ancles

Mrs Mears, however, when applied to, professed an equal aversion to the carriage in which she had been so unfortunate, and declared she would rather walk than return to it, though one of her ancles was already so swelled that she could hardly stand.

Cecilia 2008

Because, being a lazy person, she has thick ancles sic, or being a scraggy person, she has skinny ones, which her vanity forbids her to exhibit.

June 2008 2008

Because, being a lazy person, she has thick ancles sic, or being a scraggy person, she has skinny ones, which her vanity forbids her to exhibit.

Dust Ho! - A Dress A Day 2008

She led the way; and I, helping myself by the banisters, made shift to get up with less fatigue than I expected from ancles so weak.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I beg pardon (replied the Doctor) I perceive your ancles are swelled, and you seem to have the facies leucophlegmatica.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

I ventured to undress, and had already stepped in to my ancles in the water, and had brought my hands together for a glorious dive, when my attention was attracted by an enormously long body which shot into view, occupying the spot beneath the surface that I was about to explore by a

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

She wears her native dress — a large, stiff, flat cane hat, like a tray, fastened firmly on or to her head; a scanty loose frock of blue denim down to her knees, wide trousers of the same down to her ancles, and slippers.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Their dress consisted of a muddy-white cotton shirt, reaching to the ancles, girdled with a leather belt thickly studded with silver bosses.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

My clothes were soaked when we reached the rocks, and Upa, very wet, carried us into a wet whale-boat, with water up to our ancles, which brought us over a heavy sickening swell into this steamer, which is dirty as well as wet.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

It has a horn in front, a low peak behind, large wooden stirrups with leathern flaps the length of the stirrup-leathers, to prevent the dress from coming in contact with the horse, and strong guards of hide which hang over and below the stirrup, and cover it and the foot up to the ancles, to prevent the feet or boots from being torn in riding through the bush.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004