He quickly mastered it, pairing the sine-wave legs with the traditional arm movement of the breaststroke.
True to form, I touch my pen nib into the mouth of her silky bed and she immediately advances, all waving legs and open jaws.
By the end — a forest of waving legs as all the dancers hold headstands — the interest of the movement has been lost in the fuss and bother of the changing costumes, the changing music, the undifferentiated angst.
But then, she says, "he found a termite in my hair and got distracted, not returning his attention to me until its brittle waving legs were crunching between his teeth".
We gave the garden gnomes our neon shirts to better wave our legs in the air, petit-allegro-style giddy even though the sanguine gals don't menstruate it's all good, for the man says it keeps us quick on our backs.
They support themselves on one hand while waving their legs elegantly to the tune of their tuneless music.
If unchecked they would stand on their heads on the rear seat, waving their legs and screaming.
Barely to page three and there's "something feebly waving tiny legs, attached to a fat brown body".
They flail about waving their legs around, looking like they are in the final throes of a particularly vicious piranha attack.
"America was rolling over on its back and waving its legs in the air," she writes, "offering me its soft sentimental underbelly to rub".
If you're unsure about portions, waiters will happily bring your crab to the table to wave a leg at you.
