Gazing past the slim-bodied cynic, Oskar squinted. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
So can slim-bodied nymphs, such as the Flashback Pheasant Tail. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Fishing for Trout in Winter] Reference
They were slim-bodied birds, long, not at all configured like yard turkeys. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Long-tailed and slim-bodied, with short, rounded wings instantly spelled out cuckoo in my mind; which one, I have no idea though I suspected Yellow-billed!. From Wordnik.com. [Gestalt at 70 MPH] Reference
A truly blood-thirsty member of that slim-bodied but active race, the weasel tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
An open piece of swamp land, fringed by tamarack and slim-bodied spruce, promised fair for his scheme. From Wordnik.com. [The Outcasts] Reference
At the far end of the room where the kerosene lamp light was none too good Rios was standing with a solitary slim-bodied companion. From Wordnik.com. [Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure] Reference
That night they crossed the river at another ford, and slept in a bluff of slim-bodied white poplars, for they were on the edge of the North timber lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Outcasts] Reference
Pre-PMA 2006: Olympus has announced two new additions to the weatherproof Stylus (Mju) range in the form of the slim-bodied Stylus 700 and the Stylus 810 Digital - a minor upgrade to the current Stylus 800. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
No one guessed that the old peer sat and listened to stories of a red-headed, slim-bodied girl in a dingy New York boarding-house, that he liked them sufficiently to encourage their telling, that he had made a mental picture of a certain look in a pair of maternally yearning and fearfully convincing round young eyes, that he knew the burnished fullness and glow of the red hair until he could imagine the feeling of its texture and abundant warmth in the hand. From Wordnik.com. [T. Tembarom] Reference
She is seventeen, café au lait -- beaucoup de lait, kohl-eyed, meter-tressed, and slim-bodied. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
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