The drivers carry under the arm, at all times, the short, limber plantation whip, the badge of their office and their means of compulsion.
When he came to Creep Head and there paused to survey Anxious Bight in a flash of the moon, he was tingling and warm and limber and eager.
One limber had been held up some little way back I found, by getting jammed in a shell-hole in the road.
Weird noises occasionally floated through the trees; the faint "crack" of a rifle, or the rumble of limber wheels.
By the door already were Jerky Bill and Limber Jim and the Doughie and always more, dashing up with their ponies; halting with a sharp scatter of gravel to hear and comment.
But Limber Jim, taking the reins, sat upon the other end, waiting and smoking.
Limber Jim called for another drink and, with his cigar between his teeth, cracked his long bull-whacker whip.
Toothpick Kid is here," said he, "and Limber Jim, and the Doughie.
Swift and limberlike a stag, he obeyed each word or hint, and ran whither he was sent.
Wrathfully Mother Manz climbed down from her high seat, and tears of anger were in her eyes as she quickly fled into the house, her limber tongue for once forsaking her.
So badly did his misused body stiffen, that when he was called it required another ten minutes and a second glass of whiskey to unbend his joints and limber up the muscles.
The man continued his limber flight, and they jumped down and followed, firing.
At the word "Chicken-legs" he flew in a limber manner upon the nearest, and knocking him immediately flat, turned with spirit upon a second and kicked him.
Breathed turned toward one of the pieces, and ordered:-- "Limber to the rear!
And the half may limber you up for the longer distance.
Gordon, get your coat off andlimber up,” commanded Professor Beck.
A plate of limber crackers was unearthed from somewhere, also the disreputable remains of a box of marshmallows; and these latter Madamoiselle Demorest toasted on a hat-pin.
He struggled, he clawed, he kicked, he yelled; his arms threshed loosely, like thelimber appendages to a stuffed figure.
I was forcibly struck with the correctness of what he wrote, and the names of several of my old comrades which he quoted: Hill, Limber Jim, etc.
Limber Jim muttered that they would soon show him where he was, and went on grimly fixing up the scaffold anew.
The supports had not been set with the same delicacy as at first, and Limber Jim had to set his heel and wrench desperately at them before he could force them out.
Carrigan, Limber Jim, Larkin, Johnson and Goody each smote down a swath of men before them, as they moved resistlessly forward.
At the same instant Limber Jim's long legs took three great strides, and placed him directly in front of Delaney.
With him were Limber Jim, Dick McCullough, and one or two others.
Key, Limber Jim, Ned Carigan, Goody, Tom Larkin, and Ned Johnson led the advance with their companies.
Company, however, himself galloped a limber along this line of guns, dropping water and ammunition at the emplacements in the face of close-range fire.
The enemy had the last word, for he then shelled Martinsart, where he hit a horse, a mule, and a limber loaded with grenades, which fortunately did not burst.
Well, as he marches in over the rug and comes to a parade rest by the desk, he's about as limber as a length of gas pipe.
Honest, he don't strike me as such a bad lot: only a little limber in the backbone.
No answer was made, for poor Joe's neck was limber enough, and he quite insensible.
Sneak, turning their limber bodies over with his foot, until their wounds were uppermost.
Chorus: Then here's to the crossed cannons, they never will run, The limber and rolling caisson, The clank of the collar and rumble of gun As we follow the red guidon.
The first square and the cavalry gave way, and were with difficulty rallied behind the second square, leaving the gun in the hands of the enemy, who immediately carried off the limber and horses.
The gun and the second limber which had arrived from the cantonments, in attempting to gallop down hill, was overturned and lost.
Lieutenant McRae laughed at the ridiculous sight, remonstrated with the officer, and offered his squad to serve the gun, if there was any canister in the limber chest.
Then some clean partition boards were knocked out of a limber chest, the dough was spread on them and held near the fire till partially cooked.
When the pieces have got into battery, lie down, if on exposed ground, till theylimber up again, and then recommence the fire.
It was one of these little shiny black walking sticks made out of some kind of a limber wood, and it had a white handle on it, of ivory, carved like a woman's leg.
Add to this, a limber and graceful figure, which the jacket of his boyish dress exhibited to great advantage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
