between his bony legs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pinch myself on the leg hard enough to draw blood, and my eyes fill with tears. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My legs are more like putty than bone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I shift my weight from one leg to the other and back. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does, and I swing my legs over the edge of the bed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The bare white legs I saw while putting on her shoes and socks. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Its hind legs had been nailed to the ground, and it flopped frantically, trying to escape. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down and let her finger be grabbed, looked on as the baby squeaked, as she flexed her plump legs at the hips and kicked air. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Monday grinned, her face lighting up as she kicked her legs. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Father hung up his coat and dried his hands on his pant leg. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He clasped his hands behind his head, leaned back in the coffee shop booth and stretched his long legs under the opposite bench. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windy sits on Levi’s desk, her legs swinging back and forth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“On one leg is a spiraling black snake with a 666 in its open mouth, and a devil’s tail is twisting around his other leg.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But I’m going to get to the bottom of this. Someone must go and see. I’d go myself, but I’ve got no speed with this leg.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat there quietly, as Donatelli whispered in his ear and Dr. Corey and Bud knelt to massage his arms and legs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was short and stocky, with a heavy head of hair, thick eyebrows, and heavy arms and legs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the look of her long dark hair flying out behind her, her long legs in their black socks, and her flapping red jacket. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Curzon had grown terrible thin and was still feverish, but his leg had healed up, and he greeted me at the window every day. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

More legs to stand on, Captain Smith would say. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he realized he had the ends backwards—it was an octopus with seven of its legs chewed off in a fight with something Scooter hoped he would never meet up with himself. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I happened to glance aft at ship and oarsmen and caught sight of their arms and legs, dangling high overhead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to massage my arms and legs roughly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She swings her legs back and forth, and while they swing I could swear both her hands are on backward, as are her feet. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I played this strange jumble through two repeats, the sour notes staying with me all the way to the end. inti JUI LUl.li LLUb When I stood up, I discovered my legs were shaking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, she quickly forgot about her sickness when she saw Dorian Havilliard sitting at the table in her bedroom with crossed legs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

How I got over it: People started to realize that my legs didn’t actually have gadgets attached to them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He stabbed one man in the kidney when his back was turned, and grabbed another by the leg and upended him into the river. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She took a lurching step forward, propping her weight on her one front leg, and looked at Malcolm for a moment more before turning and loping clumsily back into the shadow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was so cold he felt the skin on his legs searing as though this were fire, not icy water. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stood with the loaf of bread in his hands, his legs wide apart, listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On his dark green surcoat, the bear of House Mormont stood on its hind legs, black and fierce. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fool was so excited, I thought he was going to mess around and break a leg before we even got to the party. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, dear. That doesn’t make any difference,” said the girl, crossing her legs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I could feel the sun doing damage to the back of my neck and to the backs of my legs. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stand in broken columns and flurry with both arms and both legs and they are not afraid to make a mess of themselves. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked at the gravel, letting the dust cover my legs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I ran down to the kraals as fast as my legs could carry me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out he had been shot twice in the leg. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He slumped down on her settee, which had curved wooden legs so thin it looked like it was wearing high heels. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She raised my right leg over my head in front of me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davis patented the helmet and leg electrodes, and always brought with him to executions a black satchel of secret equipment, which he would let nobody see. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black one had stitching round the top, the white none; she could feel which was which, make sure she got each sock on the right leg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her legs felt heavy, as though weights had been tethered to them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My gut was shaking and I was kind of having trouble swinging one leg past the other. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I walked across the room on rubbery legs and found Perilee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My leg is in need of attention, but I still can't look at it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The bathtub was raised off the floor by four stubby legs that ended at four feet with claws on them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl hurled herself fearlessly into the breeze, her arms and legs outstretched, a huge grin on her face. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He stood normally on the bad leg and dove into his feed bucket. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay gazing sleepily at the backs of Teddy’s legs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He reaches out to pat my leg, then seems to think better of it and rests his hand on his hip. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The heavy sword hanging from his shoulders by a length of cord thumped against him as he urged his legs forward: the breath rose ragged in his throat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He dropped his bow and picked up a sword from a fallen...well, he actually wasn’t sure what it was—some sort of reptilian lady warrior with snake trunks instead of legs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gerald, with large bandages on his head and his leg, and an oxygen mask on his face, grinned at her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her lap sat a fashion magazine she’d picked up at London’s Heathrow Airport, where they had caught their flight for the final leg of their journey. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Jinny reached up with one arm and tugged at Loo’s leg, so that he lost his balance and toppled over beside her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He sighed a lot, stretched his legs, cracked his knuckles. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He slipped his hand down onto the side of his leg. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for them to untangle their arms and legs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Rising to her feet, Pris said, “You know what I think, J. R.? I think it doesn’t need all those legs.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Head hanging, Harry saw that what had hold of him was marching on six immensely long, hairy legs, the front two clutching him tightly below a pair of shining black pincers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They hopped over his legs and chewed on his hair, chased his fingers, nibbled his toes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was an old-maid’s hand, or an old-fashioned boy's, sitting with his feet hooked round the legs of a stool arid his tongue out, writing carefully. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard going for me; my legs are not strong anymore. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood back and watched him work the blood into his arms and legs, flex his fingers, crane his neck this way and that, crying all the while. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her men shoved him to the floor, his legs went out from under him, and Tyrion fell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She swept off gracefully, leaving Tyrion to waddle after as best he could on legs half the length of hers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She saw my deformed legs and bent toes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He fell again and pushed his body along with his hind legs. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though Finn was tall, his arms and legs ropey with farm muscle, the Rudes were wider and stronger, and there were about four and a half too many of them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Gurgi, whose leg had shown no improvement, stirred restlessly and whimpered in his sleep. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Sticky, having recovered a bit of strength, came over to hold Reynie’s legs as he reached out and lifted the frightened girl through the window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I get up to stretch my legs and use the bathroom, and the old miner says, “Don’t wander from the station, you hear?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs were bull-tough and the yellow one, particularly, showed its wolf origins in the springy length of its legs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His hand tingled, though his dead leg felt nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Naomi looked down and saw what her mother had found between her legs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d also used Magic Markers to make colored blotches on my legs that I hoped would camouflage the holes in my pants. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ahhh. Closer come can we, closer come?” said the roach, delicately sweeping the space in front of it with a leg. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

DeNice was wearing her overalls today with a pink T-shirt, pink and yellow hair ribbons, and a pink bandanna tied around her leg. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My bladder was so full that I’d had to keep my legs crossed all the while I’d looked out the window. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The men were all of a height, with long legs and flat bellies, every muscle as sharply etched as if it had been chiseled out of stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He heard the dull thwang of the bowstring and felt a sharp hot pain in his leg. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The man’s legs began to shake, and his arms started to quiver, but still he held the salute. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No gods down there, m’lord. Only rats and water snakes. White things, thick as your leg. Sometimes they slither up the steps and bite you in your sleep.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think that if my mama hadn’t been so shocked at the condition of my legs, she might have been able to respond. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Joe was still working on the shackles on Mom’s legs that bound her to the chair, but he hadn’t even managed to pry away the first one. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The head of a snake emerges, and the creature winds itself through the legs of the bird, coiling up around it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When she had pushed herself completely upright, she drew her limbs inward, curling her arms around her legs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He paused in midair like a stop-action TV shot and turned, almost losing his balance, to face the questioner, who was sitting on the fence nearest the old Perkins place, dangling bare brown legs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He takes us to a house with a lawn, a fountain and three pink birds standing on one leg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I find my legs are working enough to get me down the stairs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My grandfather lay facedown in a bed of creeper, his legs sprawled out and one arm twisted beneath him as if he’d fallen from a great height. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They brushed his bandages often with a whiskbroom and scrubbed the plaster casts on his arms, legs, shoulders, chest and pelvis with soapy water. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was playing in a large high school auditorium that echoed with phlegmy coughs and the squeaky rubber knobs of chair legs sliding across freshly waxed wooden floors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was getting drowsy, but he pinched her leg playfully because he was glad she took things the way he wanted her to. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Other branches twisted around one another, always creaking, always groaning, until they formed two long arms and a second leg to set down beside the main trunk. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He stood with his legs apart and his arms on his hips, making himself quite large. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her thin legs swollen, her face surrounded by layers of rouged skin. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

See how she spreads her legs for this soft green land lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Monday I sat between Jay’s legs for hours as she braided my hair into fishbone cornrows that end in French braids. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It put its front legs on the zebra’s side, reached over and gathered a fold of skin in its jaws. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The littles were getting noisy with their lobsters, poking each other with claws and slurping meat out of the legs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Moving suddenly, the woman seized Pantalaimon, and holding his mouse body in a fierce grip, she touched the tip of a spur to his leg. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Doug dropped two fly balls, struck out twice, got hit in the chest by a line drive, and let five grounders go between his legs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her legs is so spindly, she look like she done growed em last week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His front wheel moved forward imperceptibly as he pushed on the pedals with his numb, exhausted legs. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

