A man riding a bicycle will display legs pumping furiously while he flashes through city streets at the speed of a racing car.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

His legs were narrow and very long.

Fuzzy caterpillars, snails with their sensitive horns, struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco, spit ''.

To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.

Abel moved and adjusted his long legs.

Her legs hung down long and thin as she sat on the high stool.

It lacks pollen baskets and possesses only a large number of long, branched hairs on its legs, on which the pollen grains will collect.

The abdomen is long, appears to be segmented and bears numerous pairs of flattened legs.

Typically they have small ears, large, close set eyes, and long hind legs.

With the exceptions of the bush dog, raccoon dog and some domestic breeds, canids have relatively long legs and lithe bodies, adapted for chasing prey.

The first suit was rejected for being too fat with long legs giving Kong an almost cute look.

Those for the east and south legs were straightforward, each leg resting on four concrete slabs, one for each of the principal girders of each leg but the other two, being closer to the river Seine were more complicated: each slab needed two piles installed by using compressed-air caissons long and in diameter driven to a depth of to support the concrete slabs, which were thick.

Its chief distinguishing characteristics are its extremely long neck and legs, its horn-like ossicones and its distinctive coat patterns.

Despite its long neck and legs, the giraffe's body is relatively short.

Giraffes would probably not be competent swimmers as their long legs would be highly cumbersome in the water, although they could possibly float.

Prey, however, are moving targets, and though early humans changed the traditionally ape-like appearance of the australopithecines and adapted long, strong legs to facilitate sustained running, dense, hairy coats still posed a potentially fatal risk of causing overheating during the chase.

The hind legs are longer than their fore limbs, their hands are long and thin, and their thumb cannot be opposed to the other fingers correctly.

Their long legs and curved canine teeth are adapted for hunting small mammals, birds, and reptiles, and their large feet and fused leg bones give them a physique well-suited for long-distance running, capable of maintaining speeds of for extended periods of time.

All have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails.

The dogs have robust bodies, strongly muscled, with long legs and a short back, with the tails carried low.

alt = Man sitting with legs covered in boat that tapers to a point at each end holding long, pointed, wooden pole

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

They are described as bipedal humanoids, with long legs, short torsos, and improbably flexible neck vertebrae.

She slowly began to turn into a black poplar, the bark spreading up her legs from the earth, but just before the woody stiffness finally reached her throat and as her arms began sprouting twigs her husband Andraemon heard her cries and came to her.

The strong legs of the Ostrich are unfeathered and show bare skin, with the tarsus ( the lowest upright part of the leg ) being covered in scales – red in the male, black in the female.

The body wore ecclesiatical vestments common for Boniface's lifetime: long stockings covered legs and thighs, and it was garbed also with the maniple, soutain, and pontifical habit made of black silk, as well as stole, chasuble, rings, and bejeweled gloves.

Muzzle long ; nose pad wide and black ; ears rufous ; legs long ; tail long, bushy, black tipped.

The legs are black and short with thick fur on the soles of the paws.

Hares are generally larger than rabbits, with longer ears, larger and longer hind legs and have black markings on their fur.

* Froglets – Small orange aliens with black, stalk-like legs and large eyes, who travel around in a top hat.

Both images parallel the stylised depiction of the Gorgons on the black figure name vase decorated by the Nessos painter ( c. 600 BC ), with the face and shoulders turned frontally, and the legs in a running or kneeling position.

The adult fly's body is black, blue-black, or bronze, with some yellow on the head, antennae, and legs.

The adult fly's body is black, blue-black, or bronze, with some yellow on the head, antennae, and legs.

The various speckled coat colours when occurring in English Setters are referred to as belton ; valid combinations are white with black ( blue belton ), white with orange flecks ( orange belton )), white with orange flecks and lighter nose ( lemon belton ), white with liver flecks ( liver belton ), or " Tricolor " which is blue or liver belton with tan markings on the face, chest, and legs.

These simple and easily handled components ( called " bug logic ", due to their black rectangular bodies and tinned metal " legs ") are still used extensively in prototyping ( using plug-in " breadboards "), for applications where replaceable components in sockets are appropriate, and for limited production ( using printed circuit boards ).

The bill is almost black, the legs and irides brown.

As the name implies, both sexes have a blue tail and rump, and orange-red flanks ; they also have a white throat and greyish-white underparts, and a small, thin black bill and slender black legs.

The dragon portion is twenty feet long with black scales, large claws, a barbed tail, and dragon legs made out of hundreds of viper snakes.

* Mantle ( in some countries referred to as Bostons due to the similar coloration and pattern as a Boston Terrier ): The color is black and white with a solid black blanket extending over the body ; black skull with white muzzle ; white blaze is optional ; whole white collar preferred ; a white chest ; white on part or whole of forelegs and hind legs ; white tipped black tail.

On March 9, 1970 two black radicals, Ralph Featherstone and William (" Che ") Payne, died on U. S. Route 1 south of Bel Air, Maryland, when a bomb being carried between Payne's legs on the front floorboard of their car exploded, completely destroying the car and dismembering both occupants.

The spider then aligns one pair of its legs with each of the four lines in the hollow " X ", making a complete " X " of white lines with a very eye-catching spider coloured bright yellow on a field of black or variegated red white and yellow stripes forming its centre.

He has a red cubic head with a small black mouth which does not move when he speaks, a red rectangular body, brown fingers, white legs and a gold toe on each foot.