Ha! you old spindle-legged monster, stand off from that tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference

He lifted a spindle-legged table in the air and went on talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

She bought spindle-legged furniture of gold and scattered it about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of the Wind] Reference

Yes, they had the bureau; they would probably take the spindle-legged stand next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Different Girls] Reference

By the bye, who was that spindle-legged, shoe-buckled parson feller we met by now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Little Ironies] Reference

There are filigree flowers, spindle-legged men, miniature berries and delicate boats.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Primadonnas': Kitsch as Political Commentary] Reference

A spindle-legged cherry table bore an old vase filled with pink and red straw flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

To avoid injuring him, no flimsy chairs or spindle-legged tables should be allowed in his nursery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study of Child Life] Reference

And that's the way with those lovely liquids and things on your pretty spindle-legged dressing table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference

Deep inside the thickets, female moose seek seclusion before giving birth to their spindle-legged calves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

The delicate silver instruments stood once more on the spindle-legged tables, puffing and whirring serenely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]

Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

In the center, a shiny mahogany bed stood, with a dresser of like material and fragile, spindle-legged chairs grouped around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

Can you see a spindle-legged, mischievous boy of ten, who loved his little sister dearly; but teased her from morning until night.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

I'm trying to figure out if the beings of wire and feather, spindle-legged and scarecrowed, are of the same ilk as Madam Terpsichore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Hughes Blogs in Her Sleep] Reference

Judith brought the pale green plates, and cups and saucers from the little china closet, and placed them upon the dainty, spindle-legged table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Polly At Play] Reference

Well, now -- Grandma, you know that's a hard thing to start out a boy in life with in a town of this size, especially a little spindle-legged one at that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Valley] Reference

Miss Warren rose politely from the spindle-legged sofa where she had been sitting, and touched one of the outstretched hands with rather extraordinary limpness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

Their octaves were few in number, and a pupil of Chopin would have regarded them with scorn; but upon these little spindle-legged affairs a duet could be performed.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference

There was another boy there, who, I could tell without hardly looking, was Dragonfly, on account of he is spindle-legged and has large eyes like a dragonfly's eyes are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shenanigans at Sugar Creek] Reference

In body, like the Pygmies, they are thin and spindle-legged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference

His huge bulk overflowed the spindle-legged chair on which he sat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roast Beef, Medium] Reference

Guess some of these spindle-legged city chaps wouldn't make much of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill] Reference

Beside the window and before a little spindle-legged writing-table a man sat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference

He gripped the back of the spindle-legged chair, and could find no word to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [From One Generation to Another] Reference

This is the Ogaden, a spindle-legged corner of Ethiopia that the urbane officials in Addis.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

There were also some exquisite and wonderfully carved oak, a Queen Anne sofa, and several spindle-legged chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light O' the Morning] Reference

"Then go on up," she said, and turned across the street following the spindle-legged man who was unhitching two horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert Fiddler] Reference

A runty little spindle-legged darky of thirteen, Lazarus had come to us second-hand, so to speak, from the county home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference

Ogaden, a spindle-legged corner of Ethiopia that the urbane officials in Addis Ababa, the capital, would rather outsiders never see.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Is China's economy really bigger than Japan's?] Reference

She could find everything else in the world -- old clocks, spindle-legged chairs, a high-backed, mahogany sofa, and a spinning wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Windy Hill] Reference

Jim had a lively hatred for furniture; they left him discussing with Allenby the question of removing a spindle-legged writing table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Jim] Reference

The room was neatly kept, but poorly furnished, with that old-fashioned spindle-legged furniture which seems peculiar to lodging-houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference

I noticed Vee sizin 'her up panicky, and I knew she was thinkin' of what might happen to them spindle-legged white chairs in the nursery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Torchy] Reference