At last he made a leap and went through it, but his right leg unfortunately caught in the hoop, and that caused him to fall to the ground doubled up in a heap on the other side.
Who could trace a leg of mutton after it was cut down and eaten?
I had nearly got to the Office when a cook from Inverleith Terrace came and reported the theft of a leg of mutton.
But how, in the name of all that's wonderful, has the leg found its way here before me?
Why," said I, "you could scarcely serve up to your master and his guests a leg of mutton that had been stolen by a sweep, and been in the Police Office.
Ralph had forgotten his wounded leg in the recent excitement; it was but a flesh wound, though a deep one.
He turned over leg bones, skulls, and all which he could find, not leaving one unnoticed, but none were human remains.
Even now the boy was muttering and rambling in his sleep, the fever was rising higher with the approach of nightfall, and the wound in his leg was terribly inflamed.
The man who addressed him was a stooping, lame old man, dressed nearly like a peasant, and wearing on his left leg a leathern knee-cap, from which hung a rather large bell.
Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as rapidly as his leg would allow, while taking a side glance at his melon frames.
She gave us her last commands; if you had more faith, and if you had been in her cell, she would have cured your leg by touching it.
The left leg of the A is the Nivelles road, the right one the Genappe road, while the string of the A is the broken way running from Ohain to Braine l'Alleud.
Thereupon the Brown of Cualnge became infuriated, and he described a very circle of rage around the Whitehorned, and he rushed at him, so that he broke his lower leg with the shock.
He sent its hind leg away from him to Port Largè ('Port of the Hind Leg').
The leg and the loin of lamb, when little, should be roasted together; the former being lean, the latter fat, and the gravy is better preserved.
The addition of an ounce of gum arabic, and two ounces of isinglass, to four ounces of the extract from a leg of beef, considerably diminished the consistence of the mass, without adding to its bulk.
Roast a juicy leg of mutton three-quarters; then gash it in several places, and press out the juice by a screw-press.
A legof pork should be in salt eight or ten days; turn it and rub it every day.
His favourite dainties were, a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pie, with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef.
A leg of nine pounds will take two and a half or three hours, if you like it thoroughly done, especially in very cold weather.
Take care it does not boil fast; if it does, the knuckle will break to pieces, before the thick part of the meat is warm through; a leg of seven pounds takes three hours and a half very slow simmering.
Thus managed, a leg of mutton is a most economical joint.
The inside of a sirloin of beef is best for this dish, or a leg of mutton.
It was here that the beautiful Nellie was gored by one fragment of shell and her master's leg torn by another.
He was on the point of leading the fierce charge against the Spaniards when shot down by a Mauser bullet passing through his right leg below the knee.
And with his one sound legand hist two sticks he went cheerfully paddling along.
Then he admitted that two strangers had been there on Saturday morning; that he had dressed a broken leg for one of them, and had a crutch made for him, and they left after breakfast.
Booth's broken leg had by this time become very painful, and this made it necessary that he should stop to have it dressed.
Booth's leg had been broken by a fracture of the fibula, or small bone of the leg, when he fell on the stage on leaping from the President's box, and by this time had become very painful.
Being asked if the man whose leg he had dressed was not Booth, he said he was not.
Governor, stamping upon the floor with both wooden leg and massive cane.
Thump, thump, thump, across the floor went the wooden leg with its silver bands, and with every thump the Heer Governor grew still more puzzled and angered.
The chicken leg was picked bare, the bread was nibbled, and the little pie was eaten all around.
Wound in my leg makes me feel sick, and the sun's hot.
If you felt as if something red-hot was being stuck in your leg you'd feel envious too.
He struggled blindly as he went, vainly clutching first at an overset chair, then at a leg of the table, and screeching piteously the while to the Queen to save him.
The alguazil fled, leaving me one leg free, the other burdened by the gyve, and as he fled so fled all others, being thus taken unawares.
A wrestler's arms enlaced his body, a sinewy legcoiled itself snake-wise about one of his own, pulling it from under him.
If your new black sash catches in the briers, let it catch; heed it not, for he is making wonderful play with that lame leg up the hill.
The huge man swung one legover the end of the table, and looked down into the face of the lawyer with eyes softened by an expression of bygone tenderness--the look Sargent had been searching for so long.
As he stood before the mirror of his bureau and adjusted a fresh stock, he smiled at the wavering reflection before him.
For a moment the ruffian looked down at him, puzzled, then gave a quick, coarse laugh.
