He recollects himself as he was at the time, young and gamesome; and forgets that his hearers have no other idea of the hero of the tale, but such as he may appear at the time of telling it; peradventure, a withered, whimsical, spindle-Shanked old gentleman.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
There were Japs at balconies of low two-storied doll-houses, silhouetted against lamplight which shone through their red fans and pink kimonos, and other shabby houses with spindle-Shanked darker natives, in white draperies, also some larger people dimly seen, on long chairs, who my friend said, were probably French-European at least.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
The fire still smoldered, and the spindle-Shanked dressing-table, with the glass set in its mahogany frame, cast unearthly shadows on the floor in the half-light.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell