But all this struggling had loosened the palisades, and there were one or two openings in them through which the thin-bodied Spaniards, pushed on by their comrades, were able to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

The small clerk was a thin-bodied, weak-minded, timid boy, of about twelve years of age and of humble origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication] Reference

For old maids, like old thin-bodied wines, instead of growing more agreeable by years, are observed, for the most part, to become intolerably sharp, sour, and useless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish] Reference

First of all, there came early in the summer the thin-bodied ones, some of a steely-blue, some dark with clear wings, and with them those with the wings clouded with dark patches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser] Reference

And it was this difference in the matter of age, and, consequently, in the matter of size, that explained why, at first sight, he did not show how thin-bodied he was, but seemed, instead, to be rather a stout little boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference

For the last three years we in America have had transmitted glimpses of a thin-bodied, lonesome, wifeless, childless, very old man, lying on a sofa, kept out of bed by indomitable will, but, of late, never well enough to take the open air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

Darting about over the pond were hundreds of dragon-flies, thin-bodied blue or green fellows, with bright transparent wings, that seemed invisible at times, so rapid was their vibration; while every now and then, rustling upon the wing as they dashed about in chase of one another, came the larger dragon-flies, to make brighter the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home] Reference

"thin-bodied;" and hence a deformed child or an emaciated person has acquired in the Tamil districts the same epithet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

Ultimately a little too thin-bodied and weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference