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Familiar Quotations

Legs

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.–Walter Abish

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.–Hoshang Akhtar

Blood flows down one leg and up the other.–Anonymous

It's all fun and games until someone gets shot in the leg.–Armageddon

Sorry brother, I just wanted to feel the power between my legs.–Armageddon

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.–Nancy Banks-Smith

Coward, n. one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.–Ambrose Bierce

So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks.–Samuel Bonom

A committee is an animal with four back legs.–John Le Carre

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.–Isadora Duncan

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Legs 1
• Legs – "Branches" 2
• Legs – "Foot" 2
• Legs – "Peg" 2
• Legs – "Stage" 2
• Use in Literature 5
• Legs 5
• Legs – "Air" 16
• Legs – "Animals" 16
• Legs – "Appeared" 18
• Legs – "Arms" 18
• Legs – "Aware" 24
• Legs – "Backwards" 25
• Legs – "Worst" 25
• Legs – "Bare" 26
• Legs – "Bear" 27
• Legs – "Beast" 27
• Legs – "Beat" 28
• Legs – "Beautifully" 28
• Legs – "Bed" 29
• Legs – "Being" 29
• Legs – "Below" 30
• Legs – "Big" 31
• Legs – "Black" 31
• Legs – "Blood" 32
• Legs – "Bodies" 32
• Legs – "Bones" 36
• Legs – "Boots" 36
• Legs – "Boys" 37
• Legs – "Break" 37
• Legs – "Breath" 38
• Legs – "Broke" 39
• Legs – "Browns" 41
• Legs – "Called" 42
• Legs – "Calves" 42
• Legs – "Carried" 43
• Legs – "Case" 44
• Legs – "Cat's" 45
• Legs – "Caught" 45
• Legs – "Chain" 46
• Legs – "Chair" 47
• Legs – "Chance" 49
• Legs – "Changing" 49
• Legs – "Children" 49
• Legs – "Closed" 51
• Legs – "Came" 52
• Legs – "Covered" 55
• Legs – "Creatures" 56
• Legs – "Crooked" 57
• Legs – "Curious" 57
• Legs – "Cut" 57
• Legs – "Dark" 59
• Legs – "Day" 60
• Legs – "Deadly" 61
• Legs – "Distance" 61
• Legs – "Doctor" 62
• Legs – "Dogs" 62
• Legs – "Done" 64
• Legs – "Don't" 64
• Legs – "Doubt" 65
• Legs – "Drawn" 65
• Legs – "Dressed" 67
• Legs – "Edge" 67
• Legs – "End" 68
• Legs – "Evenly" 69
• Legs – "Eyes" 69
• Legs – "Fall" 71
• Legs – "Far" 72
• Legs – "Fast" 73
• Legs – "Father" 73
• Legs – "Feathers" 74
• Legs – "Feet" 74
• Legs – "Felt" 77
• Legs – "Few" 79
• Legs – "Figure" 80
• Legs – "Fire" 81
• Legs – "Following" 81
• Legs – "Foot" 82
• Legs – "Forced" 82
• Legs – "Form" 83
• Legs – "Found" 84
• Legs – "Free" 86
• Legs – "Gathered" 86
• Legs – "Gentleman" 87
• Legs – "Getting" 87
• Legs – "Girls" 88
• Legs – "Go" 89
• Legs – "Gone" 90
• Legs – "Great" 91
• Legs – "Green" 93
• Legs – "Ground" 94
• Legs – "Growing" 95
• Legs – "Hair" 96
• Legs – "Hands" 97
• Legs – "Hung" 99
• Legs – "Hard" 100
• Legs – "Having" 101
• Legs – "Head" 103
• Legs – "Heard" 106
• Legs – "Heart" 107
• Legs – "Heavy" 108
• Legs – "Holding" 109
• Legs – "Hope" 110
• Legs – "Horse" 111
• Legs – "Hour" 113
• Legs – "Human" 114
• Legs – "Individual" 115
• Legs – "Jumping" 115
• Legs – "Keep" 116
• Legs – "Kicking" 117
• Legs – "Knees" 118
• Legs – "Lad" 119
• Legs – "Laid" 120
• Legs – "Lame" 121
• Legs – "Large" 121
