A gangling teenager. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The burly man spoke lucidly to his gangling adversary. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
A gangling boy ran into the room from a back corridor. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
It tossed that card like a coin from its gangling talon tips. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
He was tall and gangling, dark-skinned, originally from Ethiopia. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Worthington: Who Is Binyam Mohamed, The British Resident Released From Guantanamo?] Reference
My kibitzer came stalking out of the building, gangling and gawky. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
Meder's gangling form sprawled half on, half beside the black throne. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The hotel manager looked at the tall gangling policeman with affection. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
Called Motti by his friends, he had the gangling awkwardness of his age. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
Tex smiled back at Peter Marlowe and stretched his gangling six-foot three. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
They gazed at me as she came up, gangling as a hound-pup and as tenderly made. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
The children giggled as they watched a tall, gangling boy come up the gangway. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship of Adventure]
Pandro flinched, taken aback by the gangling young human's unexpected enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
They also had gangling arms as long as an orangutan's but relatively modern hands. From Wordnik.com. [New Face in Human Family Tree] Reference
A quiet, almost gangling figure offstage, Guerra is a lightning rod in performance. From Wordnik.com. [Crossover Dreamers] Reference
He blinked at the tall, gangling Kevenoe, who was still out of breath from running. From Wordnik.com. [The Destroyers] Reference
Their driver, a gangling boy in fancy Texas-style boots, springs to open the doors. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
He was tall, thin, and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet, and a long nose. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]
The superintendent leaned back in his chair and surveyed the tall, gangling sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
He came out to meet them at the porch, with a gangling boy of about twelve by the hand. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Royan recognized Tamre, his long gangling frame standing a head above the boys around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
He blinked big blue eyes in the sunlight and wriggled his gangling form with embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
Many of us remember him as a tall, gangling youth, full of fun and always ready for a lark. From Wordnik.com. [Alex La Guma] Reference
Once there, he altered his form, was again the tall and gangling, balding, velvet-coated Sartan. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Gate]
He leaned back on the bed which was soft and almost long enough to accommodate his gangling frame. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
He remembered Ptolemy as a gangling youth, hoisting the child Alexander up on his horse for a ride. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
A tall, gangling grease-monkey came in, blinked around obviously awed by the assembly of top brass. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
He was a gangling youth with big ears and a bent nose and contented eyes, and he was tall, very tall. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
The second of the three was a gangling kid who probably never gave me a second look, let alone a third. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
Johnny Coombs was a tall man, so thin he was almost gangling, with a long nose and shaggy eyebrows jutting out over his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
Crane, who is tall and gangling and pleasant to be around, says the notion that he could refuse never really entered his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Book on Iraq] Reference
A gangling young man, swart-faced, fired by the contending crosses of alcoholic concoctions which he had swallowed, approached. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The tall man turned his back on the astronomy and propped his gangling form against the rail, his visored face seeking the aliens. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
“Four more ready, Gil,” he said as a gangling youth in orange-and-gold coveralls swung a wire carrier through the serving window. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
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