| 单词 | legless |
| 例句 | The broken pressure-ridges take queer shapes, overturned towers, legless giants, catapults. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A ragged, legless beggar sat by the gate. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I try to tell myself that I’m more than a legless girl, but that’s an effort too. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Baba told me stories of his travels to India and Russia, the people he had met, like the armless, legless couple in Bombay who’d been married forty-seven years and raised eleven children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He followed up with, "Now look at them. It's okay. That way the pathetic legless elephant can disappear, and we can get the hell on with it." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Then he goes back inside the house to deal with my pop, who has recently returned legless from the hospital, clutching my dead grandmother’s rosary beads. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When I hesitate, the man says, “Tell the old legless man where you are.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a score of those—men on crude crutches, men with empty sleeves and missing hands, men with one eye or half a face, a legless man carried between two friends. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were building a cook fire, and a legless man, who propelled himself on a little cart, was ferrying vegetables to a large stew pot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When we get up to leave, my legless pop yells from his wheelchair, “Make the few remaining Irish people in this town proud!” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't know what happens to people when this ride is working, but when it isn't, the passengers hang in the air at odd angles, harnessed into legless metal love seats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “All you did was beat a legless old man by two seconds.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z One photo, Laila remembered, showed a man in a long white coat handing a lollipop to a legless little boy. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “You may be small in size, but your legless little life is a great gift to our understanding of the scientific method. And also our ability to pass seventh grade.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They don’t care if people are dying in the bed.They don’t care if people are legless, lunatic or crawling on the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “And that legless old man can still beat the rest of you by a whole lot more than three seconds, so let’s get to work.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Four weeks in I was being called half a dozen names that weren’t Robert—cripple, spastic, legless, and the dreaded Toe Nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z "Oscar's defence," quipped Cleese, "will be that he was absolutely legless at the time." RIP Richard Briers, Hynes's new sitcom and Gervais and Cleese – oops 2013-02-19T16:02:37Z How long can a person engage with slightly haloed images of legless people on a grimy screen? Perspective | Inside the virtual fashion party scene, where supermodels may materialize and your clothes don’t matter 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Some are skinny and super snakelike, while others are chunks,with bulky, legless frames. These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Diners sit in front of a sign advertising frogs’ legs in a restaurant as a despondent legless amphibian rolls out of the kitchen. Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z In fact, there are easy-to-recognize differences between legless lizards and snakes. These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z “I used to watch her at parties and everybody else was getting legless while she was just observing everybody,” Cooper said. Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-Winning Author, Dies at 87 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Students heard stories of triumph over adversity, such as that of Spencer West, a legless man who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro on his hands. Stars shine at We Day, inspire students to change the world 2013-03-28T17:40:35Z Mark can be seen as a disabled hero, like a legless man who invents a better wheelchair, or a tragically flawed king, like Superman with a Kryptonite chip embedded in his brain. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z In one, a porcine businessman holds out a medal to a legless soldier dragging himself across a floor. World War I — The Quick. The Dead. The Artists. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Rose Siggins, the legless actress seen on the television series “American Horror Story,” died on Saturday in Denver. Rose Siggins, Actress on ‘American Horror Story,’ Dies at 43 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Her mama was an albino hunchback dwarf and her papa a legless, armless act billed as "Arty the Aqua Boy." Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Ph.D. candidates in informatics have worked on a computer program that allows this museum’s visitors to try to reconstruct Praxiteles’ statue of the Resting Satyr, now armless and legless. On College Campuses, a New Role for Students: Museum Curator 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z “So for legless lizards, being able to burrow underground faster is a desirable trait.” These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z He built a narrow, legless work table that was still big enough for several kid-size sewing machines and bar stools. Meet Penelope: A DIY’d trailer bringing craftiness to a street near you 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Against the backdrop of the boarded-up police station, a legless man rolled past. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z In the end a minicab is much like prohibition in Atlantic City: sober at the front and legless in the back. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z Of course, legless lizards didn’t just kick off their legs and slither away one day. These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z They’re called legless lizards, and they are more common than you might think. These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z There are hundreds of legless lizard species found around the world. These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z In Dallas, a legless veteran of past wars crawls on a sidewalk outside an American Legion convention. