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Examples
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The biggest buck I saw all year walked up to it, sniffed, and stiff-legged it back where he came from.
Trail Cams Lie (and Three More Lessons from a Great Deer) 2009
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The biggest buck I saw all year walked up to it, sniffed, and stiff-legged it back where he came from.
Trail Cams Lie (and Three More Lessons from a Great Deer) 2009
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The horse went into a reluctant and stiff-legged gallop, while Jerry followed, snarling and growling wrath at so high a pitch that almost he squalled.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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I walk stiff-legged and climb the stairs I went down so hastily.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Instead, walking stiff-legged and circumspectly, but smelling with all his nose the strange scent of the creatures, he followed at the end of his chain his own captor god.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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They bristled up to him, stiff-legged and challenging, while he, wasting no time on elaborate preliminaries, snapping into action like a steel spring, was at their throats and destroying them before they knew what was happening and while they were yet in the throes of surprise.
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I walk stiff-legged and climb the stairs I went down so hastily.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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But I could see she was in agony with each stiff-legged step.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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There was a death-struggle, during which White Fang walked around, stiff-legged and observant.
The Famine 2010
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Jerry suddenly crouched and began to stalk stiff-legged.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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