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“President Putin and I have been discussing various things, and I think it’s going very well,” Mr. Trump said at the start of the meeting, as both men sat spraddle-legged in chairs arranged side by side.

His hindparts shiver with the usual joyful, mindless ache to mount whatever happens near—the storm piling up black towers to the west, some rotting, docile stump, some spraddle-legged ewe.

I had to sit down in Miss Lacy’s chair spraddle-legged.

In “Cantiñas” Ms. Carrasco struggled with the long white train of her dress, but the ungainly effort was endearing, in accord with the breast-grabbing, spraddle-legged lustiness of her performance.

A few bought canned stuff from the general store at the roadside, walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized.