spindle-legged

I'm trying to figure out if the beings of wire and feather, spindle-legged and scarecrowed, are of the same ilk as Madam Terpsichore.

Howard Hughes Blogs in Her Sleep jacobluest 2010

I'm trying to figure out if the beings of wire and feather, spindle-legged and scarecrowed, are of the same ilk as Madam Terpsichore.

"...moments before it spat its rain down on me." greygirlbeast 2010

I'm trying to figure out if the beings of wire and feather, spindle-legged and scarecrowed, are of the same ilk as Madam Terpsichore.

Howard Hughes Blogs in Her Sleep jacobluest 2010

Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

There are filigree flowers, spindle-legged men, miniature berries and delicate boats.

'Primadonnas': Kitsch as Political Commentary 2008

By the bye, who was that spindle-legged, shoe-buckled parson feller we met by now?

Life's Little Ironies 2006

And then, at the end of an aisle cluttered with glassy armoires and spindle-legged vanities, dancing under my septuagenarian's eyes and those fixed, spotted lights, I saw -- when I looked again I couldn't mistake it -- this ghost, this small, lost thing, floating like a piece of impossible wreckage toward me.

Excerpt: The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler 2001

The delicate silver instruments stood once more on the spindle-legged tables, puffing and whirring serenely.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

'Cover your faces and take a spray,' Mrs Weasley said to Harry and Ron the moment she saw them, pointing to two more boitles of black liquid standing on a spindle-legged table.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003