Bill Stanley was on the couch, a fat ankle resting on a fat knee, and read over the papers Taylor had found in Clayton's office.

As he sat there, completely at ease in the low couch, boots crossed at the ankles and elbows resting on knees, his eyes never left the face of the Captain of the Temple Lancers.

He sat down in a casual manner, his left ankle resting on his right knee, showing a large expanse of sock patterned jazzily and two inches of hairy leg.

He had one ankle resting on t'other knee; the boot on that foot was busted, and two of his toes stuck through, and he worked them now and then.

Carlos sat comfortably in Friar Montero's leather chair, with his ankles resting on the fine, oaken desk.

He was sitting slightly forward in the red vinyl chair, his right ankle resting on his left knee.

A woman lies in front of him on the examination table, her legs extending out from under a torn sheet, the ankles resting in stirrups.

Barefoot, he sat with one ankle resting atop another on a hassock.

And she would mutter whatever she could dredge up about geometry or Arabic or history or anbarology, and he would sit back with one ankle resting on the other knee and watch her inscrutably until her words failed.

The legs were crossed in that attitude that only an Englishman adopts---with the right ankle resting on the left knee and the left hand grasping the ankle.