The worms were lashing themselves against the stilt legs of the stalker, which now moved with great care to avoid being thrown off balance.

The station swayed at first when he tried controlling the stilt legs by hand.

With the stilt legs of herons and the long graceful necks of swans, they were the strangest looking of all Africa's mammals.

The thing was vaguely manlike in form, in that it advanced on stilt legs.

Metaphorical stilt legs still hung beneath the oblong globe, waving slowly in space.

A tall wading bird, insubstantial as mist, flew through his body as he spoke, its stilt legs trailing behind it.

Both mother and daughter stood on their feet, Hannah's stilt legs sturdy for a one day old as she suckled her mother's teat.

A riveted metal tank on stilt legs showed freshly painted letters: AIRCRAFT FUEL "Chester, this place isn't abandoned."

This has seven pairs of stilt legs, and seven wormlike tentacles on top with tiny pincers.

It stalked unsteadily forward on tall stilt legs that might have been leg-bones, once upon a time.