• Legs – "Led" 122
• Legs – "Leaning" 123
• Legs – "Learned" 123
• Legs – "Left" 124
• Legs – "Lifted" 126
• Legs – "Limbs" 127
• Legs – "Little" 127
• Legs – "Live" 131
• Legs – "Looked" 132
• Legs – "Lost" 135
• Legs – "Lying" 136
• Legs – "Makes" 137
• Legs – "Man" 142
• Legs – "Matter" 150
• Legs – "Mean" 150
• Legs – "Minute" 151
• Legs – "Monster" 152
• Legs – "Morning" 152
• Legs – "Mother's" 153
• Legs – "Motion" 153
• Legs – "Mouth" 154
• Legs – "Movement" 155
• Legs – "Mutton" 157
• Legs – "Near" 158
• Legs – "Neck" 158
• Legs – "Night" 159
• Legs – "Nothing" 160
• Legs – "Observe" 161
• Legs – "Old" 161
• Legs – "Once" 163
• Legs – "Open" 164
• Legs – "Order" 165
• Legs – "Others" 166
• Legs – "Part" 166
• Legs – "Passed" 168
• Legs – "Patient" 168
• Legs – "Paul" 169
• Legs – "Piece" 170
• Legs – "Placed" 171
• Legs – "Pleased" 172
• Legs – "Poor" 172
• Legs – "Prisoners" 175
• Legs – "Quick" 175
• Legs – "Quietly" 175
• Legs – "Rabbit" 176
• Legs – "Ragged" 176
• Legs – "Rain" 177
• Legs – "Raised" 177
• Legs – "Reached" 178
• Legs – "Remained" 179
• Legs – "Remembered" 179
• Legs – "Rested" 180
• Legs – "Return" 181
• Legs – "Rise" 181
• Legs – "Rolled" 182
• Legs – "Room" 183
• Legs – "Rope" 183
• Legs – "Rose" 183
• Legs – "Round" 184
• Legs – "Rubbed" 186
• Legs – "Run" 187
• Legs – "Saved" 189
• Legs – "Seated" 189
• Legs – "Shook" 190
• Legs – "Shot" 191
• Legs – "Shoulder" 192
• Legs – "Showed" 194
• Legs – "Sides" 194
• Legs – "Sight" 195
• Legs – "Sit" 196
• Legs – "Skirts" 200
• Legs – "Sleep" 201
• Legs – "Slow" 201
• Legs – "Soft" 202
• Legs – "Soldier's" 202
• Legs – "Soon" 203
• Legs – "Sounds" 204
• Legs – "Speak" 205
• Legs – "Spite" 206
• Legs – "Sprawled" 206
• Legs – "Spring" 207
• Legs – "Stands" 208
• Legs – "Start" 210
• Legs – "Steadiness" 210
• Legs – "Stepped" 211
• Legs – "Stick" 211
• Legs – "Stopped" 212
• Legs – "Strangers" 212
• Legs – "Street" 213
• Legs – "Stretched" 213
• Legs – "Strong" 216
• Legs – "Sturdy" 217
• Legs – "Sure" 217
• Legs – "Swelled" 218
• Legs – "Swinging" 218
• Legs – "Table" 219
• Legs – "Taking" 220
• Legs – "Tall" 221
• Legs – "Thick" 221
• Legs – "Things" 222
• Legs – "Thought" 223
• Legs – "Thrust" 225
• Legs – "Thus" 225
• Legs – "Tied" 227
• Legs – "Tired" 228
• Legs – "Toes" 228
• Legs – "Tossed" 229
• Legs – "Touched" 229
• Legs – "Trembled" 230
• Legs – "Tried" 230
• Legs – "Trousers" 232
• Legs – "Trying" 233
• Legs – "Twisted" 233
• Legs – "Use" 234
• Legs – "Wait" 235
• Legs – "Walked" 236
• Legs – "Watch" 239
• Legs – "Water" 239
• Legs – "Waved" 240
• Legs – "Weak" 240
• Legs – "Wore" 241
• Legs – "Weight" 243
• Legs – "White" 243
• Legs – "Wild" 244
• Legs – "Wings" 245
• Legs – "Woman" 246
• Legs – "Wonderful" 247
• Legs – "Work" 247
• Legs – "Years" 248
• Legs – "Young" 249
• Legs – "Youth" 252
• Nonfiction Usage 253
• Lyrical Usage 253
• Script Usage 253
• Tongue-Twister Usage 258
• Spoken Usage 258
• Presidential Usage 259
• Song Title Usage 259
• Bible Usage 259
• Qur'anic Usage 260
• Journalism Usage 260
• Legal Usage 311
• Governmental Usage 311
• Patent Usage 313
• Encyclopedic Usage 361
• Lexicographic Usage 387
• Index 524