crane-necked

Within the hour, Elizabeth Van Der Mier and Barney, the conservator, were standing on the third floor of New Scotland Yard, among the identical desks lit by identical crane-necked lamps of the open office.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

And suppose some crane-necked general to go speeding by on a tall charger, spurring the destiny of nations, red-hot in expedition, there would indubitably be some effusion of military blood, and oaths, and a certain crash of glass; and while the chieftain rode forward with a purple coxcomb, the street would be left to original darkness, unpiloted, unvoyageable, a province of the desert night.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

Beside that creature, a crane-necked monster was undone when a falcon bit through its neck in a shrieking pass.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

The road is wide and good, and free from ravine or precipice; but from its continual turns, (of which I counted not less than sixty-five) is difficult and embarrassing to any but a crane-necked carriage; though in no place could an overturn produce worse consequence than a roll of a few yards.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

The master had already commenced dressing, and the man was fitting straps upon a light pair of crane-necked spurs, when his hand was arrested by the old question -- "Barney, where are the breeches?"

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden -- what a sorry, set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden -- - what a sorry, set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Typee; a real romance of the South Seas 1846

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Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life 1846

Never having seen any thing of the kind before, I was wonderfully pleased with the manoeuvring of several large ships, which passed through the sands at the same time with us: their motions seemed to be effected with as much ease and dexterity as if they had been crane-necked, carriages; and the effect as they pursued each other's track and windings was perfectly beautiful.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

To us, at that period, Herr Heuschrecke seemed one of those purse-mouthed, crane-necked, clean-brushed, pacific individuals, perhaps sufficiently distinguished in society by this fact, that, in dry weather or in wet, 'they never appear without their umbrella.'

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838