1 Quickly, with a lilt in her movement, she fetched her work-basket, and together they examined the long - shanked old scissors.
2 He shot the five shots without appreciable sighting before each, as fast as his thumb could pull back the long - shanked hammer.
3 He laid great stress and emphasis on having 'his short pipe' with him, probably reserving a regular long - shanked 'churchwarden' for home use.
4 Black Kettle, Connell and several other men began to smoke a long - shanked pipe that they passed around the semicircle with great ceremony.
5 'Out of the way with these long - shanked flamingoes!'
6 'A long - shanked trooper, bearing the name of John Thomas Drew, was crawling along under fire of the batteries.
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