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But to get hold of the neck of a python is one thing, to keep there quite a different, and very risky, affair; and our jackal, who was no pup, knew that. If that legless creation of the devil could only have got his tail round something, our jackal might have been turned into food for his food, so to speak. Wherefore, possibly, he was frightened.
Since she had but the vaguest recollection of history, and none whatever of economics, it was easy for the man to play the constructive statesman. Nor were his schemes always foolish and illogical, since the book of human nature had been always in his library, and of all its volumes had been most often read. "Ah!" said the legless man at last, "if I were younger, and whole!"
An orderly disorder prevailed, and a somewhat mournful dimness of closed, green-slatted shutters and half-drawn curtains. The furniture, costly in fact, but dwarfed, in some cases actually legless, was ranged against the squat, carven bookcases that lined the walls, leaving the middle of the room vacant save for a low, narrow camp-bed.
Have you anything definite in view?" "Not very," said Wilmot. "Nor any money to put it through with. About the loan you were so kind as to make me, I can only say that I am going to turn over a new leaf, and to work very hard at something or other. If I have any luck you shall be paid." The legless man dismissed the matter of the loan with a backward toss of his head.
And in his little peaked face there was much that was threatening to the ultimate welfare of the legless beggar. Barbara, ordinarily clear-minded and single-minded, drove uptown with her thoughts in a state of chaos.
The legless terror fell to the ground and streaked for its hole, and the following leopard only just managed to bound out of its way as it did so. Then, leaping light as thistle-down, coughing harshly, the leopard went up the tree after the male genet, and appeared to have cut him off from life and liberty for ever.
Headless, legless, and carefully plucked! Junker, Junker, that's suspicious." "It will do for the pan, and the name is of no consequence." "Yet, yet; true, nobody knows on what he fattens, but the Lord didn't create every animal for the human stomach." "That's just what I said. It's a short-billed snipe, a corvus, a real corvus." "Corvus!
Most of the Carboniferous amphibians were shaped like the salamander, with weak limbs adapted more for crawling than for carrying the body well above the ground. Some legless, degenerate forms were snakelike in shape. The earliest amphibians differ from those of to-day in a number of respects.
On the ground, a legless cripple was painfully dragging herself about in search of nobody knew what. Others, seated there in heaps, no longer stirred.
The other day I opened the door of the hospital and discovered a "convoy" consisting of three legless and two armless men, trying to help each other up the six low steps, and shouting with laughter at their efforts. And one of them saw the pity on my face, for he grinned. "Don't you worry about us," he said.
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