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Sentences ending with leg

Two doctors--one of whom was pale and trembling--were silently doing something to this man's other, gory leg. [2]
The walking powers were much impeded by the want of control over the right leg. [6]
Presently a great tremor as of pain shook all his limbs, and he set the candle on the ground, and with his stalwart hands arranged afresh the bandages about Pierre's injured arm and leg. [11]
The baker was too late, however, for the very next day the Notary was brought home with a nasty gunshot wound in his leg. [11]
The sorrows of three years were suddenly lifted from his shoulders, and for an instant Ephraim wanted to dance until he remembered the rheumatism and the Wilderness leg. [9]
So she extended the time once more, and he broke his other leg. [5]
Two years ago the prisoner came fearlessly up behind Richardson in the dark, and shot him in the leg. [5]
One of them struck Captain Scott's horse on the leg. [5]
For he was strong of arm, and there was no place in the hills to be climbed by venturesome man, which he could not climb with crutch and shrivelled leg. [11]
As he did so he felt something touch his leg. [11]

Short sentences using leg

We'll leg it together! [5]
Get her leg out! [2]
Was arm or leg broken? [11]
Where's your leg? [2]
Your leg? [2]

Sentences containing leg two or more times

Having unwound the string that tied the band on one leg, he carefully coiled it up and immediately set to work on the other leg, glancing up at Pierre. [2]
The horses they rode travelled so close that the leg of the Indian crowded the leg of the white man; and the wilder the storm grew, the closer still they rode. [11]
Leg, maybe--and yet how could he break his leg waltzing along such a road as this? [5]
In this way, having carefully removed the leg bands by deft circular motions of his arm following one another uninterruptedly, the man hung the leg bands up on some pegs fixed above his head. [2]
And there's Jim chained by one leg, with a ten-foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain. [5]

