None of these suitors, however, made any impression on the object of their attentions, who was so much of a child that she was walking on stilts in the garden when Samuel Osbourne first called at the house.
I had secreted as much food in the pockets of my jacket as they could hold, and, late in the day, I challenged my companions to a race on stilts across the country, pointing to a rock which projected from the hillside at some distance.
I found, after some practice, that I could walk on stilts as well as they could.
These stiltsare elaborately carved poles, with carved figures towards the lower end, on the heads of which the feet rest.
Having never met with this use of stilts among any other people, it seemed a matter of curiosity to notice it here.
We have all heard of the use of stilts by the shepherds of the Landes; but I have met with only one passage which speaks of their use in Ireland.
It occurs to us that nothing could please a parrot more, if it could be, than a pair of stilts on which it could hop comfortably.
The literary parrot, more fortunate than his feathered fellow, finds stilts in words--obsolete words, such as men do not use in common intercourse with their fellows.
Probably not one in a hundred usual readers, could 'read and translate' the word-stilts with which we have trammelled our poetic feet, except with the aid of patient and repeated communion with his English dictionary.
Within fifteen yards a dozen stilts stalk in the shallows; hard by is a group of godwits, some probing the ooze, the rest preening in eccentric outstretched poses.
Small parties distributed themselves over the marismas, and with them came an unwonted profusion of other waders, stilts and curlews, whimbrels and godwits, the latter a month or two before their usual date.
I would have known thee, boy, in the landes of Bourdeaux, had I met thee marching there like a crane on a pair of stilts [the crutches or stilts which in Scotland are used to pass rivers.
All the real things of this world, cities and schooners and houses on stilts and long reaches of blue water, had slipped back into the dim land of dreams.
The stilts were duly secured, and then the order followed, "And now the ropes for the launching," and another glance prompted the lowering of the summer swings for their new use.
The stilts are, in truth, a modern realisation of the gift of the seven-league boots.
What the "backstay" is to the inhabitant of the district around Lydd, the stilts are to the lonely dwellers in the Landes.
Stilts have the elementary recommendation of overcoming the difficulty of moving about in the Landes.
Neither will it do to appear on stilts among the dikes; so, Peter, we'll just jump on clear of this town and then we'll trust to our wits.
Our bridge of stilts we had removed, so that we felt ourselves quite secure from surprise.
Tossing to me all the bundles, and desiring me to leave the stilts as a bridge for him on his return, he set off to the village with his musket on his shoulder.
We walked to the copse, and the ditch being rather too wide for me to leap, O'Brien laid the four stilts together so as to form a bridge, over which I contrived to walk.
When within a few miles of St Nicholas, we threw away our stilts and the clothes which we had on, and dressed ourselves in those O'Brien had purchased.
The next morning we made use of our stiltsto cross the ditch, and carrying them in our hands we boldly set off on the high road to Malines.
O'Brien then took the stilts belonging to the man, giving, me those of the woman.
We very often put on our stilts for practice on the road, which detained us very much, and it was not until the eighth day, without any variety or any interruption, that we arrived at Malines.
They were dressed in a strange attire, ribands pinned upon their clothes, and two pairs of very high stiltslying by their sides.
From this green tangle a pipe line on stilts broke away and straddled down a headlong hill.
It was close to the sandy shore of the Lake; from the rear porch, which was perched on wooden stilts in the fashion of Chicago apartments, the gray blue waters of the great lake could be seen.
Around the factories and mills the little houses were perched high onstilts to keep their feet out of the mud of the submerged prairie.
Another class of Nats walk on high stilts and the women show their confidence by dancing and singing under them.
Holding my stilts at the proper angle, I sprang quickly upon them as soon as I saw that Teinturier, in spite of his condition, was close on my heels, and then I marched triumphantly into the pool of water.
Ordinarily this was an unremunerative art, but on a few occasions I derived real profit from it, when my stilts enabled me to escape storms that were about to break over my head.
On lordly stilts we saw him stride A season brief, too swollen with pride-- Alas, poor David!
The end of it is that nothing is left for me to do but to betake myself to stilts likewise in order to reach the electoral palace.
Your excellency, I mean the stilts on which they parade around when the mud is very bad.
Trays and plates may be placed on edge with small stilts between, although the expert firer may stack safely on edge without stilts as long as the glazed surface of one piece is touched only by an unglazed bottom or rim of the one next.
If plates are piled one above the other, it is always safer to have medium sized stilts between them.
It's the most perfect specimen of a wampus onstilts I ever seen.
The only lollygaholopus an' wampus on stilts out of a museum!
The sidewalks were also resting on stilts or posts, so that in crossing a street a person would have to walk down a pair of stairs, then across the street, and mount another pair of stairs.
Many of the houses then were built on stilts or posts.
I mean, take care you don't tumble off the stilts now you have got on to them again.
The shepherds on the flat plains in the south of France use stilts to enable them to look over a wide stretch of country, and they become so expert in their use that they can travel twice as fast as an ordinary walker on foot.
The first stilts I ever used--I was brought up on a farm--I cut "with my little hatchet.
Much better stilts can be made from sticks or board strips, of sufficient length for grasping with the hands, and with foot rests nailed at any required height from the ground part.
Flies on stilts is a funny idea, but not more funny than the appearance of these troublesome little insects.
Perry, the terminus of the line, was a frame station lodged on stilts in a sea of surrounding mud.
O'Brien then took thestilts belonging to the man, giving me those of the woman.
We walked to the copse, and the ditch being rather too wide for me to leap, O'Brien laid the four stilts together, so as to form a bridge, over which I contrived to walk.
When within a few miles of St. Nicholas, we threw away our stilts and the clothes which we had on, and dressed ourselves in those O'Brien had purchased.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stilts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
