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white-stockinged

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  • "Aye, I thought the Wildwood seemed a bit thin of company as the girls and I rode through," Kearn said, gesturing through the open door of the cabin to where a string of hobbled mules stood placidly behind a large white-stockinged bay.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • He was tall-very tall-with a breadth of shoulder and a stretch of white-stockinged calf that were attracting admiring glances from a cluster of oyster girls.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • "Aye, I thought the Wildwood seemed a bit thin of company as the girls and I rode through," Kearn said, gesturing through the open door of the cabin to where a string of hobbled mules stood placidly behind a large white-stockinged bay.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • He nuzzled at the man, his white-stockinged legs beating a quick and impatient tattoo on the pavement of the courtyard.

    Journey Into Love Logan, Jessica 1982

  • The General, smothered in that sudden hug, whimpered a little and kicked out wildly with his fat, white-stockinged legs.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

  • Nicky was evidently trying to turn it in the direction of the main road, but the leader had other views, and gave expression to them by sitting down suddenly on his haunches, with his white-stockinged forelegs struck straight out, his fiddle-head, with the white blaze between his wicked eyes, looking round over his shoulder at the invisible Nicky, whose remarks came floating up to Ishmael on the breeze.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • Women sat on drifts of newspapers on the steps, white-stockinged children quarrelled in the hot, dingy dooryards.

    The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Then he stiffened and sat up, staring at one white-stockinged ankle.

    The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century 1921

  • He turned, at that instant, and galloped a short distance along the crest, neighing again, and then paused like an expectant dog, with one forefoot raised, a white-stockinged forefoot.

    Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

  • By the liquid smoothness of that gallop, by the white-stockinged forefoot, by something about his head, and above all by what she knew of his cunning, she had recognized

    Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

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