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I had such strength, health, and spirits, that I had more life in my little finger than half the fellow-commoners genteel, spindle-shanked striplings, who might have passed for a collection of my grandfather's walking-canes bad in their whole bodies. And I often think," continued Gawtrey, "that health and spirits have a great deal to answer for!
I had such strength, health, and spirits, that I had more life in my little finger than half the fellow-commoners genteel, spindle-shanked striplings, who might have passed for a collection of my grandfather's walking-canes bad in their whole bodies. And I often think," continued Gawtrey, "that health and spirits have a great deal to answer for!
"With a spindle-shanked husband capering in a Court suit before he goes to bed every night, that he may n't forget what a fine fellow he was one day bygone! You're growing lean on it, Mart, like a recollection fifty years old." "You have never forgiven me that day, Philip!" "Jealous, am I? Take the money, give up the girl, and see what friends we'll be.
Judge of your Emperor with a swollen nose, blacken your Dukes in the eye: if they remain Dukes and Emperors you may safely obey them. They are men, Borso, they are men! Yes, you spindle-shanked rascal, you may well wince. Do you ponder how you would stand assay? So do I ponder it, brother, and doubt horribly." He clapped his hand to his face. "Steady now, steady, here comes another bout.
And that little spindle-shanked Yankee, and his cousin, didn't insult me, by sending me my hat and gun, and the skin of that wolf, and by telling every body in the settlement that I was frightened out of my senses, without seeing any thing to be frightened at, did they? I'd like to catch that Archie Winters by himself. He's little, and I am sure that I could whip him.
He was short of stature, spindle-shanked, rachitic and malformed, and of his face, with its colossal nose, loose mouth and shallow brow, Giovio says that "it was the ugliest ever seen on man." Such was the person of the young king he was twenty-four years of age at the time who poured his legions into Rome, and all full-armed as if for work of immediate destruction.
Though some years my senior he was but a lean, spindle-shanked creature, whom I felt better able to give a buffet to than to take one from him. The big man let loose a round dozen of oaths. "Here's a fine cockerel come into our own house of call to beard us!" he exclaimed between his profanities.
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden what a sorry, set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! Stuffed calves, padded breasts, and scientifically cut pantaloons would then avail them nothing, and the effect would be truly deplorable.
He was a tall, rakish-looking fowl, whose erect carriage and lack of tail-feathers made him look like a spindle-shanked urchin as he towered there among the busy hens. In order that there might be no mistake as to his belligerent intentions, P.T. crowed again. The other replied with a sort of croupy hoarseness. "Sounds like he was full to the neck with your garden-seeds," commented Hiram.
Learn hence, my fair countrywomen, to consider your own weakness, and the many occasions on which the strength of a man may be useful to you; and, duly weighing this, take care that you match not yourselves with the spindle-shanked beaus and petit-maitres of the age, who, instead of being able, like Joseph Andrews, to carry you in lusty arms through the rugged ways and downhill steeps of life, will rather want to support their feeble limbs with your strength and assistance.
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