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L0103400 (lĕg)Legs
See Also: PAIN, PHYSICAL FEELINGS
- Ankles fine as an antelope’s —Josephine Edgar
- Ankles like door knobs —Anon
- The calves of her legs were as taut and stiff as anchor chains —Mary Ellen Chase
- Feet heavy as anchors —Richard Ford
- Feet large as spades —Aharon Megged
- Feet like canoes —Herbert Wilner
- Feet … swollen, driven through my shoes like devilled egg through a pastry bag —Ira Wood
- Feet … tripping like the feet of a restless pony —Adela Rogers St. John
- (The fiddler’s) feet were like the black hooves of a trotting horse that never seemed to touch the ground —Will Weaver
See Also: DANCING
- Her bony toes seemed as long and articulate as fingers —Thomas Williams
- Her legs were shapeless … like a fisherwoman’s —H. E. Bates
- His legs felt like two old rusted rain gutters —Flannery O’Connor
- (She was a vast blonde girl, with) huge limbs like a piece of modern sculpture —Barbara Pym
- Knees tuck out … like two hard-boiled eggs —Anne Piper
- Legs bowed like a wishbone —Ian MacMillan
See Also: BENDING/BENT
- Legs … as heavy as sunken logs —Nolan Miller
- Legs as shapeless and almost as thin as the lines in a child’s drawing —Niven Busch
- Legs as thick as newel posts —F. van Wyck Mason
- Legs bent like monster springs —Richard S. Prather
- Legs … bowed, rickety, like bent pipes —George Garrett
- Legs have gone mottled, like Roquefort cheese —Nadine Gordimer
Another simile to describe the effects of cellulite is “Thighs like cottage cheese.”
- Legs in motion like the hind parts of a dog —David Ignatow
- Legs knotted and angular as whittled wood —George Garrett
- Legs like a baseball bat —Delmore Schwartz
- (A large man with) legs like a billiard table —Joyce Cary
- Legs like an emaciated monkey’s —Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Legs like redwood trees —Pat Conroy
- Legs … like two pillars —Bertold Brecht
- Legs moving like the hammers of a grand piano —Paul Kuttner
- Legs shaped like lion’s paws —Jilly Cooper
- Legs solid as tree trunks —Richard Deming
- Legs … stiff as a wooden soldier’s legs —William Kotzwinkle,
- Legs … straight as a pair of poplar trees in a storm —Ariel Dorfman See Also: STRAIGHTNESS
- Legs were strong as old roots —Truman Capote
- Legs that were too long, like a colt’s —Beryl Markham
- Long, thin legs like wading birds —Elizabeth Hardwick
- My feet feel like balloons —Anthony Powell
- (The young lady has) a pair of ankles like chianti bottles —George Jean Nathan
See Also: INSULTS
- The pull of the tendons at his ankle like the taut ropes that control the sails of ships —Nadine Gordimer
- She (a ballet dancer) has legs like a Fordham tackle —Irwin Shaw
- Skinny legs, like the legs of a turkey gobbler —Ellen Glasgow
- Swings his game leg like a gate, creaking on its hinges —Bette Howland
- Thighs big as trees —John D. MacDonald
- Thighs like a wild mare —Thomas Williams
- Thighs like pillars of a temple —Peter De Vries
- Thighs like twin portals —Paule Marshall
- Thighs solid as poplars —Sharon Sheehe Stark
- Thighs … they look like they’re made of steel —Jonathan Valin
- Varicose veins crawled like fat blue worms under her stockings —Ross Macdonald
- Veins like big ugly worms —James Crumley
Noun | 1. | legs - staying power; "that old Broadway play really has legs" |