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... Pythagoras's system of philosophy. His love of outward show and stratagem was also said to be derived from Pythagoras, for as the latter tamed an eagle and made it alight upon him, and when walking through the crowd at Olympia showed his golden thigh, and did all the other surprising devices which made Timon of Phlius write ...

— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch

... said Sir John. "If we find him at all, we shall find him lying at the bottom." And he slapped his great hand upon his great thigh, ...

— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley

... did not entirely escape; the spears came whistling through the crevice, and one of them lodged in my leg just below the thigh. ...

— Under the Andes • Rex Stout

... he his mighty spear. Through the bright shield it went, and through the shining breastplate, tearing the tunic of Paris on his thigh. But Paris swerved aside, ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) - Classic Tales And Old-Fashioned Stories • Various

... camp; for they had not dared to leave their trenches. The French, seeing themselves pressed in this way, entered into the battle. Great was the melee. The artillery of the French continued all the while to fire upon the English troops, and so well that a stone striking Talbot broke his thigh. The English seeing their chief on the ground, believing him dead, and recognising that the French were the stronger in artillery and in the number of men, lost courage, fell into disorder, and only thought of saving themselves. The French, on the contrary, took heart ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

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