I said, "do you mean to say that you have ridden fifty miles to tell me the price of a leggy beast like that, after I had told you that twentyfour was my highest offer?
A lean, leggy pug and a dog with short legs and a long body are equally objectionable.
Even the gaunt, leggy mule was tired to the dropping point, and the tough buckskin which trailed up behind went with downward head.
They were both leggy chestnuts, with surprising signs of blood' and all the earmarks of sprinters; but in Godwin's trade sharp getaways were probably often necessary.
During the hush that preceded the saying of grace in the mess hall, he could hear Ellick whispering directions to Leggy and his other dusky assistants, who were busied dishing up the meal.
The gangling Leggy aimed a parting swing at him with the long-tailed spoon, and missed.
It should be moderately pruned each year, and when it attains to a leggy appearance cut hard back.
Quick and the Myrobalan Plum should be planted in double rows to form a hedge, and be cut back hard at the time of planting to form a bottom to the hedge, which would otherwise become leggy and bare at the base.
This should be slightly pruned in spring, and when leggy cut to the ground.
As it inclines to be leggy below, I have trained a Crimson Rambler Rose over the lower part, tying it in to any bare places in the Robinia.
Its only fault is leggy growth; one year's growth measures twenty-three inches, but this only means that it should be planted among other bushes.
What are generally recommended as climbing Roses are too ready to ramp away, leaving bare, leggy growth where wall-clothing is desired.
Behind him poured forward a complete mass of curs, gaunt leggy brutes and as savage as they make them, given the conditions of night and a fleeing unwonted object.
Parson Leggy was the other would-be mediator; for he hated to see the two principal parishioners of his tiny cure at enmity.
Parson Leggy declared roundly that his like had not been seen since the days of Rex son of Rally.
It was at the instigation of Parson Leggy that the squire imported a bloodhound to track the Killer to his doom.
The little man's treatment of David, exaggerated as it was by eager credulity, became at length such a scandal to the Dale that Parson Leggy determined to bring him to task on the matter.
James Moore and Parson Leggy accompanied him to the bridge over the Wastrel, and stood a while watching as he disappeared into the summer night.
Parson Leggy danced an unclerical jig, and shook hands with the squire till both those fine old gentlemen were purple in the face.
Parson Leggy Hornbut will tell you that his is the smallest church in the biggest parish north of the Derwent, and that his cure numbers more square miles than parishioners.
Several others spoke, and, last of all, Parson Leggy rose.
The little black-and-tan lady, Parson Leggy used to say, had been the only thing on earth M'Adam cared for.
The little black-leggy divils," he said to himself.
Baby Marise was a leggy and big-eyed girl of nine, and Jock was in the full hale prime of latter middle age.
And so time wore on--time that shaped the roly-poly Buff into a leggy but handsome six-months' pup.
The leggy girl had just thrust out her tongue at an expostulating nurse.
They stood together by the railing, and she leaned forward the better to watch a leggy little girl with a brickdust-red pigtail in a group on the pier.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leggy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: colossal; gangling; giant; gigantic; lanky; lengthy; long; statuesque; tall