If only he could see the boy again, sit and talk with him . . . pain shot through his broken leg, beneath the filthy grey plaster of his cast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He just chewed sunflower seeds that he kept in a plastic cup between his legs and flicked the shells out through the window, which he left rolled down. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You should have seen them sitting in that meeting yesterday—” Jean Louise looked up at her uncle, who was balancing himself dangerously on the back legs of his chair. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then I sit down at the table, lifting my leg to let it rest on the chair next to me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By that time I was bruised all over from the cows banging into me, and my legs were bloody from the scratches I got from the acacia thorns. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are hollow casts of legs and feet standing around on the floor like elephant-foot umbrella stands; in one of them there’s an umbrella. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Michael needing help with his navigation again?” one of them asked kindly, offering her a leg up the ladder into the back of the plane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My shoulder and legs suddenly feel very exposed, and the flush on my cheeks now turns to magma-level red. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t make it to Moscow in one leg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He moved over to his desk, sat down, stretched out his wooden leg with a slight groan, and pulled out his hip flask. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We assured Kev that outhouses and kerosene would be just fine, sounded like fun, in fact—a little adventure, yessir—and then he led us downstairs for the final leg of our tour. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her little arms and legs flailed helplessly, but I couldn’t watch her anymore. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her arms and legs were dappled by sunlight and the shadows of leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When she stood on the ground at last she seemed much shorter and smaller and her legs felt for a minute like they would crumple up with her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We call him Hoppy because he has a short leg and hops when he walks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Its arms shifted about like the legs of the beetle blade, some with sharp picks that drove into the stone of the wall for support. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I began crying so hard I couldn’t move my legs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Look,” I say, “my legs look black. Your legs look black, >> too. “Go to sleep,” Dewey Dell says. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wiped my eyes, and then I saw blood running down my leg and onto my saddle shoe. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I roll onto my back, raise my arms and legs, and shake them. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He was wearing plaid pajama pants so huge, he could have fit his entire body down one leg. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was take a look at it and you knew there was only one way this thing—a hole in his leg—could go. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all huddled into one another, shoulders pressing against shoulders, Holly’s legs thrown over mine. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like one leg was shorter than the other. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The heavy brief case that he was carrying bumped against his knees at each step, sending a tingling sensation up and down the skin of his leg. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was floating on her back, her legs limp and broken. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Duke scooped up all the puppies, tucked three under each arm, and stood on his hind legs to ride the rickety raft like a surfboard on the crest of a thirty-foot wave. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His head thrust into the wind; his arms hugged his form; his mane and tail streamed back; and, without moving—such was Agulen’s skill—his legs beat the ground. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wedged my body down through the nearly solid sea of coils, forcing my legs deep into the cockpit and jackknifing my knees so that my upper body swung downward and inward. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four days later a second young black woman, named Rosa Jordan, was shot in both legs while riding the Boylston bus by a sniper whose bullets penetrated the vehicle. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I saw an arm swing, a leg kick. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many arms, pieces of tongues, and parts of legs had been left by various Milagro residents in the rear seats of their head-on collisions with cows and horses on the north-south highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leg holes are too tight—he is nine, afterall—and there’s that gross extra pouch in the front, which I don’t even want to think about. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was moving on four good legs, strong and swift, and he could feel the ground underfoot, the soft crackling of fallen leaves, thick roots and hard stones, the deep layers of humus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Still, frog legs sounded a bit exotic even to me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In his thinking spot today, Axel bends his legs the way he likes, and leans full over his A. P. Brown’s Collection of North American Birds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Under the nearest hydraulic lift, which was holding a ’98 Toyota Corolla, a pair of legs stuck out—the lower half of a huge man in grubby gray pants and shoes even bigger than Tyson’s. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two short, stubby legs poked out from the bottom, and the weird creature stomped indignantly out to the middle of the raft. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A young man sitting on a chair tilted to the wall pushed his hat back from his forehead and let the front legs of the chair hit the floor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand slips between my legs and slides over my crotch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As the numbness crept into the hand, or stole past the foot and up the leg, the flesh stiffened and grew cold and the victim’s skin took on a greyish hue, resembling stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The darkness was black, complete, and Ugwu imagined the spider’s hairy legs, its surprise to find not cold underground soil but warm human flesh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the legs collapsed and it fell backwards, revealing crossed lattice strips of hessian on its underside. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It involved him being tied with all of his limbs, like his arms and his legs, onto the frame of his bed with the rubber tubing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The close-up faded and the next scene showed only the girl’s legs running over the sparkling sands; they were followed by the legs of the man running in pursuit. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took hold of the sergeant’s legs and pulled him to the side of the road so he lay beside the hedge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Once it was all ready, I had to learn to walk on two artificial legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My leg slows me down, but I sense my pursuers are not as speedy as they were before the fire, either. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He lay on his belly with his chin on the wooden floor and watched the legs and the shoes under the tables, the legs moving across the floor; some moved slowly, some stumbled. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My new leg is not a pretty sight, but it doesn’t freak me out. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He kicks me hard in the leg, making it go numb, and grabs the front of my jacket to pull me toward him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They passed one person after another, crouched in the hallways or in doorways, their bodies red and puffy, some of their eyes swollen shut, while others clutched arms and legs, wailing in terror. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Four men, including the one in the janitor uniform and another with only one leg, performed the roles of soldiers and carried real spears. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to make it funny I told her that I had been hit in the leg and the wrist and now I was laying up getting fat. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain in his arms and legs seemed to have eased. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooter’s ear was getting wound up so tight that he started dancing on one leg trying to get some of the pressure off it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Twenty years in the future, those girls would still be young, would still be smiling or smoldering or simply looking stupid, with their legs wide open. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as I stood up to walk home and make my peace with the Colonel, I tried to imagine her in that chair, but I could not remember whether she crossed her legs. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the ambulance workers must pry a flattened hand or leg off the rails to move the migrant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The dog scampered to them and raised his leg one last time against the doorsill, saying, in his way, “I have been here.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pooh slides her Jordans off and throws her legs across the couch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Grandpop folded his arms and leaned back until the front legs of his chair rose up off the floor. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The kid was laughing and kicking his chubby white legs. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pry Aurora off my leg, but since we don’t have Hector with us that means she instantly wants to be picked up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

His belly grew so large that he felt terribly sick and could barely move his arms and legs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized a leg or two, various patches of hide, parts of a head, a great number of bones. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His young wife crept ,up timidly and covered his legs with a blanket. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Just like in the movies, the shark went for the leg first, the bloodiest candy. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rustling motion, legs working awkwardly beneath her and white heels flashing, her skirts held high. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could no longer use the string because it was wound around Rontu’s legs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a horse’s body where his legs should be, tiny little ladies that had wings big enough to carry them in the air, and a guy with a bull’s head. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I kept my jackknife open under my leg and he looked like he’d believed me when I told him it was made out of real silver, even though it probably wasn’t. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Arya's arms and legs were stiff when she finally wrig-gled out from under the briar into the dark of the wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shocked, he froze in place when he saw the large horned toad standing on its hind legs and holding a glowing quartz crystal. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His legs stuck out from beneath the table, and they looked like they could run down a train on the Long Island Rail Road. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her legs are very thin, probably because they’ve never been used. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mr Coombes stood back and took up a firm stance with his legs well apart. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t lower his left hand until his legs started to ache, and he didn’t move his other foot until he absolutely had to. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sheriff brought his leg down from the piling and with care repaired the tuck of his shirt. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Go in, go out—no stop. Now I see you leg. Maybe ’urt you, not long.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the squadron knew that Kid Sampson’s skinny legs had washed up on the wet sand to he there and rot like a purple twisted wishbone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Burnham shifted his leg, winced, and waited for more news. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The other kids took their shoes off before they squelched around in the mud, but I figured with my artificial legs, everything would be just fine. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He twisted his legs around and clambered down awkwardly from the chair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My legs were wobbly, and when I looked around, there were two of everything. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then it zipped right back up to the shore beside Jinny’s legs and gave a gentle nudge, bumped her shin softly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When they reached the top Robin fell in a heap onto the platform with every bit of strength gone from his legs and arms. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Wait,” Grandma said, putting her hand on my leg. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The snow was almost up to her knees, and she had to lift her legs up to move through it, first one then the other—like she was trying to walk through butter. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Five years later, Justin has a forest of his own growing on his legs and some fuzz on his upper lip. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She inserted a needle into the animals’ leg vein and drew the blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A leg of lamb would be pleasant," he said, from the heap of soiled straw in the comer of his cell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A half-grown tortoiseshell cat leaped from the bunkhouse porch, galloped on stiff legs across the road, whirled and galloped back again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last she could feel the hard stones of the Square beneath her feet, the fabric of her dress as it swung around her legs, the heat from the bonfire on her cheeks. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bounces her legs so hard that I can feel the vibrations three seats down. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His legs were sticking out from under the mailbox, and I was careful not to wake him. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not sorry. I’m glad. Her legs are too fat,” he said, and before they could catch him he ran away up the area steps and into the garden. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pat is mumbling at the gate, rubbing his leg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“A gang of what?” asked Harry, as Hermione threw herself down into a chair with her arms and legs crossed so tightly it seemed unlikely that she would unravel them for several years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless man screams and collapses, his hands clutching his leg, which gives Tobias the opportunity to shoot him in the head. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracked and she started crying again, covering her face with her hands as she sat down on the hard-packed earth, her legs crossed under her. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Seeing so many people, Sam’s legs shook and she sat down heavily on the toilet, overwhelmed—but her sister was thrilled, asking everyone’s name as they came in. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She sagged onto the sofa and tucked her legs up under her tatty pink bathrobe. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“She has poison ivy all over her arms and legs,” my mother informs me, holding open the back door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She stood on it still as a post: on one leg, then the other. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His gait was stiff, his legs difficult to lift. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was very hot and when I woke my legs itched. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He watched their naked bodies lifted by arm and leg, to be carried swinging to the pyres to join their fellows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Two men accompanied Cole on this final leg of his journey. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

