It is considerably larger than the common partridge, but not quite so heavy as the red-legged birds of Cyprus, although when flying it appears superior.
My spaniels delighted in the change, and worked the bush thoroughly as we proceeded along the route, occasionally flushing two or three red-legged partridges.
There was no game beyond a few wild red-legged partridges, although the appearance of the country had raised my expectations.
At the entrance he almost ran into the overseer Kent, a squat, bow-legged animal with the arms of a Hercules and the jowl of a bulldog.
Yes; and just behold that bandy-legged hopper, will you?
He peered at the cross-legged figure, outlined jet-black against the lemon-coloured drift of light.
Directed by the corporal, a bandy-legged Italian who even on the army diet managed to keep a faint odour of garlic about him, three soldiers in blue denims were sweeping up the leaves in the street between the rows of barracks.
When he came out, he found Andrews sitting cross-legged near his clothes.
He legged it on the newspaper for a while and then re-deserted, the same as most of the others, and went to Springfield to resume his studies.
Some newspapers make specialties of freak news, such as odd actions of lightning, three-legged chickens, etc.
This tornaq has the shape of a bandy legged man, his knees being bent outward and forward.
The Igdlungajung, a bandylegged people living inland.
And she and her bare-legged offspring melted into the growing crowd.
Moore slipped down in the familiar cross-legged attitude, lighted a cigarette and blew the smoke at the belly on the dong.
Den dis yere am a ride for life,” said the darkey to himself, as he sat cross-legged on the saddle and proceeded to reload his weapon.
They are peculiarly offensive, studies of bare-legged children howling and kicking in volumes of smoke" (Modern Painters, vol.
Some folks send silk hats and neckties to the heathen in their blindness, and some found hospitals for three-legged dogs.
On the other side of the fire Kark sat cross-legged upon the ground, skinning rabbits from a heap that had just been brought in by the trappers.
He did not speak for a few moments, and still retaining my hand, sank down cross-legged on the carpet close to my pillow, gazing at me thoughtfully.
Surely such an incongruous question was never put in an Arab town in the heart of Africa by a sheikh dressed in bernouse and turban, with a jewel-hilted yataghan at his side, sitting cross-legged on a cushion.
The horses of the broken-legged and the two dead Arabs were careering about; his own head-dress had fallen off, which was a serious affair, though the afternoon was waning.
Looks like the paw of the black cat that I dreamed I saw chasing the three-legged rat through the field of red clover," declared Stacy.
I don't want to dream of four-legged rats and blind mice, and besides, Chops is on the verge of nervous prostration.
Oh, he's chasing a two-legged rat through the chaparral," answered the fat boy carelessly.
This, Stacy declared, was because he had frightened the three-legged rat away from camp.
Did you hear about the three-legged rat and our black cat?
If I might make so bold as to inquire," said Tad after quiet had once more been restored, "why was the black cat chasing the three-legged rat through the field of red clover?
About the blind men and the one-eyed horse, and the black cat and the three-legged rat," answered the fat boy triumphantly.
For three nights running I dreamed that I saw a black cat chasing a three-legged rat through a field of red clover.
At some twenty feet distance he squatted down cross-legged before me.
In the thatched native quarter were more of the fine Swahili women sitting cross-legged on the earth under low verandas, engaged in different handicrafts; and chickens; and many amusing naked children.
We saw the native markets with their vociferating sellers seated cross-legged on tables behind piles of fruit or vegetables, while an equally vociferating crowd surged up and down the aisles.
She managed to pull Blue down to stiff-legged jumps and then to a walk.
Billy Louise slackened the reins, and Blue went off with short, stiff-legged jumps.
Bully, making ready to hop away, for as soon as he saw that long-legged and sharp-billed bird, he knew right away that he was in danger.
For a long time he sat cross-legged on his bunk, nursing his maimed limb and staring into vacancy as the express roared on through the night.
Turning suddenly, he was by Frank's side again in two long-legged strides.
Chipmunks, engaged in the same work of harvest, skip like long-legged streaks of light along the logs, and the short-tailed grey rats are as busy as either squirrels or chipmunks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