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It’s also not unheard of to find a legless lizard in a backyard. These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z He expresses more emotion about the efficiency of the new machine he will be driving than about the legless men on the roadside or the teenagers “carrying unloaded AKs” like some kind of school gear. A Road-Paving Job Takes On a Sinister Allure in Dave Eggers’s New Novel 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z "Boy meets girl, girl gets legless," he mocks. Readers recommend: songs about stupidity – results 2013-03-07T14:47:19Z Most legless lizards survive on a diet of insects and are harmless to humans. These lizards lost their legs, but don’t call them snakes 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Now it is directed by Harry Bicket, who leads it from a stack of keyboards — a legless harpsichord, resting atop a chamber organ. Music Review: Period Music, Played With Freewheeling Touches 2010-10-16T01:24:00Z “We got absolutely legless on red wine, cried, chain smoked, and talked about how much we loved each other and wanted the best for one another,” says Amelia. ‘We were sexually frustrated’: did it work out for people who texted an ex in lockdown? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Lotion tubes, squirt bottles, brushes, a honey bear, solo flip-flops, a Wiffle ball and a legless lawn flamingo now stained bone-white, all provide the canvas for Riley’s patterned mariner drawings in India ink. Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z When born, baby caecilians — legless amphibians that look like a mash-up of a snake and a worm — use their tiny hook-shaped teeth to scrape off their mother’s skin and feast. These Amphibians Have a Taste for Their Mom’s Skin 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Now scientists have finally straightened out how these legless escape artists use only a simple collection of muscles and neurons to seamlessly slither out of tight tangles. 50,000 Worms Tangled Up in a Ball Unravel in an Explosive Burst when a Predator Appears 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z I gave up television, books and a lot of sleep over the past few months to spend dozens of hours as an animated, floating, legless version of myself. This Is Life in the Metaverse 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z This hatchling might look like a snake, but the reddish reptile is actually a type of legless lizard. New at the zoo Residents of Iwaka village in Mimika district were shocked on Friday by the discovery of four sacks, each containing a headless and legless torso, in the village river. Indonesian troops accused of killing, mutilating 4 Papuans 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z At one point, she faces a tough decision about Lamar, a legless man who occupies an apartment where he helps neighborhood boys stay in school and control their lives. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z An example is the hipbone of a dolphin, or remnants of limbs in legless lizards. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z In a separate matter, the commissioners agreed to make the Temblor legless lizard a candidate for listing as an endangered species — a move that provided the sand-swimming reptile legal protection for at least one year. Wildlife commissioners deadlock on granting threatened species status to Joshua trees 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z He showed a demo where he, as a legless avatar on an island, commanded AI through speech to create a beach and then add clouds, trees and even a picnic blanket. Facebook's Meta unveils AI projects aimed at building the metaverse 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z At the time the asteroid slammed into Mexico, snakes were much like the ones we are familiar with today: legless with stretchy jaws for swallowing prey. Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs shaped fortunes of snakes 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It was there that Zuckerberg first appeared through his webcam before donning a headset and teleporting into a chair at the table as his own legless avatar. Inside Facebook’s metaverse for work 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z If this was never really an issue — if this story was, indeed, legless, then why didn’t Carroll say so as the media noise neared a crescendo? Seahawks’ Pete Carroll not entirely convincing when discussing Russell Wilson offseason drama 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Hello and welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of the Carabao Cup final between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, which will be played in front of 8,000 legless fa- sorry, legacy fans at Wembley. Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur: Carabao Cup final – live! 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z When Amielle Morris, a college student, ordered a new table, the tabletop arrived separately from the legs, which were stolen, leaving her with a legless table. 90,000 Packages Are Stolen in N.Y.C. Every Day. How One Building Fought Back. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z On land, many legless creatures live in dry, sandy areas, said Philip Bergmann, a professor of biology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and an author of the new paper. How Some Skinks Lost Their Legs and Then Evolved New Ones 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z When he saw a legless army veteran in Kabul using his hands to drive a retrofitted car, it inspired him to design a similar device. After Losing His Legs to a Bomb, Afghan Veteran Is on a New Journey 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The headless, legless pregnancy bump shows up in a majority of photographs that surface. The Headless, Legless Pregnancy Bump 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z From its clunky special effects to its steampunk-Western aesthetic to its TV source material to its employment of Kenneth Branagh as a legless Confederate general, almost nothing about Wild Wild West could be called influential. Gemini Man may be the future