By the time the other second legs got their batons, Mikey had taken the lead. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing my jersey backward over my legs so that my number three is upside down over my crotch, and the word renegades is upside down over my butt. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Each night in the bitterest winter we were forced to wash faces, arms, necks, legs and feet before going to bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy was rubbing its legs with his strong thick hands. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore green Army slacks with a black stripe down the leg, a green Army shirt, and in the cold before sunrise she put on a black military sweater. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bounced down his collar, rolled into his sleeves and pant legs, even into his socks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She drags that dead leg around like a useless burden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman crouched down, her wooden leg angled out awkwardly. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They all watched as a cop roughly ran his hands over Kaisha’s body, lingering far too long on her chest and on her legs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She rushes across the street, and it takes me a while to follow her, because my legs feel like tree trunks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She’s alone, sitting in her chair with her bare legs crossed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He had a crooked front tooth that reminded Mary Lou of a lady crossing her legs, and when he smiled, there was something slightly naughty in it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He lowered himself into the shell of the plane and pulled his legs up against his chest, trying to think. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I put on my cool, which wasn't much, but on this night, way more than normal, and strutted over to where the girl with the legs was standing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She pressed against his chest and belly, and he clenched himself tight until he felt the warmth and softness of her legs and belly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces, arms, and legs were covered with dark brown hair the color of rotting wood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The morphine wasn’t helping the leg at all. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I compose myself, I say, “Look. Get real—he wasn’t interested in me when I had two legs.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She flung a leg over the balustrade, and Sarai’s stomach dropped. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My legs begin to feel their strength, and I break into what I think is a run but must be more like the shuffle of an elderly woman. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Behind me I heard August shift on the cot, the legs squeak, then relax. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, his legs feeling like overcooked noodles, he reached the summit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Archer sat across from her, legs swung over the branches for balance as he sharpened his new knives. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy pulled up his pant leg to inspect his own tiny knee. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With his leg, Peeta is too slow to make it down the slope in time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

With two tugs on the strings he unties my hospital gown to expose my left leg, and then he draws lines into the back of my hip with something. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His legs had united into a single crude tail. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The rough edges scraped against my legs and belly. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen minutes later, our launch set forth on its final leg, leaving dock and bloody ground behind. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As I stand there feeling sorry for myself, Mango peeks out from his hiding place, looks around, then tentatively crawls out and winds himself around my legs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She unbuttoned his shirt, and all he was aware of was the heat of his own breathing and the warmth radiating from his belly, pulsing between his legs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ones holding my arms and legs let go. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

José Arcadio had come to think that he had run away, when he reappeared, panting a little because of his haste, dragging legs that enclosure and lack of mobility had made weak and heavy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We piled them up like they were logs, over two hundred, arms and legs sticking out. And we piled brush on top and poured coal oil on.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, he sat down on the bare earth, his legs stretched in front of him, and Ugwu wished he had not; there was something so undignified, so unmasterly about it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Spider said, grabbing the gummy bear with her front legs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She is moving in a slowly liquidy way as if her arms and legs were on long strings pulled by an invisible being. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

As I cling tightly to the scarecrow’s legs, I look down, and I am dizzied by vertigo. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My sleeping bag was wedged between my legs in a sweaty twist of polyester and anxiety. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder if doctors ever cut off somebody's arm or leg and afterward realize that they made a huge mistake. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I’d give anything now for a tiny piece of moon cake or a leg of roasted duck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It worked — the Disarming Spell made the spider drop him, but that meant that Harry fell twelve feet onto his already injured leg, which crumpled beneath him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even now it seemed to want to get back at him and finish the injection which was now working through the flesh of his leg. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jetted forward like an eel through water, bending his body around them and positioning his torso between them and the exit while his legs ran to catch up. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sat in a plastic chair, staring at a row of identical seats across from me, each with at least one rusty leg. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His partner was a bulldog of a man who moved as if his chest propelled him down the street instead of his legs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ishmael was aware of her legs and arms. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes were still feverish as he spoke and his fingers quivered like the legs of a dreaming dog; at that moment he wanted her more than he had ever wanted her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, leaned down, and shook hands, whereupon she came around me, tucked into a perfect heel against my left leg, and gently push-nudged me up the porch steps to the screen door. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I could see his hand on his left leg was clenched into a fist, tendons standing out under his pale skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Now,” Matty told the frog, “don’t be scared. I’m going to spread you out a bit and then carefully cut that dead leg away. It’s the best thing for you.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Black Dog stopped scratching his leg and slipped his hand into his boot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, when I drove to Gray Horse, I’d been startled by the sight of bison roaming through the prairie with their bowed heads and massive woolly bodies supported seemingly impossibly on narrow legs. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He retained his hold like a dog, and Bigwig, snarling, brought both his own back legs forward, sank his feet in Bartsia’s side and then, ignoring the pain in his shoulder, forced himself upward. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hare stood on his hind legs and twitched his nose at the king. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Creating an actual, edible dinner out of a sidewalk-hard, so-cold-it-burned-your-hand box of chicken legs or a potpie began to seem a little bit magical. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She even laughed when the fish swam by and tickled her bare legs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bernd twists his face away, panic in his eyes, and tries to examine his leg. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Babcock sent him out with a stern warning: His leg would not stand the rigors of riding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four hours and six bottles into the evening, August and Marlena dance to “Maybe It’s the Moon,” while I lounge in an upholstered chair with my right leg draped over its arm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

An aluminum Fish and Wildlife Service band ringed his leg. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Con asked, grunting as he lay down, trying to prop his leg up at a more comfortable angle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bunny stood next to me and tapped me on the leg. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hair under my arms and hair on my legs and hair around my—well—hair between my legs. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Kaz rolled them in a ball and threw them in the canal, then ran as fast as his weak legs would take him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My ankle was numb now; my leg was on fire to the hip. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on one thin leg like a stork and twisted the pink lace curtain into a pole, staring at Chacko with his mother’s eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he found what he wanted: a firm rock deep-anchored in the permafrost He backed against it, tensing his legs and choosing his moment. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I folded my legs and sat down in the garden outside Julia’s bedroom window. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the boat, the deck had been unsteady and her leg muscles had worked to keep her balanced. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first bite of the belt on Doha’s back turned his legs into jelly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he left his hand there, encircling her leg, and they looked at each other for a moment before he took it away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could feel himself trembling, and braced his legs against the sides of the narrow cut. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slid the jeans up her legs and, when they were over her hips, I raised the zipper and snapped the button for her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then someone had the bright idea of creating a whole-lower-body flipper that I’d pull up over my legs and wear like shorts. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

With his backpack on his back and Nunu in his arms in front like a papoose, he looked like an apple with legs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

His toes, hands, elbows, chest, legs, all ached. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We sink into the sofa and without making a big deal of it, El swings her legs over mine. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Somehow her silk had entangled Annabeth’s leg and dragged her over the side of the pit, with Percy in tow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He knows all about every leg of goose within a radius of fifteen miles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Todd was wide-eyed, bouncing his right leg up and down. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

