Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...
In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant-the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.
No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Halo Properties decided to donate it to us and gave us six months to move it. We have the station on stilts ready to go, but we've had to wait on good weather.
Drunkenness is when the tongue walks on stilts and reason goes forward under half a sail.
We're definitely going to miss Cody Stilts with his shooting. Cody was basically our best shooter all year. ... Justin Townsend really came on here at the end of the year and played real well for us. He definitely asserted himself and made a great player for us.
We saw one house that was picked up and thrown about a quarter mile from its stilts and landed on the other side of the road.
It's the tallest house in the neighborhood, because it's up on stilts, you know, pilings, and most of these houses are not. They're on slabs, and consequently those people really got hurt.
It is nonsense on stilts and seemingly the work of a desperate journalist...
The children will do acrobatics, juggling, ride unicycles, walk on stilts and perform as clowns, The Humming Mosquito.
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