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with hands on hips and elbows extending outward

She stood there akimbo.

She was now standing arms akimbo, her shoulders drooping a little, her head cocked to one side, her glasses winking in the sunlight.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

akimbo = with hands on hips and elbows extending outward

Pyotr jumped on the box, and putting his arms akimbo, told the coachman to drive to the booking-office.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
Kaleb Wallace and his brother Thurston, his left arm hanging akimbo at his side, pounded the front door with their rifle butts.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Now fatigued, the astronaut stood with arms akimbo, looking up at the sleek lines of the engineering marvel before him.
Andy Weir -- The Martian
The widow, standing on the porch with buttery arms akimbo, yammered after the fleeing girl: "And don't you dare show your face on this block again.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
She stood on the high step-edge, with a cloth wound over her head, her gaunt arms, pitted with old scars, akimbo.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
He stood arms akimbo in the market entrance and did not recognize Mr. MacLain who had repaired his watch at all, that little drudge.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Suppose the house were sold (she stood arms akimbo in front of the looking-glass) it would want seeing to—it would.
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
The exclusively personal attention which he devoted to each one, standing half bent, ear to one side, elbows akimbo, saying: "Soup—green turtle, yes.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
He stood there arms akimbo and said, "I see, I see."
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
"Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms akimbo, "what are you driving at?
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
He had stopped his pretense of working; he was standing before her, arms akimbo, dark eyes demanding.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
And what they saw was something akimbo and arustle in the down-hung wicker carriage.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
Mrs. O'Dowd put herself with arms akimbo before the bedroom door.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
With her arms akimbo, she hugged her shawl about her shoulders defiantly.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Crouching like that, she's like a doll, an old one that's been pillaged and discarded, in some corner, akimbo.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
The whole airport went akimbo with excitement.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
He frowns at me for a moment, arms akimbo.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants

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