How To Use Wooden leg In A Sentence
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Well, not literally -- but I was gazing at a fat Zenith with wooden legs when he mimed "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on American Bandstand in 1980, then peculiarly told Dick Clark he played "a thousand" instruments.
Gregory Weinkauf: Happy Birthday to Prince!
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On the right side of the carpet opposite the turquoise walls, three massive blocks of unevenly cut Styrofoam were supported by spindly two-by-fours and a single turned wooden leg.
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I couldn't help but to notice a small, dirty tabby cat sitting attentively by a wooden leg of a jewellery stand.
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To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean yourself in a false way to your friends.
What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams
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You have had experience of the old - established Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers, when carved; of its little dishes of pastry -- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Dog cloner Joyce McKinney sought over burglary to fund horse's wooden leg (Thanks, Teresa!)
Boing Boing
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'Okay, so one pirate says to the other," Hey, matey, how'd you get that wooden leg?
OFF THE CHART
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Most reclining chairs were fitted with footrests, some were added when one wished to recline, others permanently attached and recessed in the chair rail, sometimes to be supported by wooden legs or metal braces when in use.
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So saying, he rolled, with a nautical gait, towards the door by which the domestic had re-entered the room, and having reached the stairfoot, and finding himself alone, he added, with a sudden snarl, 'I'd like to give three of ye a chance of earning a wooden leg anyhow -- coming into my house and guzzling my best beer the very minute my back's turned on ye.'
VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea
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There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden legs, each about twenty foot high.
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Wooden legs bristling in every direction from under his arms, he moved crabwise towards the side door.
DEATH IN FASHION
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Dog cloner Joyce McKinney sought over burglary to fund horse's wooden leg
Boing Boing
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There is Uncle Skoal, blond, handsome and scampish, who sported a wooden leg from a chain-saw accident.
Coming of Age at Lakeside
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She had a wooden leg and walked downstairs backwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The revelation gave a new frisson to such descriptions as that of Silas Wegg, stumping triumphantly over the mounds, his wooden leg puncturing the surface crust, leaving a trail of mephitic vapours behind him.
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There was especially a hoy who, after being compassionated in money for his misfortune, continued to fling his wooden leg into the air and wave it at our window by some masterly gymnastics; and there was another boy who kept lamenting that he had no mother, till, having duly feed and fed him, I suggested, “But you have a father?”
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Beyond the group of shirted enlisted men, I could see the wooden legs of a map tripod through the tent door.
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There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than me, and another with a wooden leg.
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The reporter is revealed to have a wooden leg, prompting Roger to launch into another of his weird family tales, this one about a peglegged uncle.
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