More example sentences with the word leg in them

Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. [5]
And what would you want to saw his leg off for, anyway? [5]
He had been wounded in the head and leg by bullets. [2]
And a leg would be better still. [5]
The leg was worn away almost to skin and bone, but the knee itself was swollen with inflammation. [11]
For any casual work connected with public functions Osterhaut was indispensable, and he would serve as a doctor's assistant and help cut off a leg, be the majordomo for a Sunday-school picnic, or arrange a soiree at a meeting-house with equal impartiality. [11]
Aristomachus had a wooden leg, but his step was so firm, even when compared with that of the light-footed Phanes, that it might have been thought to be his own limb. [10]
You see, from what we could make out her father was lame in the left leg and had a deep scar on his left forehead. [5]
The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped into the water. [2]
The wounded man was shown his amputated leg stained with clotted blood and with the boot still on. [2]
I knowed he was lame in his off hind leg because he had favored that foot and trod light on it, and his track showed it. [5]
Her greyhound was very ill, and it seemed that in the ill-treatment it had experienced, not only its leg had been broken, but that it had suffered some internal injury. [10]
After generously giving up its prey to the little wife brooding over the eggs, it stood on one leg and gazed thoughtfully down upon the city, whose shining red tiles gleamed spick and span from the green velvet carpet of the meadows. [10]
They lock themselves together and chew each other's jaws for a while; then they roll and tumble on the ground till one loses a horn or a leg and has to haul off for repairs. [5]
On growing used to the darkness Pierre saw that the man was taking off his leg bands, and the way he did it aroused Pierre's interest. [2]
Hain't we got to saw the leg of Jim's bed off, so as to get the chain loose? [5]
They had intended to issue the first number with the new year, and if it had been an affair of literature alone, it would have been very easy; but it was the art leg they limped on, as Fulkerson phrased it. [8]
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. [2]
But when trying to descend the rope-ladder from the high ship into the skiff in which sailors had rowed from the land, he made a misstep with his stiff leg and fell into the boat. [10]
In the afternoon there were many more sights to be viewed, but they were back in the hotel again by half-past four, because Ephraim's Wilderness leg had its limits of endurance. [9]
The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still harder from behind. [2]
The quiver of their leg as the foot was planted and the strain exhibited by their bodies showed what a tax upon their strength the load was. [5]
He soon discarded the wooden leg made for him by the doctor, because "it had no feeling in it. [5]
The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers to above the knee. [2]
Twice again did the Seigneur's weapon draw blood, once from the shoulder and once from the leg of his opponent, and the blood was flowing from each wound. [11]
Whoever dances in the morning will break a leg at night. [10]
He then surrounded the limb with the live coals or charcoal, which was replenished until the leg was literally burnt off. [5]
He sat facing the house, with his right leg crossed over his left and his right boot-sole tilted up at an angle, and his left hand and arm reposing on the arm of his chair--you note that position? [5]
There, lying upon the ground beside the horse, with its broken leg caught in a gopher's hole, was Louise. [11]
That same August the Emperor was thrown from his caleche, injured his leg, and remained three weeks at Peterhof, receiving Speranski every day and no one else. [2]
When Halliday found the duplicate ecstasy in the face of "Shadbelly" Billson (village nickname), he was sure some neighbour of Billson's had broken his leg, but inquiry showed that this had not happened. [5]
It's pretty near the day, and this isn't a bad world to kick in, so long as you kick with one leg on the ground, and--" The Governor hastily intervened upon the Sheriff's brutal remarks. [11]
He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick. [5]
As some of the balls struck the cask, the wounds in Reeder's leg were probably from these, glancing downwards, though they might have been caused by the second shot fired. [5]
At the time that Mrs. Eddy had unloaded that dismal gift on to her National Association, she had followed her inveterate custom: she had tied a string to its hind leg, and kept one end of it hitched to her belt. [5]
During the speech that followed, Balashev, who more than once lowered his eyes, involuntarily noticed the quivering of Napoleon's left leg which increased the more Napoleon raised his voice. [2]
Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him a slipper for his left foot. [2]
One other had swelled leg, or phlegmasia dolens, and one or two others did not recover as well as usual. [3]
His clothes had suffered in his fall, especially on the leg which had been caught under the horse. [6]
When a man steals cattle, they cut off his right hand and left leg and nail them up in the marketplace as a warning to everybody. [5]
It will be sport, some day, to put Bigot's valet to bed with a broken leg or a fit of spleen, and send Voban to shave him. [11]
Aristomachus too, in spite of his wooden leg, had performed miracles of bravery; but, notwithstanding all their efforts, neither he, nor any of his confederates in revenge, had succeeded in taking Psamtik prisoner. [10]
In the miserable, sobbing, enfeebled man whose leg had just been amputated, he recognized Anatole Kuragin. [2]
She had been so long inactive, tied by the leg, with wings clipped; now her mind roamed into pleasant places of the imagination where life had freedom, where she could renew the impulses of youth. [11]
Her husband has slipped on the ice and broken his leg. [5]
One was a singular "handiness" about doing anything and everything, from laying out a railroad or organizing a political party, down to sewing on buttons, shoeing a horse, or setting a broken leg, or a hen. [5]
But if it should come to fighting--no matter whether against the infidels or the heretics--in spite of Wawerl and his lame leg, he would take the field again. [10]
I improvised bandages, set the leg directly, and in a little while we got to the shore on a hastily constructed raft. [11]
She had the sense to shun the doctor; to lie down in some safe place, and patiently wait for her leg to heal. [4]
