Quickly, with a lilt in her movement, she fetched her work-basket, and together they examined the long-shanked old scissors.

He shot the five shots without appreciable sighting before each, as fast as his thumb could pull back the long-shanked hammer.

He laid great stress and emphasis on having 'his short pipe' with him, probably reserving a regular long-shanked 'churchwarden' for home use.

Black Kettle, Connell and several other men began to smoke a long-shanked pipe that they passed around the semicircle with great ceremony.

'Out of the way with these long-shanked flamingoes!'

'A long-shanked trooper, bearing the name of John Thomas Drew, was crawling along under fire of the batteries.