My legs almost gave out, I was so relieved to see her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A warm liquid was seeping out between my legs. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a stone raccoon inside the chicken pen with a messy chicken leg in its paws. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost like his legs were sticks of dynamite, and the first run was just the fuse being lit, and now, the tiny fire had gotten to the blowup part. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The rebel with the semiautomatic machine gun, who had been standing against a tree smoking a cigarette, furiously walked toward the old man and pointed his gun between the old man’s legs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I saw the girl first, legs apart, gun drawn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As he emerged into the sun, he felt something in his legs give way. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she tried to knee him in the groin, he twisted away and forced her legs apart with his knees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I put aside six weeks for the first leg. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long journey for Kira, dragging her twisted leg. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head started swimming, my chest burning, and my legs got all gooey, like all the running was turning my bones to liquid or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then he starts twitching his arms and legs but still won’t wake up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was open, and Fay slipped in and sat on the ledge, a black silk kimono revealing lovely legs. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed an overturned chair by the legs and swung it toward the window. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My lungs are burning, and if I could cry I would, because my legs and arms are tired from all the kicking. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A welcome relief spread through my chest, out to each arm and leg, to the tips of my fingers, even under my dirty fingernails. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Walking across fields was like having one leg shorter than the other. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs swept out from under her and she fell on her face. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We were sitting side by side, with our legs swinging on the wall of the tower, and the Clouds™ were all turning pink in front of us. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand stung where the skin had been scraped, and there was blood trickling down her ripped pajama leg from her knee. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Billy wraps his arms around my leg as Mrs. Henkle pushes herself up from the couch. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Like, a whole crab with legs and pincher claws, all fried up, wedged between two pieces of white bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And for some crazy reason, I became absolutely certain that it had been Ali’s right leg—his twisted polio leg—that had finally betrayed him and stepped on that land mine. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Please sir. Please. Her leg is swelling. It’s hard for her to breathe. She’s barely conscious. Won’t you be kind enough to come take a look at her? Please?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Both his legs are gone because of diabetes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He walked over to Fred, pulled the letter out of his hands, and began attaching it to the leg of the nearest barn owl. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He shoved the board under the side of the air conditioner that was pinning Kaitlin’s legs down. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In my pocket, the Stygian ice dog whistle started to grow colder, freezing against the side of my leg. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The two older children had to struggle to keep up with him as he nimbly wove his way through all the legs and bodies. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I cross my legs and pull my skirt down, and when I open my eyes, I’m alone again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Maxine gently taps me on my leg and whispers, “Wrong fork. Use the one farthest from the plate and work your way in throughout dinner.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every wall on this floor is collapsed, so I can walk straight out to the building’s edge and ease my legs into the water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She wore a white sequined dress, and had a sullen face and lean, mannish legs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His legs were as hard and thin as ram’s legs and the skin around his calves was almost exactly the colour of mutton fat. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chocolate Frog!” he yelled angrily, standing on one leg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It felt like I was learning how to walk all over again, trying to keep my balance in this awkward position, while simultaneously trying to forget how much pain my legs were in. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He tried to push now, but his back legs could get no purchase in the pile of loose, yielding soil behind him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy they called Dirtyhands didn’t need a reason any more than he needed permission—to break a leg, sever an alliance, or change a man’s fortunes with the turn of a card. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was like the time she broke her leg and she kept saying, “I breaked my leg.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was uncomfortable and his legs were spraddled and his body was very sore. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sorry about that,” said Shelly as the other otters sniffed the robot’s legs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like having the gelding behind her, and with no warning she leapt forward, thrusting her weight onto her front legs, and with her hind legs kicked Bud full in the chest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Trying not to look at Kaitlin s pale face, Diana ripped several long strips of duct tape off the roll with her teeth and hung them from the leg of an overturned chair. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the early twentieth century, husbands and doctors had the right to have their wives and patients held in psychiatric wards for indefinite periods, sometimes confined by straitjackets and leg irons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He settled on Finn, scooping up the little boy in his arms so joyfully that Finn’s legs swung side to side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With trembling legs, Bigger rose, feeling in the grip of a nightmare. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

No recent photographs, no hospital records, no death certificate, just the accident report from the state highway police: Dr. Sidney Sikes suffered a crushed leg and Samuel W. Westing had severe facial injuries. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sinks to the floor and pulls me down with him, so he’s sitting with his back against the wall and I’m facing him, my legs trailing to the side on the dusty floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine that either of my sisters’ legs, backs, and rumps ached more than mine. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

That left two on the platter: a large crab with a faded orange color, and number eleven, which had the torn-off leg. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After commenting on the customer’s oddly proportioned figure—the oversized torso supported by the undersized legs—he added, “I’m afraid we haven’t anything that would fit without alteration.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

First I cut off his leg with one sword swipe, as Chen Luan-feng had chopped the leg off the thunder god. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wound himself in and about her legs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

María goes to one of the rowboats and lies down, stretching her legs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

My leg bones felt like metal heated up good and red. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs trembled violently, then gave out beneath her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I get into the suit, one wobbling leg at a time. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sea, horse with its fish tail was so beautiful, it made you forget that there were horses with four legs at all. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kick my legs, pull water back with my arms, and I’m swimming, like a dog, not caring about the things touching my legs, bumping into me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The gray-clothed man’s legs had speeded for a second, but he reined them down with his will and walked up the school pavement. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tried to get up, my arms and legs felt filled with sand. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stood and put one leg over, found a brick that stuck out an inch from the wall and tested his weight on it. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had scared Mimi, sending her running over to her brother to bury her head in his legs. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some stood, some sat and shivered their legs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs were all sinew, her breasts flat as two empty purses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We staggered from our boats with legs made of rubber. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His legs felt wet and he raised up on his hands and looked back down at them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wheels he borrowed were the kind for boys—with a bar between the legs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Milkman sat up, swung his legs over the side of the bed, and stood. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s pretty and tall, but not too tall, with long, restless legs and curvy hips, which I like on a girl. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I touched some iodine to my scraped leg. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hermione cried as Harry wrenched the book from Ron’s leg and retied it shut. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I lie back and put my legs up on the bed, and she nestles into her spot beneath my arm. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘I am so sleepy,’ he said, ‘that soon I shall fall down on the road. Are you going to sleep on your legs? It is nearly midnight.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, she took her leg off mine and kind of sat on my lap facing me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are anxious for brushes and paint tubes, mostly to give them something to do besides tremble against my legs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He pulled Red screaming and gagging toward the wagon, then tripped him with his bad leg. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment she was seated with one leg stretched straight in front of her and one behind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It ended some time later with him breaking down in tears on the floor, clutching at my leg and begging me to forgive him. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They found the bottom, and I pushed toward the island with all that my legs had left. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her lips are pale, and her arms and legs are jerking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘One time in the middle of a play-off game I had to splint a quarterback’s leg with nothing but tree branches and strapping tape.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Under the blanket, his legs bent in ways that made Jon sick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could feel its heat between my legs as he pressed and prodded me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine had gone completely stiff, and lay in Bronwyn’s hand with her eyes closed and legs sticking out rigidly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Almost as fast as Angie, who usually runs the lead leg because she always gives our team a good head start. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Jinny glanced around as best she could, at all the legs, the dirty bare feet of different sizes, hanging off the benches on either side of the table. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pain flashed white in front of his eyes and up through his leg. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He grabbed it roughly by its legs and it screamed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sat with her legs stretched out in front of her. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His legs ached with the effort of walking. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs pained him, as they often did; they hurt as though his old accident had happened five minutes before. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with finger and thumb, he lifted Sophie out of his ear and placed her on the window-ledge with her legs dangling just inside the room, but behind the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the child regained consciousness, she was lying on the kitchen floor under a heavy quilt, trying to connect the pain between her legs with the face of her mother looming over her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burl’s legs stuck out from under his truck in the driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Welts and bruises, some of them quite recent, covered her arms and legs. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Skraeling fell, grunting, as the bullet thudded into his leg. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His leg came up with a little swelling, so Smith backed off on the workouts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inigo stretched his right leg as far as it would go and managed to touch the handle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I twisted up to reach for my leg, and he was standing over me, smiling. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fireman directed a sharp kick at the dinosaur’s leg. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We all stretch out our legs: my long, skinny, dark brown ones next to Isabella’s tan ones, next to Julia’s much lighter ones. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But now...now the idea of a leg—any leg—seems better than crutching. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Chip scratched the three blotches on his leg. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The first policeman squatted and patted down Nathan's legs inside and out. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We sat with our legs over the edge of the roof, surveying our Khaki Kingdom one last time. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lupin helped him to his feet; Ron put his weight gingerly on the leg and didn’t wince. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After the third use of the aerosol new symptoms developed: fever, pains in the joints and general malaise, acute phlebitis in one leg. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If the head faced the right direction, the legs dangled over the table. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If I catch you out of the barn again, I’ll break your other legs!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then I swung my left leg in a big arc and planted it almost perpendicular to my right. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I press closer to him and wrap my leg around him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

How the leg got up by itself one day and walked on off. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then he says, “Tell them I can see my left leg. Because it’s right here by my face...” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

His legs were securely bound, but his arms were only tied about the wrists, and his hands were in front of him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the floor, with his back against the door of the room and his legs stretched out. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I like a girl with long legs,” one of them says, catching up to me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had twin urges to throw up and jet as far from Ohio as my legs would take me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Everybody was whooping and hollowing and I kicked my legs to get down but I couldn’t because Mama had a hold of me so tight it was hurting my arm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman replied that she was a transgender woman and that what she had between her legs was nobody’s business but hers and her boyfriend’s. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