And I have seen nothing so sad as the look that came into another splintered customer's face when he found he couldn't collect on a wooden leg. [5]
He does not seem to have been very accomplished in the handling of agricultural implements either, for it is told in the family that his little son, Waldo, seeing him at work with a spade, cried out, "Take care, papa,--you will dig your leg. [6]
You have small-pox, scarlet fev', difthere; you get smash your head, you get break your leg, you fall down, you go to die. [11]
Here, then, he sat, one leg cocked carelessly over the other, his chin resting on the palm of his hand, his head turned a little on one side, and his ugly features twisted into a complacent grimace. [12]
It had been said of Dollier de Casson that once, attacked by two renegade Frenchmen, he had broken the leg of one and the back of the other, and had then picked them up and carried them for miles to shelter and nursing. [11]
A passenger was running through a gangway, between decks, one stormy night, when he caught his foot in the iron staple of a door that had been heedlessly left off a hatchway, and the bones of his leg broke at the ancle. [5]
Now, on looking round, he perceived, to his astonishment, that the grey-haired man with the wooden leg, whom he had already noticed, though without recognizing him, had hidden his face in his hands and was weeping. [10]
He sent them right off to the shantyman, Gugon, who has a broken leg. [11]
O.--"It was his right hand hind leg. [5]
When horse and rider reached the bottom, the former had a broken neck and the latter a broken leg. [5]
Evidently the friend remarks that a last year's grasshopper leg is a very noble acquisition, and inquires where he got it. [5]
Our frozen clothes rattled like tin, and we could scarce lift a leg. [11]
Seventeen years after publishing these stories I had occasion to write to Frederick Greenwood, and in my letter I said: "I can never forget that you gave me a leg up in my first struggle for recognition in the literary world. [11]
This year Luc Pomfrette had won it, and that very day it had been buckled round his leg with songs and toasts. [11]
One large, white, plump leg twitched rapidly all the time with a feverish tremor. [2]
Perhaps he'll take pity on me someday, when it comes to cutting off a leg or an arm for me. [2]
I had my pedometer on my leg. [5]
He made another pass and two of her fingers fell to the floor--another, and part of an ear came away--another, and a row of toes was mangled and dismembered--another, and the left leg, from the knee down, lay a fragmentary ruin! [5]
Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. [2]
One of the ostlers was limping about with a lame leg, and another had lost a mouthful of his coat, which came very near carrying a piece of his shoulder with it. [6]
If there was only one man with a wooden leg what a property he'd be! [12]
In their wanderings one brother fell and broke his leg, and the others were obliged to go on and leave him to die in the wilderness. [5]
Well, in putting on trousers a man always inserts the same old leg first--never the other one. [5]
He dragged himself on his hands and knee (for one leg was broken) to a station several miles away. [5]
Once she stumbled on a stranger with a game leg; and she was the most grateful thing in this world--but it was the wrong leg, and it was days and days before she could leave her bed. [5]
Was the breaking of Mr. Schuyler's leg, fifteen years ago, the "distressing accident" that plunged Mr. Bloke into unspeakable grief, and caused him to come up here at dead of night and stop our press to acquaint the world with the circumstance? [5]
There was clattering of hoofs on Koongat Bridge, and the password of the clan came back to the lad, even as a kris struck him in the leg and drew out again. [11]
Dot-and-go-One disencumbered himself of his timber leg and took his place, upon sound and healthy limbs, beside his fellow-rascal; then they roared out a rollicking ditty, and were reinforced by the whole crew, at the end of each stanza, in a rousing chorus. [5]
The line was of course slack, and the danger was that he would entangle it about me, and carry away a leg. [4]
Timokhin, who had not slept at all because of the pain in his leg, had long been watching all that was going on, carefully covering his bare body with the sheet as he huddled up on his bench. [2]
But I could not die before revenging myself on the men who had worked my ruin; and therefore, cutting the manacled foot from my leg, I escaped, and hid in the rushes on the banks of the Furotas. [10]
These things did not come properly within March's province--that had been clearly understood--and for a while Fulkerson tried to run the art leg himself. [8]
Picking himself up, Nick was at the man like a hurricane, seizing him swiftly by the leg. [9]
I says to myself, spos'n he can't fix that leg just in three shakes of a sheep's tail, as the saying is? [5]
Then I twisted my head over my shoulder as if I were noting the shape of my back and the set of my clothes in a mirror, and thrust a leg out in the manner of an exquisite. [11]
Then the chicken must pretend to be a pheasant and you, wife, will eat this leg. [10]
It has nothing much to do with the leg, but all the more with the inflamed scalp-wound. [10]
A friend of mine has caught his leg in a trap. [11]
The leg troubles me some on wet days, but not to amount to much. [9]
My brother brought me food and drink in secret; and after two months I was able to walk on the wooden leg you now see. [10]
These now trudged manfully forward, smoking their pipes with outrageous vigor, so as to raise the awful cloud that has been mentioned, but marching exceedingly slow, being short of leg, and of great rotundity in the belt. [4]
Timokhin, the red-nosed major of Prince Andrew's regiment, had joined him in Moscow and was being taken along with him, having been wounded in the leg at the battle of Borodino. [2]
But I could lick my leg, and that did some good. [5]
Got a cork leg, you know! [5]
Having disentangled his leg, he rose. [2]
True, her right leg was broken, and it had been necessary to amputate her left foot in order to save her life. [10]
Medallion threw a leg over the fence and came in a few steps to the door. [11]
Armour threw a leg over a corner of the table and waited. [11]
She has one leg much shorter than the other, and it is only with much pains that we have contrived that it should carry her. [10]
He threw his leg half jauntily over the end of the table and said: "No--no, thanks; I'd rather not sit. [11]
Poor dear Francois--which leg did he break, Mrs. [5]

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