white leg
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Stella is just now showing a white leg, and putting it into the slipper.
From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan
It was a bay with a white leg, and I knew that Cockeye used to ride such a horse, and that there wasn't a better in the colony.
From A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
“Not to-day,” said Max, giving involuntarily a rub of one white leg against the other.
From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by Fenn, George Manville
“Hang the scoundrels!” he cried; “anyone would think they had never seen an old man’s white leg before.”
From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by Schonberg, John
He caught sight of several inches of white leg above a pair of elastic-sided boots, out of which dangled black and orange tabs.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert
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