Frogs in the Syrrhophus marnockii group tend to have shorter shanksand feet, thereby giving those species a more stocky appearance.
If you succeed, I'll give long-shanks his nunc dimittis, and send him home on a trot.
The baronet threw his long fleshless shanks out of the bed, and began to get on his clothes as fast as he could.
I would have ye to ken that I am a gentleman; I bear a king's name; I am nae rider to kick my shanks at your hall-door.
The skins are now dried out, sometimes by suspending from the hind shanks and sometimes by nailing on boards or wooden frames.
They also have white faces and shanks and yield a large pelt with fine grain.
The hair is next removed from face and shanksby means of a blunt "rubbing knife," and the pelt then immersed in water.
Mr. Flexible Shanks then brought to him the poker, and said, "Tetrao urogallus orygometra crex!
Anastasio, to make his load lighter, smashed off the shanks with a stone, although he carried a knife in his belt--a striking trick of heredity.
And now that all the peoples of Munza-mulgar are our enemies, we must press on, with no more idling and fine eating and sitting shanks to fire, or we shall never reach the Valleys alive.
Some even now were seated on the rocky verge as easily as a Skeeto in its tree-top, their lean shanks dangling over.
John Ayliffe was not sufficiently versed in the laws of the land to perceive that Mr. Shanks was telling him a falsehood.
Shanks did not like the idea of his staying, and after some farther discussion a compromise was effected.
It was not much, but it was strong, and Mr. Shanks applied himself to the preparation of some more medicine of the same sort.
Shanks shook his head, and John Ayliffe added sullenly, "Then I'll stay and fight it out too.
Why you proposed that she should be sent away yourself, and Shanks drew out the affidavit.
Mr. Shankswas all that he had ever desired to be, an opulent man.
We'll try at least," said Mr. Shanks in a bolder tone.
Mr. Shanks himself left the city desk and came up to work with us.
So I took the note away and tore it up, just as Mr. Shanks entered the room.
Very likely Mr. Shanks had been observing my campaign against the beats and thought me a dangerous man in those days of big libel suits.
I have still the bulletin in which Mr. Shanks spoke of me as the man whose work had done much to "make the Tribune police reports the best in the city.
I had known thatShanks carried poisoned liquor in his pack, with the hope that it would destroy any indians who might come into possession of it, if he was taken, whether alive or dead.
Shanks and I went out with two Mohegon indians on a scout.
I had been out with Shanks on minor occasions, but I must relate my first adventure.
Shanks and I paddled a light bark canoe down the Lake next day, in the bottom of which lay a wounded British officer attended by his servant.
Shanks and I had finally a great fancy for each other and passed most of our time in company.
After a time I heard a shot, and shortly two more, whenShanks came running back to me.
I was awakened by Shanks in the night and heard a great howling of wolves at some distance off togther with a gun shot.
After this expedition we scouted from Crown Point in canoes, Shanks and myself going as far north as we dared toward Isle au Noix, and one day while lying on the bank we saw the army coming.
We were advancing cautiously when Shanks caught me by the arm saying "we must run, that they had all died of the small-pox," and run we did lustilly for a good long distance.
Shanks followed back on our trail, while I fell into a drouse but was so sore I could not sleep.
After some hours travel I became so exhausted that I stopped to rest, whereat the Mohigans left us, but Shanks bided with me, though urging me to move forward.
Shanks and I fell in with the Ranger boats, being yet in our small bark and much hurled about by the waves, which rolled prodigious.
There is a plot to ruin one of the most exemplary young men in Grandon," proceeded Shanks in a low tone.
And then Shanks held up a gleaming dagger, the design of the hilt being a serpent's head.
Tige was left to guard the sick man, and then Hiram Shankshastened from the spot.
It was at a farm-house that the sick engineer had found shelter, and in order to effectually disguise him the indefatigable Shanks had shaved his beard, and cut his hair close, over which he fitted a wig of wool, and stained his face and arms.
Hiram Shanks moved through the bushes, and then uttered a surprised exclamation.
Then queer Hiram Shankscame to his feet, and gazed sharply about him.
Hiram Shanks when once out of hearing of the sick man.
A hundred dollars shall be your fee, doctor, if you revive her so she can speak again," declared Shanks in a tone of the most intense eagerness.
Cobblers are a thoughtful race of men, and Tom Shanks was one of their number.
It was the handiwork of the poor French creature, that had no other Christian employment but making these and suchlike, out of sheep- shanks and marrow-bones.
The back door opened and Napoleon entered, his thin shanks blue with cold.
Scald and clean three or four sets of goose or duck giblets, and stew them slowly with a pound or two of gravy beef, scrag of mutton, or the bone of a knuckle of veal, an ox tail, or someshanks of mutton.
If there is too much gravy for the dish, take only a part to season for serving, the less the better; and to increase the richness, add a few beef bones and shanks of mutton in stewing.
To make a broth that will keep long, put the mouse round of beef into a deep pan, with a knuckle bone of veal, and a few shanks of mutton.
Shank-less beef was beef quarters with the four shanks removed.
Paul Gelid, who it seems had slept through the whole row, was at length startled out of his sleep, and sticking one of his longshanks over the side of his cot in act to descend, immersed it in the cold salt brine.
Mr. Shanks is socially popular and is a member of the University Club of Montreal and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
It makes me very uneasy; and I have sent forShanks to come to me to-morrow morning.
Mr. Shanks must be found, and informed that I want to see him early to-morrow, as I shall go to London on the following day.
Thus, notwithstanding that the yellow-shanks does not breed on the pampas, we have it with us all the year 'round.
Mr. Whitaker tells me that the last of the yellow-shanks move out of Newfoundland about the end of October; these are probably all young birds.
I then remembered hunting for green-shanks nests in the north of Scotland; there the nests were usually placed on a dry ridge, and seeing such a ridge near the edge of the tundra I suggested to my friend that we should go and look it over.
The shanks and toes should be a clear deep orange.
Since all breeds of ducks should have clean or unfeathered legs it is likewise necessary to guard against any breeders which show down on the shanks or between the toes as this sometimes occurs.
Shanks & Sons for the page of "Dolphin Old Style" type; to Mr. F.
Shanks and christened "Dolphin," and some of the modern versions of Venetian founts are pretty satisfactory and generally available.
Shanks smooth, irregularly curved or bent, three to six times as long as the middle rod.
Spicula all geminate-quadriradiate, with a long thick middle rod and four shorter diverging shanks on each end of it.
The geminate-radiate spicula commonly with three or four, rarely two or five, shanks on each end, often different on the two ends of the middle rod.
Spicula all geminate-quadriradiate, with a short simple middle rod and four diverging shanks on each end of it.
Shanks curved or bent, very thin, smooth, commonly much longer than the middle rod.
Shanks straight, nearly conical, smooth; for the most part three or four shanks on each end, but sometimes also five or six; very often this number is unequal on the two ends.
Spicula all geminate-radiate, with a short middle rod and a variable number of shanks on each end of it.
Spicula all geminate-radiate, but with a different and variable number of shanks on each end of the middle rod.
Spicula all geminate-quadriradiate, composed of a simple short middle rod and of four diverging shanks on each end of it; the shanks are quite smooth, irregularly curved or bent, and four to eight times as long as the middle rod.
There are nails, shanksto strengthen the arch of the shoe, metal shanks to the buttons, and eyelets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shanks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
