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It was one Mary Hickman, teacher, addressing spindle-shanked Jimmy Edwin Christman, aged nine.

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A rugged character, which showed even in childhood, made him, at 14, a spindle-shanked but determined assistant village tax collector.

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Washington wasn't quite sure what to make of the spindle-shanked blond.

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Washington wasn't quite sure what to make of the spindle-shanked blond.

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There's not a knave So spindle-shanked, so wry-faced, so infirm, Who looks at me, and smiles not on himself.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Moses, Montrose Jonas