of blockbusters 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Police found the legless body of Jacobs on Monday after receiving a tip from the suspect’s current girlfriend. Remains of missing woman found in storage unit, ex charged 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z In November 1972, a legless panhandler named Eddie Bernstein rolled himself to The Washington Post to complain about a recent article in the paper that had painted him as rich. The DC panhandler who owned a Florida drag bar - The Washington Post 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z But where does a legless, barrel-shaped larva get its hops? Ballistic Maggots, Synthetic Winks and Why You're Not Goop: This Week's Best Science GIFs 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z At some point later that year, Jean-Michel Basquiat used marker and acrylics to dash off a sketch of two fiendish cops beating an armless, legless figure, rendered in black silhouette. Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The broad-shouldered, legless human figures are similar to examples in and around Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, Cole said. What remains of Bears Ears The observation flashed around the Street - “In the land of the legless the one-legged man is King.” Observer archive - Fleet Street at closing time, 6 March 1988 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Then there are the legless lizards, which were recently discovered in the windswept dunes. This LAX-adjacent ghost town is now ‘priceless coastal real estate’ for rare owls 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z “Whatever he’s done, forgive him,” a legless beggar on a wheeled sled says as he paws himself into the shade. “Philosophy of the Foot” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z If they were legless skinks, it might be hard to work up that kind of support. Hope for the Great Apes, and Maybe for Us 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, lizards and legless worm-looking creatures known as amphisbaenians, is the largest order of living land vertebrates on the planet. Scientists finally find the 240-million-year-old ‘mother of all lizards’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Kelly embraced the legless and disabled Colombian troops one by one. In Latin America, John Kelly trained for a job serving Trump 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The legless lizard remains one of the most poorly studied reptiles in California, so researchers were thrilled to find six elusive specimens this month. This LAX-adjacent ghost town is now ‘priceless coastal real estate’ for rare owls 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z To celebrate the legless reptiles, National Geographic is showing off a collection of Joel Sartore’s vivid snake photographs. Celebrate World Snake Day With 22 Spectacular Photographs 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z All of that — the poisonous gas, the mowing down of teenage boys in ashen fields, the legless legions of the Lost Generation — is behind us. All war is senseless, this new one especially so 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z For example, the breast-feeding, legless reptiles, caecilians, which are a snakelike amphibian, but smaller. Ignore tantrums, and other parenting lessons from wild animals 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z But she went legless and the men around her, probably Secret Service, had to help her into the car. Stephen King on Donald Trump: ‘How do such men rise? First as a joke’ 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z This is, however, a serious scientific overview of the phenomenon in fauna such as the legless, amphibious caecilians, as well as in us. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The hernia issues in 2015 turned him into a legless hitter. Robinson Cano had his finest season with the Mariners in 2016, can he do more in 2017? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Examples of animal cannibalism are as numerous as they are interesting, from spadefoot toad larvae who eat their own brood-mates to legless amphibians called caecilians whose hatchlings peel and consume their mothers’ skin. In Many Species, a Family Dinner Means Something Else 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z They sit on the floor of the nursery, toys strewn around them, legless with fatigue. Try catch throw : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z By the time they arrive, the males have developed gargantuan humps and beaked jaws, transforming the most gruesome among them into miniature legless triceratops. Snorkeling With Salmon on Vancouver Island: A Beginner’s Guide 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Akopova’s versatile, legless chairs—filled with 10 inches of foam and available in 92 textiles—connect at the seams with zippers to form sectional seating, like plush pieces in an officewide game of Tetris. Office Furniture You’ll Want in Your Home 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Rhodes just was bothered by seeing legless kids and unexploded cluster bombs in the jungle. The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Sure enough, the legless carcass of a Samick piano lay under a sofa in a towering pile of rubbish. There’s Art in That Trash, at Least in One Philadelphia Dump 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s a church in the second Dark Souls that serves as a comparative safehouse, watched over by a legless, wizened hag in tattered robes. What you need to know before playing Dark Souls III 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Cooper, who paid tribute to her "wonderful lucid prose", said: "I used to watch her at parties and everybody else was getting legless while she was just observing everybody. She never stopped watching and observing." Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author, dies age 87, Times announces - BBC News 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Female twisted wing parasites—which are eyeless and legless—live their whole lives inside their host, such as a bee or a wasp. Friends For Dinner: Why Some Animals Become Cannibals Every year venom from snakes kills nearly 200,000 people and leaves hundreds of thousands disfigured or disabled, making these legless squamates the second deadliest animal. Snakebite Antivenom Development Is Stuck in the 19th Century--What's Next? 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z This weird-looking critter is a caecilian, a legless amphibian that lives in Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and from southern Mexico to Argentina. 9 Animals You Didn’t Know Were Cute Until #CuteOff Happened 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Brothers, too: from strapping, sweat-shiny youths to Ephraim, a legless old man who clearly ignored the bit about being able-bodied and sits on his stumps, rolling rocks downhill to the terrace builders. Turning Ethiopia's desert green 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The researchers speculate that these legless burrowing beasts, in a taxonomic group called Amphisbaenia, in the were able to thrive while others died since they feast on dead and decaying matter. Worm Lizards Floated Their Way Around the World 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z I knew of two — a church watched over by a legless, shriveled woman in a red rag dress, and a clinic run by an unseen scientist with a penchant for sinister cackling. Bloodborne is a blood-soaked, bone-splintering masterpiece on PS4 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Caldwell said the characteristic snake skull design likely emerged before these reptiles acquired their elongated and legless body plan. Remarkable Fossils Push Back Snake Origins by 65 Million Years 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Caldwell said the four snakes' skull anatomy was similar to modern snakes and other fossil snakes. Caldwell said the characteristic snake skull design likely emerged before these reptiles acquired their elongated and legless body plan. Remarkable fossils push back snake origins by 65 million years 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Their discoveries explain a lot about legless mobility and the physics of granular surfaces. Move Over Rover: Snakebot Slithers Like a Sidewinder [Video] 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z But for a legless swimmer, there doesn’t seem to be any point. The Remarkable, Movable Whale Penis: It's Just Science, People 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The next showed the same girl seated in a legless chair, like a sled with a back. Using Cardboard to Bring Disabled Children Out of the Exile of Wrong Furniture 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z A legless sofa stood in front of the El Hasna shoe store where looters left only empty shoe boxes. Syria’s Historic Crusader Castle Damaged by War 2014-05-05T16:09:18Z Then, last September, it attempted to organise the controlled descent of a legless first stage. Reusable rockets: Up and down and up again 2014-04-16T14:55:18Z He calls this the Ab Fab effect, after the BBC comedy Absolutely Fabulous, in which daughter Saffron watches with disgust as her mum and her friends get legless. The rise of the young non-drinkers 2014-01-09T00:59:58Z He calls this the "Ab Fab" effect, after the BBC comedy Absolutely Fabulous, in which daughter Saffron watches with disgust as her mum and her friends get legless. The rise of the young non-drinkers 2014-01-09T00:59:58Z In his later years, he studied a group of poorly known, legless amphibians called caecilians. Taxonomy: The spy who loved frogs 2013-09-12T13:50:56.263Z These rare, legless amphibians—which look like a cross between a worm and a snake—spend most of their time underground, far from the prying eyes of scientists and other humans. Frog-Killing Chytrid Fungus Hits Rarely Seen, Wormlike Amphibians 2013-05-22T15:15:09.870Z Another type of amphibian, the legless, wormlike caecilian, has evolved a unique, and apparently quite effective, parenting technique that has only recently been observed. New Skin-Feeding Amphibian Found in French Guiana 2013-04-17T21:45:09.827Z Drive drunk, end up legless: cut to tearful teen in wheelchair. Move over Beckham: Oscar Pistorius should be the face of the Paralympics 2012-08-16T12:44:42Z They pour a bit of alcohol in you and then you're legless. Sex, drink and drugs: A teenager's life in care 2012-07-03T07:21:31Z In due time also this second Hermina, legless, and with pendulous, dislocated head, was taken away from Anne-Marie's fond arms, and a new stiff Hermina was produced, with clotted hair and angel smile renewed. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z One does worry that the use of the birds might also encourage violence against fortified legless pigs, but other than that, people are applauding this kind of forward thinking from the police department. South Korean Police Department Recruits Angry Birds 2012-02-23T18:51:47Z How a Lizard Lost Its Legs "Worm lizards," a group of mostly legless reptiles, have long puzzled zoologists. The Year in Pictures 2011-12-22T19:11:37Z These larvæ are thick, fleshy, legless grubs, and feed on the fatty tissues of their hosts, but do not attack the vital organs. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z As Tadpoles, in which form they first reach life, they have thick black legless bodies ending in tapering tails, and are provided with the fishlike anatomy necessary to an aquatic existence. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z It was the use of actual human oddities: the Siamese twins, the “pinhead,” the armless, legless man and a whole sideshow of nature’s misfits. Happy Halloween: TIME's 25 Scariest Horror Movies 2011-10-31T21:35:13Z “But we will have to pin a notice on those chairs so no one will use them,” ventured Betty, doubtfully, looking at the legless objects. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z They were a numerous company, some ornamented with weird horns and fringes and patterns, others long of legs or legless, swift of foot or curling up into minute balls of animate matter. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Flies24 quit the egg generally in the form of fat, fleshy, legless grubs. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z The second night, we see another small Children’s python, a few very small legless lizards — and, to my dismay, cane toads by the dozens. Remarkable Creatures: The Call of the Thylacine: Protect the Wild 2011-08-01T22:03:46Z Over her head swung the legless form of a rag doll, twirling in the wind. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z A limousine gleams quickly—with a cry A legless man fastened upon a board With casters 'neath it by a sudden shove Darts out of danger. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z The group also conducted genetic analysis to back up their imaging finds: monitor lizards—the group that includes Komodo dragons—rather than legless lizards are the closer cousins of today's snakes. New Fossil Severs Snakes from Legless Lizard Line 2011-05-18T19:45:00.353Z The larva is long, cylindrical, and legless; the chrysalis is motionless, and the perfect insect is too well known, at least, as regards its habits, to need any description. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z Two wingless geese flew up in the sky, As a legless hero ran hard by; While near him scampered two roasted hares, Hotly pursued by three dogs in pairs. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z Below car windows, legless beggars, crippled from polio, demand alms. In Burkina Faso, Leader Keeps Cool Under Fire 2011-05-10T02:20:29Z Hitherto we had known the outward woman as but a drab thing, hour-glass shaped, nearly legless, bunched here, constricted there, slow of movement, and given to deprecating lusty action of limb. Dream Days 2011-02-07T03:00:23.040Z But a curious group of long, legless lizards look suspiciously like snakes themselves. New Fossil Severs Snakes from Legless Lizard Line 2011-05-18T19:45:00.353Z Her legless son had been put to bed two hours before, asking himself, “Have they forgotten?” The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Go into the hospitals;—armless, legless men, wounds of every description. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The moment he placed his fingers on the strings they sang and played with such a wondrous voice that the very dumb wept for sympathy, and the very legless danced for joy. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z The widely reviled crest — a legless bison that most fans associated with an invertebrate or a disembodied toupee — that had adorned the front of the ’ uniforms since 2006 is out. Buffaslug Among Cartoonish Logos to Go Extinct 2010-10-06T01:20:00Z The campaign is composed of 150 legless, armless mannequins. Beating the odds so far in battle against ALS 2010-06-09T18:44:00Z The case was deposited in the middle of the room in which half a dozen headless and legless trunks mounted on a sort of cage were ranged along one wall, out of work and gloomy. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Again, the larv� of several genera have only fourteen legs, and some are absolutely legless. Butterflies and Moths (British) The good youth went into the hut, and saw that on the stove lay an armless, legless one, piteously groaning, and begging for meat and drink. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z "Asleep, I reckon," she said, busy with the pink sash of one of her legless ladies, the tinseled hat of which was pinned askew over a pair of eyes formed of green beads. The Cottage of Delight A Novel On the rear terrace the legless giant stirred at the call. Mask of Death The Basutos of South Africa ask: "What is wingless and legless, yet flies fast and cannot be imprisoned?" and answer, "The voice." The Handbook of Conundrums Clinging to her hairs they are carried to the nest, where they bore into the body of a bee or wasp larva, and after a moult become soft-skinned legless maggots. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" A few years more, however, and all of us cripples, one-armed and one-legged and those who are wholly armless and legless, will have passed away out of sight. Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles The articles consisted of the small, battered trunk, a legless, broken-springed cot, and a clock whose internal organs had been removed. The Girl in the Mirror They hurried about the unpleasant task of splitting open the once-human skulls to remove the legless parasite-entities that filled the bony hollows where brains belonged. Collectivum In shape of body these vases differ but little from the legless forms already given, excepting where the use of life forms has led to eccentric modifications. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 It bores through and enters the developing seed, where it undergoes a moult and becomes legless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Other lizards of a very different kind forming the family Amphisbæidæ are also legless, with the single exception of the genus Chirotes, which has a pair of anterior limbs, but no posterior ones. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 So he had the armless man and the legless man in the wagon brought to him, and said to them, “Do as you are able.” Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Not all of them have four legs, however, there being a strong tendency to develop legless species which then externally become so much like snakes that they are told apart with some difficulty. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Many of these legless soldiers with artificial limbs can walk so well that one would never imagine that they had been wounded. Birdseye Views of Far Lands Because you have known only legless men, you exaggerate the difficulty of walking. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Mendicants assail you on all sides, the legless dragging themselves on their hands, the halt running towards you with a crutch, the blind led by wife or child, the deaf and dumb, the idiotic. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia When full grown, it is a little more than one fourth of an inch in length, and is a soft, whitish, legless grub, with a scaly head. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. Universally legless, though some of the boas and pythons have distinct outer rudiments of hind limbs, they are not easily mistaken. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 I saw him wilt visibly, and for a moment I almost felt sorry for him, a pathetic legless figure propped up against the wall of the Dome at blaster-point. The Hunted Heroes General Test declared that he had seen a legless cripple walk when the saint's gaze was bent upon him. Modern Saints and Seers The chariot drawn by red mares, which a legless coachman is driving, is carrying about in broad daylight the master of the sun. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul Then he went on his face, creeping like a legless thing toward the door. The Snowshoe Trail Not without considerable exertion he rolled forward a couch—wide, high-backed, legless, mounted upon little wheels—to the vicinity of the fire. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance “Perhaps it’s a species of wingless, legless mountain duck, unknown to low countries?” The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp The chimney was immediately above us, and it was towards this goal, as I well knew, that the hapless and legless Bubbles was destined fruitlessly to aspire. Boycotted And Other Stories Delcamp wore a sleeveless jersey and a pair of almost legless shorts. The Galaxy Primes There was nothing left to do now, but to place the figure in a legless chair that had been nailed to two poles, and the procession was ready. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls The legless Yukon stove was set up after the fashion of the country—an old packing box, found at the cabin, being filled with gravel and the stove put on top of it. Where the Sun Swings North And was not that ancestor probably a wingless, though not a legless mammal? Evolution An Investigation and a Critique "Look here, Aggy Jones, do you mean to say that legless wonder has stuck you?" Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters For legless men, there are a dozen trades open, if they are trained. Golden Lads Once I observed one of the larger ones, about two feet long, pursuing a frog in our meadow, and it was wonderful to see how fast the legless, footless, wingless, finless hunter could run. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Shell borders outlined the throne and the courtier's seat, and the old legless chair was so draped with cheesecloth and green vines that it was a picture in itself. Marjorie at Seacote I swear it shot along quite flat, crawling, not undulating; but, ough! what a lightning, footless, legless crawl! The Way of the Wild Craphound popped the hatchback and threw his gear in, then opened the driver's side door, and I saw that his van had been fitted out for a legless driver, with brake and accelerator levers. Craphound As the larva is legless and headless its outer form is not affected by the discs and it is not surprising to learn that they appear early. The Life-Story of Insects Life history: This insect is a small brown or black beetle in its mature form and a small legless white grub in its winter stage. Studies of Trees The throne was a heap of sand, surmounted by a legless armchair, found in the Craigs' attic, and at court meetings draped with pink cheesecloth and garlands of flowers. Marjorie at Seacote The legless terror fell to the ground and streaked for its hole, and the following leopard only just managed to bound out of its way as it did so. The Way of the Wild Their bodies are grotesquely misshapen; their bills short; their feet seemingly legless; while the members at their sides are neither fin, wing, nor arm. The Piazza Tales The feeble legless grub, characteristic of the remaining families of the Hymenoptera, is provided for in a well-nigh endless variety of ways. The Life-Story of Insects Then down the hill, rolling straight towards Old Man Coyote, started the strange, headless, tailess, legless creature that had so frightened Reddy and Granny Fox. The Adventures of Prickly Porky Among the cows, the starlings were shot into tatters, so that they crawled wingless, legless, maimed, into holes in the stone fences to die. Norse Tales and Sketches If that legless creation of the devil could only have got his tail round something, our jackal might have been turned into food for his food, so to speak. The Way of the Wild Some, already on the verge of death, lay writhing and legless, fighting still. Oberheim (Voices) We have just seen that a caterpillar is the usual form of larva among the saw-flies, but in all other families of the Hymenoptera we find the legless grub. The Life-Story of Insects Under the legless chair, as it were, there are two supports, at the lower end of which and between these supports revolves a heavy, nearly round wheel, with four spokes. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm The legless man was not in the habit of waiting for things that he wanted, when the chance to take them had come. The Penalty That heap of splintered wardrobes and legless tables was once a furniture warehouse. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand My heart was so light and the air so rare, it was like flying through sunlit space on a legless horse. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration Among those saw-flies whose larvae feed throughout life in a concealed situation, we find an interesting transition between the caterpillar and the legless grub. The Life-Story of Insects Fancy a one-armed and legless hodman ascending the under side of a ladder to the roof, and reflect on the conveniences of gymnastic habits. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Her head, if anything, a little higher than ever, she walked swiftly forward right into the legless man's office. The Penalty I confess that I have a violent prejudice against all blind, one-eyed, deaf, dumb, legless, armless, hunchbacked, and such-like people. A Hero of Our Time On several occasions in England, cricket matches have been organized between armless and legless men. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Yet in a week or two this swift, alert, winged creature is developed from the degraded maggot, white, legless, headless, that buries itself in putrid flesh, 'feeding on corruption.' The Life-Story of Insects A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless. A Girl of the Limberlost The legless man wiped his mouth with the palm of his hand. The Penalty Then the most faithful of servants appeared again, 170 Straight at the feet of his master he fell, Pity has softened his heart to the legless one, Who can look after the Barin so well? Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? The old fortune-teller rocked to and fro in her chair, like those legless plaster figures that sway upon convex loaded bottoms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 In one corner a flight of stairs led to a gallery high up against the wall, over the rude railing of which looked the heads of a couple of legless statues. The Pagans And they lie legless or armless, perhaps with running sores, a smile on the face in answer to the sympathetic word, in long hospital rows…. The World Decision "That's all right, Bubbles," said the legless man after a pause. The Penalty This is the reverse of recapitulation: in the case of legless maggots, and caterpillars with pro-legs, the adult is more similar to the ancestor than the larva. Hormones and Heredity Should the enemy storm, what could a legless old sailor and a brace of boys do against them? The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea I don't like the way he tucks his one good leg under him in order to convey the impression that he is entirely legless. