Word: leggedly
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...attacks you, heu, you kick him in the jaw so. It is all called 'coup de pied.' But it is dangerous, very dangerous. While you kick, so, to the jaw, he may kick your other leg. Then down you go. No, I prefer fencing to 'la box,' for there you have the mask and you have the glove. Above all, there is the head...
...present standard of grading in Harvard College has a leg in the grave...
...Southern twilight enchanting her frequently photographed nostrils, Miss Collett had seen that putt obtain its velocity from the pendulum swing of Miss Frances Hadfield, travel in an unwavering line for 20 league-long feet, disappear, with a leisured imperiousness, into the hole, thus winning for Miss Hadfield a leg on the Belleair Heights golf championship (TIME, Mar. 16). As if the smell of that twilight, still lingering in the air, enraged her, Miss Collett, last week, swished around the St. Augustine course in 79, established a course record, won the woman's championship of the Florida East Coast, defeated...
...little peculiarities are readily pardoned; but there are times when the second pant is desirable, not to say indispensable, even for semi-formal wear. It adds so much to one's sense of security, especially among strangers, to know that one pant is secure and unshakable on the right leg, and that the other pant occupies an impregnable position on the left. Beau Leggs
...squid belch their inky exudation over the contest? Why else did Madden (Chairman of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee) and Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession (the profession which cost him a leg and sent him into politics), veteran in the political arena (as early as 1897, he made an unsuccessful attempt to gain a Senate seat from Illinois), he who, in 1921, was lifted into the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee over the seniority rule, because of his businesslike grasp of affairs, gathered...