He was a strong, loose-limbed man, with a swarthy face and straight black hair, a man of sturdy beliefs and strong prepossessions, yet not devoid of those good manners which spring naturally from a good heart.
It is also very well inhabited with strong well-limbed negroes, whom we found very daring and bold at several places.
For Corydon might have been Nausikaa herself; she might have marched in the Panathenaic procession, with one of the sacred vessels in her hands; she might have run in the Attic games, bare-limbed and fearless.
The climax of the splendid and distinctively Titianesque colour-harmony is the agitated crimson garment of the brown-limbed dancer who, facing his white-robed partner, turns his back to the spectator.
The more passionate of the two, she gazes straight into the eyes of her strong-limbed rustic lover, who half-reclining rests his hand upon her shoulder.
Among the captives big-limbed Slavs, and then more troops, some in the primitive costume of their native wilds, others in armour of all periods.
So from England, so little known to the Eastern contemporaries of William the Norman that it was held to be the mythical island of Thule, came strong-limbed Saxons driven from their homes.
In this ridicule of savage pugnacity one cannot fail to see the secret love of the writer for the uncouth power of his sound-hearted and sound-limbed compatriots.
But as the waters deepen, Rohan throws the pretty-limbed creature over his shoulder and wades thigh deep.
He would have thrown up the sponge there and then, but for the thought of the straight-limbed child in Cardigan Street, for whom he wanted money--money to feed and clothe him for the world to admire.
He wanted to run and meet her, and claim the sweet, straight-limbed child that he had just discovered.
Light-limbed though I be, have I not forced the impregnable Castle itself?
A little, slight-limbed lad,' says the historian of Sheppard.
There was much revelry, with song and dance, that no stranger could have thought those stiff-limbed weavers capable of; and the more they shouted and whirled through the barn, the more their host smiled and rubbed his hands.
To the left, Brother Hilarius furtively ignored his breviary as he passed a gay affiche, from which a silken-limbed dancer beguiled him with nimble, worldly caperings, and smiles of the flesh and the devil.
Round the corner of the straight-limbed woods, to the east, a motor vehicle made its appearance.
The broad, lean shoulders, and generally loose-limbed body was propelled swiftly and alertly at all times.
Dost in him forebode A new avatar of the large-limbed Goth, To break, or seem to break, tradition's clue.
I could easily imagine what a beauty my spaniel would be, clean-limbed and alert like the ones in the coloured lithographs.
There lurk three villains yonder in the wood, And each of them is wholly armed, and one Is larger-limbed than you are, and they say That they will fall upon you while ye pass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