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago One met them hobbling down the Élysées under the shade of the chestnut trees, in the metro, at the cafés, the legless and armless, also the more horrible ones whose faces had been shot awry. The World Decision The legless man did not move an inch, change expression, or take his eyes from Wilmot's. The Penalty These latter they had encountered everywhere; their whines and cries, their armless, legless bodies, their hideous filth, and their insolent importunities, they had found a veritable pest. In and out of Three Normady Inns The thought of this young man spending himself for a legless sailor, and a wounded rifleman, his enemies, who half-an-hour before had stood between him and his life's success, touched him to the quick. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Because you have known only legless men, you exaggerate the difficulty of walking. The Deluge He remembered to have heard of legless men whose phantom members caused them many uncomfortable sensations. In the Quarter And in his soul the legless man was playing only for Barbara. The Penalty When Andrews struck a match he had to lean over the legless man to light his cigarette for him. Three Soldiers Then the Prince twisted off the bee's legs, and lo! the Jinn became legless also; and when the bee's head was torn off, the Jinn's life went out entirely. Tales of the Punjab It took the whole household to carry Philemon indoors, and as it was impossible, in the squire’s legless and horseless condition, to send for aid, Mrs. Meredith became the surgeon. Janice Meredith The legless beggar whined at them for alms. The Unspeakable Perk The transaction finished, Wilmot was for leaving, but being under obligation to the legless man was at pains not to be abrupt. The Penalty "Did you get it in the legs, too, Buddy?" asked the legless man, quietly. Three Soldiers From the pictures on the walls to the ancient helmet and cuirass that stood up like a legless sentinel in one corner, this room, like the others, breathed of extreme age. Flower of the North A Modern Romance The waiting-room seemed to have been transformed into a museum of misery: there were blind men, legless and armless men, paralysed men, their faces ravaged by fire and powder. The New Book of Martyrs "Just for curiosity, I think I'll drive across and look at the legless Demosthenes," said her companion. The Unspeakable Perk Why should a legless beggar be able to make loans of fifteen thousand dollars, and why should he be able to talk like a gentleman? The Penalty "Those are some puttees he had on, I'll tell you," said the legless man who was propped in a chair near the stove. Three Soldiers Some legless, degenerate forms were snakelike in shape. The Elements of Geology The first three have true legs, the next two are legless, then come two segments with prolegs, two legless segments and, lastly, a terminal segment with prolegs. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Quite unconscious of her approach, until she was close upon him, her objective chatted fluently with the legless one, until she spoke quietly, almost in his ear. The Unspeakable Perk If I don't know," said the legless man, "how Satan felt after the fall, nobody does. The Penalty The legless man turned brown eyes on Andrews with a smile. Three Soldiers It is a naked worm, smooth, legless and blind, of a creamy dead white, each segment a perfect ring, very much curved when at rest, but with the tendency to become almost straight when disturbed. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Thousands of lives wasted—thousands of armless and legless cripples sent back—for nothing. At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. The occupant put forth his head, saw the goggled freak descending to the legless freak, and sat back again. The Unspeakable Perk In that instant the legless man overreached himself and fell heavily. The Penalty It is a hairless, legless, sightless grub, easily confused, by inexperienced eyes, with those of various honey-gathering Hymenoptera. The Mason-Bees In the meantime the legless man, erect upon his feet, crowned Gringoire with his heavy iron bowl, and the blind man glared in his face with flaming eyes! Notre-Dame De Paris "So--so--so," said the legless one slowly, and he closed his eyes for a moment as if he was tired. The Penalty "The legless beggar seems to have collected quite an audience," she remarked idly. The Unspeakable Perk "I do all I can," said the legless man simply; "I can't find time for everything." The Penalty Neither in the least resembled the other, yet both resembled the legless beggar, who in turn resembled Satan after the fall--and Barbara was inclined to laugh. The Penalty In his experience the legless beggar had no manner of language different from that of the streets to which he belonged. The Penalty The taxicab and the legless man reached the curb in front of Barbara's studio at the same moment. The Penalty The legless one was rocking himself monotonously upon his stumps. The Unspeakable Perk The legless man knew perfectly well, but it suited him to make inquiries. The Penalty No," said the legless man; "you will tell him when he wakes that he gave you the order himself. The Penalty The legless man could not but flatter himself that his actions had been unobserved. The Penalty So a man, impaled, may smile, when agony has passed beyond the usual human passions--and even so the legless man smiled upward at the smiling bust of himself. The Penalty The legless man's eyes closed, and he smiled, and for perhaps a minute dozed. The Penalty Suppose the legless man were to ask favors of him before the money could be repaid? The Penalty "Remorse--remorse," said the legless man in a strong voice. The Penalty The legless man sank at once into deep and swift thought. The Penalty "Young man," said the legless man, "you must give me your legs." The Penalty Rose