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broken its leg or because a little
He has whipped my father several times on account of a lost ewe, or a goat which had broken its leg, or because a little milk was spilled in the cheese-making season.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

but in length of back and limb
Feasting like this and in the joys of freedom, many had grown to a truly enormous size, not in fat, as the domestic animal does, but in length of back and limb.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

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