1 We're mighty limber when a hard wind's blowing, because we know it pays to be limber.
2 But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
3 It was of a conical shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the right-whale.
4 Now this was written at a time when the black limber bone of the Greenland or Right whale was largely used in ladies' bodices.
5 He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached and hurriedly removed.
6 Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes and artillerymen's bonfires.
7 "Yes, yes," muttered Bagration as if considering something, and he rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon.
8 Among the limbers lay several dead men.