My legs are churning and I’m moving past her and toward the center of the room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. I saw her myself last night. She bumped her head when she fell, but the car hit her leg. It didn’t touch her head at all.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Each time she reached the top of her arc beneath the sun, her shadow legs were transformed into the thin, curved legs of an antelope, with small rounded hooves at the bottom instead of feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scootched up, wincing a bit when he bent his stiff leg, and crawled to where the hatchet lay. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I tried to show him, but my leg gave out on me, sending me into the hay bales alongside the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The two men thrust the prisoner into the chair, and tied his hands behind his back and his legs together. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my fault my legs are shorter than yours,” she complained. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I fold over the towels to reveal his legs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She slipped a foot out of one of her square-heeled shoes, rubbed her toes on the back of her other leg. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was a real swimmer, understood everything about the movements of arms and legs and breathing, understood how a body functioned while it was in the water. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They whimpered, and ate, and licked his legs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She filled her bathtub, lowered herself into the warm water, and spread her legs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only, of course, the chain around his leg held him back, which was the reason he’d chained himself to the tree in the first place. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare down at the back of his legs as he carries me to his cart. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It has a tight bodice, a low neck, a full skirt; it brushes against my bare legs as I walk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, my legs felt like anchors by then, and those ships had come from beneath the sea—there was no telling how many more of them lurked below. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He turned from her and lay on his back again, stretching his legs wide apart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there with my leg tapping a tune on the floor of its own accord. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They also had one pair of blue jeans that they switched off on; some days Rufus wore them and some days Cody rolled the legs up and put them on. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he was lost in capturing images of carefree children playing on the jungle gym or pumping their legs on the swings. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The feeling suddenly surged back into Harry’s legs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When he opened the door, he reached over and brushed Lily’s leg lightly, like he did this sort of thing all the time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Seven hopped up from the sofa, but the moment she attempted to run toward Valley, her legs gave out and she fell to the floor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth gives me a little nudge with her leg. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Her arms unclenched from around her legs and fell into her lap. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Chiron knelt, carefully folding his front legs underneath him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bo watches me for a moment before yanking on the leg of my chair and pulling me closer to him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Metal desk legs screech against the floor, students bump into one another, backpacks fall with the thud of heavy textbooks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Nailer watched her slim legs and smooth form under her skirt. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pack raced across the flagstones barking, circling him, jumping up to lick his filthy face, nipping at his legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It holds my leg straight and keeps me from bumping the wound. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“My legs feel the burn of the run before my body even knows I’m moving!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My dear James,” said the Old-Green-Grasshopper, laying a front leg affectionately on James’s shoulder, “I don’t know what we'd do without you. You are so clever. Ladies and gentlemen—we are saved again!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Its leg had once been broken for marrow, and Thor had set it, but the goat had never been as strong again. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His long legs swung in giant strides; she trotted at his heels like a good little dog. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I gave them mints, money, and they’d eat ice cream with their legs open while I played with them. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is I, the Great Bentini,” Ben mimicked as he began to dribble the ball between his legs trying to shame his father into open court where he knew he could drive around him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numbers five and six were male and did embarrassing things to legs, any legs—male or female—that happened to be onstage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I see the red streaks starting to crawl up his leg. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

High leather boots with steel shinguards gave some protection to his legs, and discs of black iron were sewn into the fingers of his gloves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was Frank’s bad leg that woke him; it was paining him worse than ever in his old age. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Beneath my skirts they found the scars on the backs of my legs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Coach sat down on a bench, stretched his legs out. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

One managed to get hold of his leg, but only for an instant. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Its fur stood straight out from its body and its eyes were wide, while its tail was down and between its legs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

My legs and back ached, for I was unused to riding for hours. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Hazel remained awake for some time, licking Buckthorn’s leg, which was stiff and tender. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He awoke, jumped to the floor, and walked slowly between my legs and out the door. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only people would use it every day, he told us, Nigeria would not totter like a Big Man with the spindly legs of a child. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So early the next morning I put on my running leg, sneak downstairs, and find my wheelchair in the garage. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He might not be able to stand much longer on that leg. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was that scar on my leg that marked me and had marked a change in Gideon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Old Tallow’s legs stuck out like poles, tattered makazins flapped on her wagging feet as she drew impatiently upon her pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Every part of his posture suggests ease—one leg bent, the other straight, an arm slung across his knee, his head tilted to listen. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its front legs brushed its chest as it spoke. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We swung our legs through the railing he’d made out of saplings. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He simply unzipped it down the front, pulled it down over his legs and stepped out of it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Personally I have stolen an arm and a leg. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said that he used to blow spit bubbles and shiver his leg. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs, too, are unrecognizable—the enlarged knees, the calf muscles shorter and more angular than in her youth, her wounded feet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair’s particularly bloodthirsty tonight, snaking all around the room, swarming the furniture, vining up the legs of chairs, stretching over the walls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted her arms to be equally strong on both sides, as her legs now were. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A hand fumbled at her leg and she hacked at it, kicked at shins. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Only because your leg's hurt," I say generously, because really, you can tell that's only a small part of the problem. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Before I could, the student moved in and feinted an edge blow at Nick's legs. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I shall bind my leg at the calf and then I shall remove my boot and make a cross-shaped incision in the place where I was bitten, and I shall suck out the serpent's venom. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don't want to leave, but my legs keep walking. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A text from Pri warns me to keep my legs closed and my pants up. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her legs were numb, and the cold was creeping up her body. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Gavril cut my clothes from my body, pulling them away in fragments, a sleeve here, the leg there. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The peacock joined in, its tail sweeping the floor and cutting out the legs of an asura right next to it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had had no time to consider himself, but now he realized that he was weary, weary almost to exhaustion: his legs would not carry him as he wished. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As I squeeze in, I can hear Siraj pushing his feet through the leg holes. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

After which he got out and stretched his legs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brick was like an anchor against her leg. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He swung his leg at me, but pulled it back at the last second. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or when Claire was walking away, lifting her bike off its side, swinging her leg over, and leaving. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I darted between her legs into her room and Bruno followed me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My body’s eyes were closed and my arms and legs were slack like I was deep in sleep. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I speared my legs down into the water. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At this, there was a rattle in the bushes, and Werfel appeared—“Hold, you scoundrel du Burgh!”—hopping on one leg, trying to untangle his bedsheets from the bushes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

His eyes fixed on us— on the Object’s bare legs lying in my lap—while his face remained embalmed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Both his arms are wrapped around me, and his leg is stretched out across my bare thighs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We sat on the ledge of the roof for a long time, swinging our legs and surveying the khaki kingdom laid out before us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby sprinted on her stubby little legs along the dirt path outside, around the Cadillac, and up the hill leading to the cornfield. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The dead came to light lying on their sides with their legs drawn up and some lay on their stomachs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Diminutive height, black plumage with a distinctive windblown look, feathered legs and feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

His hair was sleep-mussed, and his legs dangled from the chair, kicking nervously at the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stood behind the others, hoping no one would notice my trembling legs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a loud crack, and Harry’s cloudy Patronus vanished along with the dementor; he sank into a chair, feeling as exhausted as if he’d just run a mile, and felt his legs shaking. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Hooper was lying face down, his legs stuck up over the bank. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At the long town wharf, a seagull stands on twig legs, facing the wind, shaking his feathers dry. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch my pants pocket from the outside and feel the ring there against my leg. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Had them leveling the dirt floor with boards when we went back to lessons, something I would’ve had to do with my leg trailing me like a tail. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

No, I cannot balance on one leg in a storm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He dropped Fadi like a hot potato and grabbed his leg. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The pain in my knees makes every step seem like my legs are on fire. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He struggled to get up and, as he did, Sullivan discovered that his wooden leg had gotten stuck between two boards and come off. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he slashed, Hazel had ducked between his legs and jabbed her Imperial gold blade into his gluteus maximus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was a sixteenth of a mile away from winning a race when the filly he was riding abruptly tripped over her own legs and plunged headfirst into the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives my leg a kick, and casting assistant girl says “whatever” and shows me to my place in line, two people ahead of the pretty girl with the flute. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Something furry scuttled across the square, dug its claws into his pants legs, and clambered up to his shoulder. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She showed me one woman’s lined face as she toiled in the fields, two kids attached to her legs, while her husband hung out at the tea shop with his friends. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then they had her by the legs and were dragging her out of the wagon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We each suck out the insides of an egg, eat a rabbit leg and some berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He let the paunch of his belly sag over his folded legs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Chills ran up my arms and legs at her predatory smile. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But finally my legs took to twitching and feeling that they were ’bout to bust out afire. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Er-umph!” said John, opening his mouth and putting the leg of the woolly lamb into it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“My name is Yossarian, sir. And I’m in the hospital with a wounded leg.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Small and slight and who knew how old, Crane-man still moved his upper body with the ease of a young man; many were the times that Tree-ear forgot completely about the useless leg. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Their legs moved a little jerkily, like well-made wooden dolls, and they carried pillars of black fear about them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, I choked, and this time I sprayed her leg. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I rearranged his legs, but still he would not stir. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They cracked my skull and broke four ribs and one leg. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the gash on his leg . . . what on earth can I do for that? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I typically stretch my legs across the backseat and work on a crossword, but this morning, I can feel the beat thrumming at the base of my spine, almost like it’s inside me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

His leg was throbbing, and he was in no mood for word games. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After a moment she reached for the woven napkin on the table, dipped it into her tea, and wiped his leg with the damp cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

We boarded the plane for the final leg of our journey, a short flight to northern New York. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not doing anything!” he protests, his leg firmly back on his side of the booth. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lancelot leaned on the withers of his horse, lifted his right leg over the crupper, and found himself on the ground. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two men gently held my legs steady. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut off two thin strips to make jesses, or leg straps, for Frightful. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m kicking out with my legs, trying to get a hold of something, but I can’t. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If your king eats frogs while standing on one leg.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mother didn’t want to tear the fragile tissue, so she cut the bag away slowly, carefully, until the leg was visible. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down in the chair by the computer desk, and rested the gun on his leg. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Motioning to Omakayas, she indicated Neewo, who was trembling now, his tiny arms and legs moving jerkily as the heat in his body increased, and increased, until he had not the strength to even cry. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Chestnutt hopped over and nuzzled Ayanna’s leg, and the pilot stooped over, picked her up, and buried her face in the bunny’s fur. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Its front legs rear up, then its back legs as it leaps, its tail a flash of white. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My red shoes are off, my legs tucked up underneath me on the chair, surrounded by a buttress of red skirt, true, but tucked nonetheless, as at a campfire, of earlier and more picnic days. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lita swung her legs off the edge of the bed and clutched the side table, looking queasy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sip from the tall glass of Coca-Cola, crossing my legs to show off my go-go boots, wishing we lived in such a nice house. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I came into the kitchen, May was sitting on the floor with her legs straight out and a box of graham crackers in her lap. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to feel my pocket, but the fetterlings still had my arms and legs pinned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Ow,” Viola says, stretching out her legs as she steps forward. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He sniffs, pulls his hand back, uncrosses his legs. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He goes to the door of the bus and calls to Sasha, who roams the sidewalk with a cell phone, charred legs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He stood up, his legs sturdy and brown. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down and realized that she, too, now had a lovely Neanderthal body - belly hair, loincloth, stubby legs and oversized feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Madge is slouched on the sofa, her healing leg in a cast propped on a pillow. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their legs are tied together at the ankles and knees so that they won’t kick wildly after the hangman springs the door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that as they pulled the vines or piled them up they got mightily scratched, all over their arms and chests and legs, but it was cooler. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body, his mind, his soul were all exhausted and he fell across Derek, asleep or unconscious, fell with his legs still in the water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She began to unwind it, and when it was impossible to pass her hand under his leg, she used scissors to cut the dressing away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She ran through the kitchen, ignoring Mama’s and Cook’s yelps of surprise and shouted censure, grabbed the saltshaker off the prep table, and climbed the stairs, her short legs pumping hard up the grand staircase. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He won’t look at me, he looks down at the floor, w here the cat is rubbing itself against his legs, mewing and mewing plaintively. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stiff legs gave way, and I fell to the muddy ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Jam slid her legs off the bed, taking the tablet with her over to her desk. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Tell me, how come you switched? 2ND JUROR: Well, it just seemed to me— 7TH JUROR: I mean, you haven’t got a leg to stand on. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had set a trap in the field, the metal kind that bites an animal until the animal is forced to chew off its own leg. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I keep locking my legs so the seat doesn’t shift, but I’m afraid I’m going to break through the bottom of the truck. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The legs of the chair thudded on the tiles and pounded in my ears. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going door-to-door, ma’am You know how you ladies love to talk. Bless your hearts, you’d all talk the hind leg off a mule.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just seen a man’s legs, one with a shoe on and one without, protruding from the thickest part of the bushes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I slide into the seat, I might as well be made of the same colors as the desk and the metal chair legs. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You kept your head down and you used those long legs of yours.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Bloke got stung by a jellyfish and his whole leg swelled up like a dirigible. They had to cut his leg clean off to save him.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“She does drag her leg, and she is slow,” Jamison pointed out needlessly. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie’s legs stuck out from under the Wrangler when I trudged home twenty minutes later, and country music filled the morning silence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even though I had showered that morning, I felt a tacky film slicking my arms and legs. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They thought you might lose your legs—” She stopped and wiped the tears from her face. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’d write it all down. I could make a fortune on a book like that. I can’t move my legs either.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sits in a chair, crosses one leg over the other, says, Let me introduce myself. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He leaned down, and pulled the left leg of his trousers up. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The rancher, Samuel Blackwood, seventy-five, shot him in the leg with a .357 Magnum. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Commander sits down and crosses his legs, watched by us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push open the door just as Tobias, who is sitting on the floor with one leg stretched out, hurls a butter knife at the opposite wall. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I squatted down to pet Lumpy, who wagged his tail so hard it smacked into Audrey’s legs. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

My legs trembled as I stood, and I listed dangerously. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled up the legs of my sweatpants as high as I could and stepped out into the cold and muddy flow. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sitting back on their haunches, they were a good six feet tall, and their legs, arms, whatever you called them, bulged with muscle under their gray fur. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because if Bo wasn't there, Prosper missed him like a lost arm or leg. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple blinked, hard, and tried to ignore the goose bumps that ravaged her arms and legs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Only the reinforced ribbing in her suit prevented Holly’s leg bones from shattering. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I watched her kneel on one leg at the end of the pew, and she nodded for me to do the same. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, tapping her leg with the pool cue. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A little girl, her left leg amputated below the knee, sat on a ratty mattress and watched, smiling and clapping along with the other children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sits across from me at the table, her arms crossed and one of her legs propped up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He streaked down the slant, crossed the draw, and had the tail-end pig caught by the hind leg before the others knew he was after them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet and hands were numb from the cold, and his legs were stiff from lying still so long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So, lacking the truly perfect response, she lifted her legs and spun around to the piano, where she proceeded to bang out “Heart and Soul” with her left hand and “Chopsticks” with her right. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was a family with no mother, a couple with no furniture, a man with no legs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had doubts about my decision, if I sometimes thought about turning back, running back to my parents and the Clinic and giving in, what stopped me was this private ecstasy between my legs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet he strutted about as if he were a giant, with his plump little legs spread wide and his plump little chest puffed out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It looked big, and it had four legs,” said Harry, struck by a sudden thought and lowering his voice. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He explained that they were terribly afraid for their feet, so that one must make a practice of lifting the legs and patting the hoofs and ankles to remove their terror. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ron was the only person Crabbe could see, it was Ron he started toward, but Harry stuck out his leg. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He even offered to draw chest and leg hairs on the Wild Boy of Bainbridge Island, but the whole permanent-ink thing was a deal breaker as far as I was concerned. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cholly wanted to strangle her, but instead he touched her leg with his foot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Triggering the bomb that blows off his legs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Augustus puffed out his cheeks, balanced on his leg, and twisted his hips, throwing the prosthetic forward. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I have not been starving for more than a decade just to give in to a Dauntless woman with a leg injury,” Evelyn says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I do believe it has had a snack out of my leg.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The dirt of the girls’ cotton dresses continued on their legs, feet, arms and faces to make them all of a piece. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This creature, man...this creature was a collection of rot on four legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Like a terrible sea, the spiders came for him in a rush, pinching and biting his legs and feet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Scipio wedged the bag with the money between his legs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three by three they came, ten rows, thirty soldiers, all moving in lockstep, their legs lifting high and stiff. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turns and walks away on long bare legs, her devil tail swishing back and forth. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course it’s me. Oh I do love you and Valentini will make you a fine leg. I’m glad I don’t have to watch it.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As Dewey approached them, he saw that another visitor was already there: a willowy girl with white-gloved hands, a smooth cap of dark-honey hair, and long, elegant legs. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished scrubbing and polishing the bike, I climbed on, stretched my legs to reach the pedals, and wobbled a few feet before falling over. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My legs ached, after the unaccustomed scramble over the rocks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in a hospital bed and my right leg hangs from a strap tied to the ceiling. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her legs grew stronger; her blisters burst and her hands grew callused; her soft thighs toughened, supple as leather. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mom bought a set of flippers anyway and modified them so they’d fit—and stay on—my legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He draws every leg, every bump, every little detail. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every wooden leg was broken, the upholstery ripped to shreds, hunks of stuffing strewn across the floor, along with the remains of the clock, flung from the wall and broken to almost unrecognizable bits. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping another stake aimed at the chupacabras, I leaned down and inspected Pita’s leg. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I shave my legs, not because there’s much to shave but because it makes me feel good. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her head jerked toward the sound of a chair leg screeching across the floor. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I smile to myself at the memory of sitting in a chair, swinging my legs and staring at the bandages on my knees while my father put temporary streaks of color into my hair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She could hardly move in the kitchen, large as it was, without tripping over the gangly legs of a man or having one of them bar her path to the fireplace with a poker. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a while the apartment began to stir— first Aunt Pearl, turning heavily in bed for the last few minutes of sleep, then the girls, drowsily untangling their arms and legs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muscles in her legs groaned with the effort; her lungs heaved; she woke with a jerk, gasping. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

