When the little man arrived she began with Kasper, Melchior, Belshazzer, Sheepshanks, Cruickshanks, spindleshanks, and so on through the long list.
"Journeys Through Bookland V2"
Charles H. Sylvester
To think I feared you once, old spindleshanks!
"Krindlesyke"
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Eleven years of age, she had at last begun to grow in earnest: her legs were as of old mere spindleshanks, but nearly twice as long; and her fat little body, perched above them, made one think of a shrivelled-up old man who has run all to paunch.
"The Getting of Wisdom"
Henry Handel Richardson