Citations:calfless

English citations of calfless

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1883 — George W. Williams, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1883), page 448:
The negro was said to have an oval skull, a flat forehead, snout-like jaws, swollen lips, a broad flat nose, short crimped hair, falsely called wool, long arms, meagre thighs, calfless legs, highly elongated heels, and flat feet.
1900 — Leo Tolstoy, The Awakening (trans. William E. Smith), Street & Smith (1900), Chapter VI:
The village scenes came to his mind—the women, children and old men, whose poverty and exhaustion he had noticed as if for the first time, especially that oldish child which twisted its little calfless legs—and he involuntarily compared them with the city folks.
1903 — Rupert Hughes, The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume I, Chapter XV:
He gained friends elsewhere, and finally settled in Darmstadt, where he still found women's hearts susceptible, in spite of his small, weak frame, his great long neck, and his calfless legs, of which he writes: "And, oh, my calves, they might have done honour to a poodle!"
1907 — Frederic Courtland Penfield, East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan, The Century Co. (1907), page 140:
The native policeman is a human institution who explains himself. It is averred that he is loyal and efficient, but with his calfless legs bared to the knee and feet shod in sandals, he looks a queer cousin of Fifth Avenue's "Finest" and of the "Bobby" of London.