King PeDinore’s hone stood patiently while the rope was wound round its legs, and Merlyn and the Wart had to catch the brachet and unwind it before the conversation could go on. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tipped slowly, still buoyed on the magnetic field of the east, west, and south anchors, but it had lost its balance, like a table with one leg cut away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A spasm of pain shoots up my injured leg. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He kicks hard, both legs splashing, churning through water. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The final swathe of my leg hair is uprooted in a painful jerk. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Circling Stella’s legs are long-ago scars from the chains she wore as a youth: her bracelets, she calls them. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

One of her legs emerged, unfolding gracefully, from the layer of suds. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed two fingers, and the dogs began to run around him in a perfect circle; a closed fist then directed them to rise to their hind legs and yip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

By then my legs had begun to shake from delayed shock! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I screamed at the largest male, who stood his ground on the outer perimeter of the awning, stomping his boundary on surprisingly muscular front legs like some kind of caricature of an old bulldog. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"Lady Tanda expects me to lunch with her. No doubt she will roastme a fatted calf. If it's near as fatted as her daughter, I'm like to rupture and die. And how is your leg?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the beast bends down to grab me, I run and make my escape between its legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew her figure now, the long slim legs, the small and narrow feet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some twisted awkwardly, others looking as if they were just resting, their legs bent for comfort. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a quick half step to the left, set my legs, and rammed into him with my shoulder. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I thought he was pulling my leg, but he moved the lever, and I heard a muffled roar kick on in the basement. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His hand roams up and down and I feel a jolt of shock as he probes the place between my legs, pushes at it with his fingers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After a while he rose on his hind legs and stretched his forepaws to their full extent against a tree, then methodically sharpened their claws on the bark. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s ache in her arms and ache in her legs and heart. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I went swimming over at Renee’s one time. They have a pool. Dr. Bauer came out and stood there, watching. Then he goes, ‘Your legs have perfect proportions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All the drivers wore puttees but Passini had only one leg. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wrapped his legs around me and kept his arms at his side; they must have gotten hurt when the man dangled him all morning. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t stare at her face or her breasts or her legs the way other men had. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing on your leg,” she says, looking from me to the covers, back to me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Your leg,” said Orr with a strange, mysterious laugh. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Though my heart was pounding and my legs were shaking, I held it before me as Bear had taught me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two dracaenae slithered in—snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sat on the sofa, stuck my legs out in front of me, and studied the scabs on my shins, the brown scars of countless wounds and scrapes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He fashioned it into a little doll with legs and arms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The leg was not broken, though badly tom, and swelling rapidly. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She swings her naked arms and legs all around. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The right half of his body, all the way down his leg and partway up his face, has been paralyzed ever since, so he has a twisted and slow way of speaking. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sergeant gave a grunting cry and fell clumsily, grasping his leg, trying to breathe, trying to call out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He also looked more human than a typical giant, without the dragonlike legs of his larger kin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You might as well help set a leg. Six months from now, you might be bossing the job.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand rattling against their legs and racing away in the dark and the thunder cracking just offshore. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was lying on its side because its legs were tied together. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had legs, she had arms, she had a swan neck dangling uselessly behind her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Grandma says to Mam, Your brother Pat, bad leg an’ all, was selling papers all over Limerick by the time he was eight and that Frank of yours is big and ugly enough to work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew, as if I had always known, it was his “thing” on my leg. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crookshanks skidded to a halt, crouched low on his bandy legs, and started making furious swipes beneath it with his front paw. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Baptist John was the nickname of a tracker famed for being run over by a police car that was chasing him, breaking his leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the size of a plum, but it had legs and arms that looked black against the white of her mother’s hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat apart from the rest of the cult of suicides, his legs crooked impossibly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But Roosevelt’s leg hadn’t been bothering him lately. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When I got outside, I felt pains in my crotch, I had held my legs together so tight trying to make that woman understand. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her run next to me, flinching at the aches in her legs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“See the scar?” he said with pride, pulling up his left pant leg. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Beto stared down to see urine running down his leg and pooling in his shoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Yew got on her and sort of jiggled there and she gasped like a Chinese burn and wrapped her legs round him, froggily. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But will I just wake up one morning and find that rope between my legs? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Head, then shoulder, one leg, then twist, then the other leg—done. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t talk about what happened, how he lost his legs and maybe his eyes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He must have made quite a sight as he struggled to his knees, only to feel his right leg spasm, sending him sprawling once more. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t have a arm nor leg nowhere on it! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His legs collapsed, his mind went blank, and he fell to the ground, unconscious. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much bigger than Henrietta, but it was black, with a little red comb, and its legs and feet were covered in feathers all the way to the ground, like big stompy boots. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But it’s very strange to look down and see a pipe leg and a fake foot attached to me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

His legs would not well hold him up anymore, and he struggled as best he could to the light. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since the televised newscast I’ve been trying not to check, but now I can’t help but see that the leg is completely colored in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At first it was slack, but it soon became stiff, with rigid arms and legs splayed outward. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The snow was deep, and before long my legs to the knees were prickling and numb. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m trying not to fidget because every time I shift in my seat the torn vinyl scratches the backs of my legs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ross Wilcox went for my legs, Gary Drake toppled me, and Dawn Madden sat on my chest and pinned my shoulders down with her knees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boy from High- garden did something with his legs, and his horse pranced sideways, nimble as a dancer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mole hung his head, put his tail between his legs, and sat down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And he hated that, because the pants twisted up around his legs and made it next to impossible to even bend his knees and sleep on his side, which was the most comfortable way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The downtown buildings radiated heat like giant toasters in the midday July sun, making my dress stick to my legs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was resting its beautiful head against Harry’s injured leg, and thick, pearly tears were falling from its eyes onto the wound left by the spider. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She folded her legs beneath her, smiled, and sang, “That's what friends are for.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The demon walked upright, possessing three arms, three legs, and three tails. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed, completely mortified, as my aunt checked between my legs for any visible signs of trauma and permanent damage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was in the air a long moment, turning as she dropped, legs working hard. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

That way he doesn't have to wear his leg brace or carry his crutches, and besides, I like how it feels to have a really smart brain on my shoulders, helping me think. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Noticeable burn mark scars on his hands and legs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

June settled into her armchair, crossing her legs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Fear had clamped down on his brain and the scars on the back of his leg—the raised dots and dashes like Morse code on his skin—served as a reminder that dogs were dangerous. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Navigating the rocky terrain with a bad leg -well, you're naturally going to make some noise. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He raised one leg and immediately leaned to the left, his arms windmilling. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Where the table’s legs crossed like an X, there was a ring of brass balls, each walnut-sized. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The scrolled legs under the dining table were dust catchers, and so were the kinds of objects—doodads, my mother called them—other people kept on their mantelpieces. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later Constance’s tiny feet appeared, then the rest of her body, as Kate, hanging by her legs from a beam, lowered her carefully to the chair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled Tarp's leg chain from my pocket and slipped it over my knuckles. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After what felt like hours, my legs were coated with yellow and brown slime and my back was slick with sweat. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Frantically Taran struggled to reach the girl’s side, before he was thrown down and his legs secured with thongs. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

His stretchy arms and legs rested limply on dislodged volumes. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Helena has been sitting on the floor beside the stove, legs crossed, feet tucked under her knees. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It had six legs, two long antennae on its head, and what seemed to be a pair of wings folded on its back. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah Ruth opened her eyes, and Bryce moved Edward’s china legs and china arms so it looked as if he were dancing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Between his legs hung a limp cocoon that seemed smoother, free of the wrinkles that crisscrossed the rest of his body like mosquito netting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her face and little legs were very black against the white. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the whole leg burned like wildfire when I so much as curled up a toe. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The joined cardboard feet hung down, pulling the paper legs in elastic folds, a construction of tissue, cardboard and glue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shaking my leg nervously, I sit in the waiting room, staring anxiously out the window at the snow. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

With a quick, sharp tug, Loo yanked at the leg...and pulled it right off. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon their heads and eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Axel leaps from the bed unable to keep his legs from moving. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dizzy and very tired Sam, and Frodo following him, crawled up the last step, and sat down rubbing their legs and knees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The plastic was cracked on the back of one leg, revealing a hollow space, but the arms and legs still turned. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was getting pretty fast on my dead old leg. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was already busy scraping at my legs with a sea-grape leaf. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The veins in my arms and legs rise. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Now I’ve finally managed to place my target’s physical location, but my phone’s a cracked, beat-up old thing, with an antique battery that’s on its last legs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he held up a small dirt-colored dog that kicked its back legs like it was trying to swim free of the boy’s arms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The flickering light cast a topaz glow over the narrow verandah, over the stubby gray hairs on Papa-Nnukwu s chest, over the loose, soil-colored skin on his legs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a leg shaker—you know, the bouncy kind that rattles entire rooms and makes you want to toss up your lunch? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

