Walking poles; birds

Usage examples of stilts.

Topical satire, evidently, thought Doyle—for he'd seen a clown on stilts several times during the course of the morning, here and there around the market, and this puppet was a duplicate of him, right down to the somewhat nightmarish patterns of face paint.

Even the Horrabin puppet was dancing on its stilts, and Doyle was awed to think of the contortions the puppeteer must have been going through to keep three puppets dancing and the music going too.

It was the same clown he'd seen stumping about the market on stilts earlier, the model of the Horrabin puppet.

Horrabin, once again on stilts, was striding away, pulling behind him a wagon that was apparently the booth itself, collapsed and folded up.

The dwarf carried the stilts to the nearest wall and leaned them against the bricks, leaving the clown swinging free a dozen feet off the ground.

A white conical hat topped a head like a decorated Easter egg, and Doyle gasped, spun around and ran, hearing the knocking of the pursuing stilts on the pavement.

And it wasn't deflected and it didn't stop inches away from him—it tore right through, and the clown was bleeding like a ripped wineskin and almost fell off his stilts, and if the gypsy'd been able to get a second swing he'd have put Horrabin right out of the picture.

The dwarf actually crossed himself before placing both hands against Horrabin's stilts and shoving.

Ten students were gathered around Paul Turner, who was up on ten-foot-high stilts and walking smoothly around the room.

The class laughed nervously as Turner went over to some shorter stilts that were leaning against a wall.

Clowns and other performers moved back and forth between dressing rooms and prop rooms, and prop people carried stilts and toy cars toward the freight elevator.

He had once tried a smaller pair of stilts back in the Emerald City and had fallen hard upon his helmet, and he could not help but admire the clever way in which these fellows got about on the unwieldy poles.

As Sir Hokus continued to watch, the two travelers, reaching their own house, which was on an exact level with their feet, stepped off their stilts and, leaving them standing against the tree, went in and slammed the door.

Before the door stood six Mud Guards, their stilts held stiffly before them.

At sight of Sir Hokus, all six dropped their stilts and stared at him so fixedly that his grip upon his sword tightened and he quietly reached for his battle-axe.