1 I had stood on my father's legs.
2 "I may have learned to stand on my own legs," I retorted.
3 The next instant he had drawn up his legs and rolled clear.
4 I think you can now fire your father's legs back into the grave to him.
5 Nilson was standing at the wheel, and the Cockney's hurtling body struck his legs.
6 His body pitched out and down, but in some way he managed to save himself with his legs.
7 He braced his legs and feet, pressing the cabin floor with his toes in a clutching sort of way.
8 He was challenging my manhood with his slurs, challenging the very legs he claimed to be instrumental in getting for me.
9 He drew up his legs, and the man-eater seemed no more than barely to touch one foot, sinking back into the water with a splash.
10 Smallpox in 'Onolulu, two broken legs in Shanghai, pnuemonia in Unalaska, three busted ribs an' my insides all twisted in 'Frisco.'
11 They began to drop off, to be brushed off against the sharp edge of the scuttle, to be knocked off by the legs which were now kicking powerfully.
12 Old Mother Nature's going to get up on her hind legs and howl for all that's in her, and it'll keep us jumping, Hump, to pull through with half our boats.
13 Feet with which to clutch the ground, legs to stand on and to help withstand, while with arms and hands, teeth and nails, I struggle to kill and to be not killed.
14 The dying man beat a tattoo on the hatch with his heels, straightened out his legs, and stiffened in one great tense effort, and rolled his head from side to side.
15 Nay, the time came when I took joy in the run of the masthead and in the clinging on by my legs at that precarious height while I swept the sea with glasses in search of the boats.
16 Powerfully muscled though some of them were, there had been something wrong with all of them, an insufficient development here, an undue development there, a twist or a crook that destroyed symmetry, legs too short or too long, or too much sinew or bone exposed, or too little.
17 He was firmly planted on his legs; his feet struck the deck squarely and with surety; every movement of a muscle, from the heave of the shoulders to the tightening of the lips about the cigar, was decisive, and seemed to come out of a strength that was excessive and overwhelming.
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