With a hasty scrub to the legs, I stepped out of the fountain and put on my sandals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Just bugs that kept us slapping our legs and arms. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The bottom of his trousers clung to his leg where water from the tap had splashed on it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reach up my hand and lightly tug at his pant leg. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, you have your legs on and operate the way the world intended, except when you stumble or your legs start aching fifteen minutes after you’ve put them on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I lift my legs higher, throwing my legs around his midriff. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But water had begun a slow swirl around our legs, and I was afraid it would suck us under and bash us into the trees. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers over my smooth legs, brushed my hands on my soft cheeks, feeling as brand-new as a freshly laid egg. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smacked them on my arms and legs until my skin stung. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That helped some, but it was a barbed-wire fence and so it kept ripping up my legs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, as soon as I revealed the B-pattern details, he knew I was not pulling his leg. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Because he got paid for his leg of the trip. That’s all he cared about.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our legs are now touching and he scoots closer too. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The roof of the car was getting hot, and Trip stretched his legs down the windshield, poking the wipers with the toe of his flip-flop. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hobbits now noticed that as he walked his knees hardly bent, but his legs opened in a great stride. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Vines tangled their legs and briars jabbed their arms. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As if settling in for a well-deserved rest, he folded his scaly legs and sat. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I started running again but it felt like my legs were gone. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to go, if I wouldn’t he’d pull me out by my legs. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour and a half today, I couldn’t move my leg. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of the sofa, with his legs spread wide. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a minute for my leg to settle in, and when it does, I feel lopsided. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The tobacco picker thumped around the attic for a week before a railroad agent took him on the next leg, boxing him up in a crate and shoving the thing through the front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We sit On the picnic table, Swinging our legs And looking for Something easy to do. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stephen Kellner, with his long legs and Teutonic jumping strength, was an excellent fire jumper. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In a final act of desperation, Anya flailed her arms and legs, hoping she would catch it in a vulnerable spot and shut it up for five seconds so she could regain her sanity. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We even stopped at Volksrust, a town along the way, and they allowed me to take a brief walk to stretch my legs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let the pant leg fall and look over my shoulder at the back of my thigh. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I tried to get up and felt I did not have any legs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At my first lesson, my legs dangled from the piano bench, too short to reach the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a triangle, with legs on it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The leg of the top remains in the same place, but the apex makes circles which get bigger and bigger toward the end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If Saruman had heard it, he would be a hundred miles away by now, even if he had had to run on his own legs,’ said Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She stretches her legs but she cannot touch the sandy bottom. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena didn’t move from where she had fallen into the chest, despite her throbbing spine and legs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I stood over the hole and spread my legs as far as I could. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She crosses her legs and sets her elbows upon them, resting her chin in her hands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

By poking the bull hook in and around her underarms and legs, he persuades her to make a tour of sorts around the hippodrome. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His legs had been mauled as if a pit bull had caught him from behind. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The baby hung on, kicked her legs again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She remembered him carrying her, holding her down as the healers stitched her leg... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the last leg back to Cange, I straggled up out of another ravine and as usual found Farmer waiting for me. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And she dips her leg up behind her as she turns away and flicks a wave at me—that counts as a kiss, I think. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were oak trees here, with enormous trunks, wrinkled and grey like the legs of elephants. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She did not want to spend her life with leeches covering her legs, she did not want her back to bend out of shape, and yet she never wanted to leave this house. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Zane waited until Marigold had both feet safely on the ground before he hoisted his leg over the edge of the basket, clinging tight to the rope. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Carl held her up with his strong hands clenching the muscles in her legs and leaned the side of his face against her breasts and took to licking them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I stand, he dives for my legs and clings to my knees. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Trey gives an evil laugh and throws his legs across the couch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The girl climbs into the swing and pendulums back and forth, pumping her legs, and watching her opens some valve in Werner’s soul. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But when a shark bites my legs off, promise to write a speech about how awesome I was.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She began biting at her leg to free it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She sits in a chair between a few of the bunks, her wounded leg stuck out in front of her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At last Sasha came in, wearing a gray hoodie and a black skirt, legs swaddled in white bandages. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He is not okay. He has a lump on his head, and something wrong with his legs.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Now the dog, lively and in good health despite a tail as crooked and useless as Kira’s leg, stayed constantly at Matt’s side. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I fell out of our sad tree. My leg really hurts.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I stretched my leg over and rubbed the toe of my shoe against her ankle. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

‘I am no weather-master,’ he said; ‘nor is aught that goes on two legs.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The recruits lifted Blakeley by the arms and legs and carried him rapidly to the Dempster-Dumpster which sat behind B barracks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s arms and legs were trembling so hard, it seemed likely he’d fall over before Jorge laid a hand on him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he walked faster, I walked faster, even though my feet were sore and frozen and my legs were so weak they wanted to quit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It plunged head and shoulders into the zebra’s guts, up to the knees of its front legs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun splashed in the door and hit my legs but didn’t warm the rest of me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He stiffened and clenched his arms and legs and his eyes rolled back. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs stop circling in the pool, the water still swirling around her calves, but she tells me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As they rounded the piles, the domovoi appeared as a cat, strolling by her leg without looking at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I screamed out in agony, the pain shooting up my leg was so excruciating. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I sit up straight and swing my legs over the side of the bed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By the only window was a handsome table with turned legs, but it was barely half as long as the one Mo had in his workshop at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My legs are long in proportion to my trunk and are said to be shapely. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her leg made a hollow, metallic sound, like I’d just hit a flagpole. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bull rose up on shivery legs, and staggered back to the bar, his eyes uncomprehending and dulled with alcohol. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Softly, he poked his legs from beneath the blanket, then waited. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most wretched waifs”—plop!—“in your circumstances would be sent away— Ouch!Percy, beloved, why are you kicking me? Have you mistaken me for a chair leg?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Some with hair as long as their legs, others with eyelashes as long as their fingers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The arm was crawling up his leg, rip-ping at wool and flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water, clean sharp strokes, not bent and wrinkled like a baby, not drowning under the sticky yellow light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A toddler ambled up on his chubby bowed legs, attempting to embrace my teacher with ketchup-smeared fingers, while a party of elementary-school students openly stared in wonder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He swung his legs up and over, and the last of the lizards hopped off. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Actually, they were sweatpants with the legs cut off at the knees. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus has trouble looking like a real baby because his arms and legs are too long and spindly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the track, Azucar began to uncurl his long legs and accelerate, grinding away at the lead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bullet had gone through the leg of my blue jeans, leaving two small round holes, and the sock underneath showed a narrow, straight tear through which blood was slowly oozing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sighing, she closed her catalog, dropped it on the rug, and swung her legs out of bed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Peeta starts up hampered by not only the leg but the knife in his hand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Alexander’s pants were on his legs, but inverted, with his feet stuck through the bottom ends of the trousers and the waistband encircling his ankles. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She would dutifully pump her legs, leaning forward and back, but mostly what she felt was the Earth’s pull on her body. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The goblin bowed his great domed head in acknowledgement, then flexed his short legs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He jumped from the chopper and his legs gave way under him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wart sat down under the tree, so as not to disturb the bird any further as it went to sleep, and Cully, standing on one leg, ignored his existence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about twenty feet tall—typical giant height—with a humanoid upper body, and scaly reptilian legs, like a bipedal dinosaur. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I slid down the flaming banister, holding tight with my blanketed elbows and legs, the wool clenched together with my teeth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Akira assessed it as if unsure—that is, was this old man pulling his leg? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And no legs,” one of the boys behind me said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The thick timber of the table’s leg was almost entirely eaten away, and I heard a light popping and crackling as the liquid pooling on the floor began to boil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a rush against me and I fell, hearing a single explosion, backward into a whirl of milling legs, overshoes, the trampled snow cold on my hands. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their legs and arms were now completely covered with dark hair. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mam comes for me and with my weak legs it takes us a long time to walk to the bus at Union Cross. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Stop pulling the Earthworm’s leg,” the Ladybug said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

"She made up her so-called wasting disease, I call that crazy. Nothing was wrong with her legs until the explosion in the Chinese restaurant." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went and sat down next to her, straightening my legs in the same way, and tapped the side of my sneaker against her foot. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My leg hopped like a frog struck by lightning. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had sacks tied around their legs with string and ground sheets with holes in the middle for rain capes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Being Chinese, he had thought the safest place to work would be in the Chinese restaurants scattered like toys in around the legs of the el on 125th Street. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the goat fur on his legs was frosted with gray. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And Vonetta moved closer to Ma Charles and rubbed the side of her leg. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"He also has arms and legs. Feet and hands. And in the same way you don't want him silenced, you also don't want him invisible, do you?" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The nun’s pug dæmon hid behind her legs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I swallow and cross my legs under me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Its legs moved feebly in the air, steam coming out of its ruined head in odd places. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The chief walks in a slow, casual stride, hands and legs moving precisely, deliberately. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me felt heart good that he defended me, but then the shame of my leg had sent him walking. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would run up and down the sidewalk and I’d go up and down the road on a skateboard, artificial legs off, propelling myself forward with my arms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“When they saw my leg at birth, it was thought I would not survive,” Crane-man had said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z