all knees and elbows
all elbows

All knees and elbows, like a colt that grew too fast.

He was all knees and elbows in the field and had a tendency to trip.

He was a skinny boy, all knees and elbows and eyes too large in a narrow face.

He scrambled along, all knees and elbows, with me holding in place listening for further clunks.

Manda with her coltish walk, all knees and elbows like a twelve-year-old boy.

They were all knees and elbows.

He was a very tall, thin man, and he seemed even taller sitting down, all knees and elbows.

He was tall-a full two heads taller than Joey-and skinny, all knees and elbows.

She was smart and active, although she seemed disorganized, all knees and elbows.

Sitting low in the ancient armchair, all knees and elbows, he looked as delicate as a stick insect.

Hes slender and ungainly and is all knees and elbows.

When taking his seat, it was as if he folded into a chair, all knees and elbows and abnormally large hands and feet.

It was all knees and elbows; it carried a sack over one shoulder and held a lantern in its other hand.

She seemed to be all knees and elbows, writhing muscularly in his arms as if she very much did not want to be there.

He had flopped down beside her, all knees and elbows, and with his large warm hands began to caress her.

Snipers who could riddle Leo as he tried to scramble from the trunk, all knees and elbows in the crucial instant when surprise evaporated.

In other words it was like holding meetings with O'Brien locked out Dawlish was all knees and elbows.

We were worried about you," said Cozcatl, who was no longer a little boy, but had grown to adolescence, all knees and elbows and gawky awkwardness. "

It wasn't at all pleasant, as I said, and I didn't realize how bony he was, all knees and elbows, even his chin was sharp.

I swarmed over him like six All-Black forwards and behaved much the same way, all knees and elbows, gouging and thumping.

City-bred, Bothari was no horseman, and seemed all knees and elbows despite what cavalry training Piotr had managed to inflict on him in the months of his service.

But they also seem to be all knees and elbows, an army of little people who cannot stop sticking one another in the ribs and slapping one another in the face.

He rolled to his left and came up shooting, spotting one of them in the open, charging up the hill, all knees and elbows, slamming him back down the slope with half a dozen rounds.

Through the gauzy modesty drape over the zhavey's kheth, Shar saw the howling infant thrashing about in its nurture pouch, all knees and elbows, pushing the zhavey's pouch skin taut.

As a kid Shadow had been small for his age, all elbows and knees.

Sheffield followed after, his long body all elbows and knees as he made a path.

They were often all elbows, very impatient and demanding.

Jeffrey followed in an awkward scramble, all elbows and knees.

Grace, all elbows and knees, slept fitfully next to him.

As well, all elbows can be operated with on/off systems, such as switches.

One by one, they have an attraction, but brought together, they're all elbows and angles.

She is all elbows in social interactions, showing little tolerance for customers who don't understand her creations.

It makes you want to dance, in a silly, uncool way, all elbows and knees.

Defended tightly, often by two opponents, she was all elbows and sneers.

As you try to step off, several people, all elbows and knees, bull their way past and into the train.

You're a lock - tall, ugly, all elbows and knees - start using them.

The body twists in segments, softly but mechanically, all elbows and knees.

The elbow was dubbed by Don Cherry as "the mother of all elbows."

Henry was all elbows and knees, conducting himself with a sullen-younger-brother belligerence.

It is all elbows, but gradually, thin slivers of sense can be read in the great industrial bricolage.

Andrew Trimble All elbows and knees but very little coherent progress.

She was a thin girl, all elbows and angles, but was an interesting shape for all that.

He's all elbows and hips, bumping and poking, Thompson had said.

There was Mutombo, all elbows and desire, exchanging words with Duncan.

And poor Molly stood here, all elbows and knees, joyful about the prospect of supper?

When last seen, he had been a coltish boy of eighteen, all elbows and knees, not yet in full command of his body.

He righted himself, all elbows and long legs, and leaned against Brondt for support.

"I remember 13 being all elbows and knees," Mr. Hanks said.

A big, gangling lad all elbows and knees.