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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I walk stiff-legged and climb the stairs I went down so hastily.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Enemy of His Kind 2010

  • I walk stiff-legged and climb the stairs I went down so hastily.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • But I could see she was in agony with each stiff-legged step.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • There was a death-struggle, during which White Fang walked around, stiff-legged and observant.

    The Famine 2010

  • Jerry suddenly crouched and began to stalk stiff-legged.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

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