A company representative, having examined his NHS notes, insisted that a historical reference to leg pain proved that the patient had lied about the exact year his varicose veins began to trouble him.
It also reappeared in the pottery of early historical periods, but with shorter legs.
His heavy trudge on a game leg suggests weariness of historical dimensions; the harmonious mysteries of the urban landscape are themselves the essence of his art.
Certainly, compared with most towns of its size, Matewan's violent historical legacy gives it a vital leg-up on the competition.
Paying attention to historical trends can give you a leg up.
He said he wanted the leg because it was "part of a historical moment".
Even before the time when SDLP delegates were showing more than a bit of leg to Fianna Fáil there were deep-seated historical and organisational problems with a merger.
Straddling historical and contemporary cuisines was a (remarkably un-gamey) goose-leg confit with apples, buttery mashed potatoes with sage, chestnuts with roast carrots and swiss chard, and one of the most tender and flavorful chickens I've ever eaten.
It eventually metamorphosed from a historical account of the battle into a biography of Wooden Leg, Marquis' principal informant.
Nevertheless, repeated extraction was not possible for all specimens since sometimes only one leg had been plucked (common among studies on historical insect specimens: [ 17, 19, 22]).
