stilt-legged

And the tribe gathered on a great space of beaten snow before my door, with the meat caches towering stilt-legged in the rear.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

And the tribe gathered on a great space of beaten snow before my door, with the meat caches towering stilt-legged in the rear.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

The weather says July, but the crowds say November: There are empty tables in Daylight Donuts, empty parking spaces under the pastel, stilt-legged beach houses.

Vacation town Gulf Shores glimpses break from spill routine as BP well cap holds 2010

In June, the artist's 1957 depiction of a nude woman astride a stilt-legged rhinoceros, "Celestial Ride," sold at Christie's for $3.2 million, five times what the seller paid for it eight years earlier.

The Lust for Late 2010

While ichthyomyines and ichthyomyine-like murids are speedy swimmers that dart rapidly away underwater when threatened, Kerbis Peterhans & Patterson (1995) reported observations (made by Jonathan Kingdon and Ivan Sanderson) indicating that the stilt-legged mice really do use their long, narrow feet like stilts, wading around in shallow water.

Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

Such stilt-legged, wading mice seem unique to Africa.

Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

I really like those stilt-legged creatures in the bottom image.

Jules Verne et Dinotopia 4 Octobre James Gurney 2008

If the proposed relationship between stilt-legged horses and Hippodion and other changes are supported by additional data the Baraminologists are not only stuck with fitting everything into 6000 years but explaining why molecular data is unacceptable.

Pleistocene Horses - The Panda's Thumb 2005

So he goes on, and in his mind's eye sees the quiet calm lives of the stilt-legged creatures who swayed and stepped among breakers and tide rushes; seeking the floating ambient glowlife that fed them, that made possible time around fires at the shore, and from that brought into being some culture very distant from the hunter-based and forward-tilting human imperatives.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

A sharp left down an alley I hadn't known existed, then left again, dodging under somebody's stilt-legged porch, where once, I believe, I played as a child, with a girl called Sis or Sissy, but I hadn't thought of her in years.

Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977