cowered from the cold malice in the legless man's voice, and from the unearthly subdued excitement in his eyes. The Penalty The legless man sat on the bare pavement, his back against the handsome area railing of No. 1 Fifth Avenue, and steadily revolved the mechanism of the organ with his hairy, powerful hand. The Penalty Quick as lightning he had drawn and levelled at the legless man an automatic pistol of the largest calibre. The Penalty The legless beggar appeared to consider the matter. The Penalty "Ah!" said the legless man at last, "if I were younger, and whole!" The Penalty In that instant the legless man overreached himself and fell heavily. The Penalty Perceiving the legless beggar, he stopped hurrying, sought in his pocket, and found a few pennies. The Penalty In that instant the legless man overreached himself and fell heavily. The Penalty For once the legless man had been deserted by the power of cool reasoning. The Penalty While she slowly gyrated, the legless man, looking up at her, spoke aloud. The Penalty Twice she had heard the legless man pass her door upon his crutches. The Penalty When Barbara at length told the legless man that he might rest, he appeared to think that she had invited him to converse. The Penalty "That I have done things which the world regards as terrible is true," returned the legless man imperturbably. The Penalty She gave the number of the house at which she was to dine, and the legless man repeated it to the driver. The Penalty The speed for which the fury of the legless man called was more than the stumps of his legs could furnish. The Penalty On his walks through the city the legless man carried a high head, and looked about him with the eye of a landlord. The Penalty She drew her cloak together, and joined the legless man on the sidewalk. The Penalty I should be drastic at first," said the legless man, "and kind later. The Penalty She removed the damp cloths from her work, and Harry found himself looking into the legless man's face. The Penalty Upon the seat of the chair in which he always posed, the legless man perceived an envelope addressed to himself. The Penalty "Yes," said the legless man briefly, but without going into any explanation of his ailment. The Penalty The legless man watched the taxicab until it had rounded the corner of Marrow Lane. The Penalty But the legless man did not appear to have heard her. The Penalty And then for half an hour there was no sound in the studio but the long-drawn breathing of the legless man. The Penalty It was the legless beggar who performed that last solemn rite. The Penalty And in his little peaked face there was much that was threatening to the ultimate welfare of the legless beggar. The Penalty For answer the legless man picked up a silver dollar from among the papers in front of him, and broke it savagely into four pieces. The Penalty Meanwhile the legless man had not taken his hard, calculating eyes off the girl who remained. The Penalty The legless man was astonished to learn that his heart was beating with unaccustomed force and rapidity. The Penalty The legless man steeled his face to express nothing. The Penalty And then, you fool," said the legless man, "you spoiled her game by high living. The Penalty But the legless man was not one who easily or often gave way to grief. The Penalty But with the lifting of the legless beggar's face to hers, all doubts vanished from her mind like smoke from a room when the windows and doors are opened. The Penalty Bubbles followed him to the head of the stairs and watched, not without admiration, the astounding ease of the legless one's rapid descent. The Penalty In almost the exact degree in which the legless beggar was repulsive to her sense of perfection the secret-service agent was attractive. The Penalty "Your innocents abroad," said the legless man, "wasn't a success." The Penalty She had left one day by the back stair without her hat; a little later the legless beggar had left by the front door. The Penalty "Fifteen down," said the legless man; "ten when the job's done, and a ticket to Chicago." The Penalty The legless man was very much at home in his own house. The Penalty But the legless man read what was in her mind. The Penalty And she felt a sudden friendliness for the legless beggar. The Penalty The door closed behind Wilmot with an ominous click, and he found himself face to face with the legless beggar. The Penalty She shook her head, but the legless man smiled, as he might have smiled if she had nodded it. The Penalty It fitted him to perfection, and the legless man smiled. The Penalty The unshaven man drew back from the expression of the legless man, in whose face it was as if all the fires of hell had suddenly burst into flame. The Penalty The legless man nodded, and peering into the cab recognized the handsome features of the sleeping doctor. The Penalty Again the curious smile flickered about the legless man's mouth. The Penalty One light, not strong, illuminated the legless man's face. The Penalty The legless man looked straight ahead of him into the dim room. The Penalty The legless man stroked his chin strongly with his thick fingers. The Penalty The idea of appealing to the heart of quite another girl through his music filled the legless man with a wild hoping. The Penalty He will answer for your safety," continued the legless man, "with his ears. The Penalty Wilmot laughed, though the legless man's words brought the ache into his heart. The Penalty They were aware of something pressing toward them, and turning with a common resentment against interruption, they found themselves looking down upon the legless man. The Penalty He had been watching her and Wilmot, and incidentally the legless man, for the last ten minutes. The Penalty An hour passed, two hours, and always the legless man kept his agate eyes upon the closet door. The Penalty At the name a tremor went through the legless man from head to stump. The Penalty The legless man dismissed the matter of the loan with a backward toss of his head. The Penalty And in his soul the legless man was playing only for Barbara. The Penalty To Wilmot a straw hat suggested the palm-groves of a South American republic rather than the streets of New York in midwinter, and he said so; but the legless man only smiled. The Penalty Then with a sort of wrench he turned once more to observe the actions of the legless man. The Penalty |
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