He was light-boned and thin for a ten-year-old, but still awfully heavy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

A small, slim woman, obviously light-boned and supple, she seemed to move forward like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest Builder] Reference

Sometimes the work was almost too much for the light-boned, underfed girl but she always managed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beast Master's Circus]

This lady was light-boned, thin, and bent with rheumatism, but bright-eyed as the sparrow she so strongly resembled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

Gwyllyn was an insignificant-looking man, light-boned and mousy-haired, but you didn't see him once he began to sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference

No way of getting an exact weight for her, unfortunately-but she couldn't weigh more than seven stone, small and light-boned as she was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

The people she saw were tall, light-boned, dark-skinned and wide-chested, with long hair in various hues that they wore interlaced with thin braids enhanced by colorful yarn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

A lithe and light-boned young man who was the very image of Kipling's version of Puck, right down to ears that gave an impression of being pointed, and artistically tousled dark hair, waited indolently on the threshold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children Of The Night]

Often he forgot how small she was, how light-boned and fragile, but at times like thistimes when he wanted to put his arms around herhe was restrained by the thought that holding her too hard might hurt her, especially now when he no longer knew his own strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Ashes] Reference

Even the characteristic sheep of the region, the light-boned, longhaired Navajo-Churros, are said to have arrived here with the forces of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, who claimed this region for the Spanish crown in 1540 on a doomed sweep through the Southwest looking for the Seven Cities of Gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference