Ill be forty-two next yeartoo old and thick-legged to plow uphill through snow that makes my hips ache. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The beetle stood full-square in the yellow centre of an ox-eye daisy eating its pollen, rays of white petals around him: Oedemera noblis, a thick-legged flower beetle of shiny metallic green with slightly parted elytra wing-cases and strangely thickened thighs on the rear pair of legs used in mating. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Short-haired, red-faced and thick-legged, MAFGT is butcher than Rosa Kleb on testosterone injections - and, for some reason, still goes by the title of Miss or Ms at the age of 47. ❋ Juliette (2009)
He is a bear of a man, well over six feet tall, thick-legged and heavy-chested. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Under his bulky coat she could make out the broad-shouldered, thick-legged build of a wrestler, and a crest of dark hair protruding from his shirt collar. ❋ Jennifer Weiner (2006)
The dusty thick-legged drab that turns the mill, and household-slaves and day-laborers, are strangely elevated and transported with mirth and joviality. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The remnants of these vanished birds in the form of subfossils ancient bones, not yet petrified and fossils suggest wide variation on the basic model: enormously tall moas of the genus Dinornis, smaller but thick-legged moas of the genus Pachyornis, medium-sized moas of the genus Bury apteryx, pygmy moas of the genus Anomalopteryx. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
He despised the whole race of them, — especially those thick-legged, romping, cherry-cheeked damsels, of whom, no doubt, his son would marry one. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A thick-legged table, littered with papers blackened by an ancient accumulation of dust as if they had been smoked, occupied the whole space between the two windows; on the walls hung ❋ Unknown (2003)
The blacksmith stood deep in conversation with someone who had in tow a thick-legged workhorse, and Fidelma could see a couple of people at the far end of the square just emerging around the corner of a storehouse. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Armstrong is the lead rider for the U.S. Postal Service Team, a $6 million, year-round enterprise that employs dozens of professionals, from thick-legged support riders and massage therapists to accountants and mechanics. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Haplo hustled the two up the ladder, cursing the slowness of the thick-legged dwarves. ❋ Hickman, Tracy (1993)
Upon the dais, as though suspended in air, rested a thick-legged clear glass table. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)
Each breath he drew burned like fire, and his legs felt like they must belong to a thick-legged, iron-shod dwarf. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1988)
Their baggage was borne by a long train of their two-humped camels, long-bodied and thick-legged, shaggy, built for endurance. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)
Four organ - isms the length of a man and the build of thick-legged caterpillars dwelt under greenish light. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1964)