In relation to the room he was quite tall, long-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
She was over six feet tall, long-limbed, and very slim. From Wordnik.com. [Running Blind]
They were long-limbed, longheaded, with huge myopic eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
"There is one other thing, " she told her long-limbed companion. From Wordnik.com. [Drowning World]
She saw him standing in front of her, long-limbed, erect of mien. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
She was long-limbed, clean-limbed, quick of mind and of body. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
She was near as tall as he was, long-limbed and limber as a willow wand. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
Stretching like a long-limbed cat, June looked at herself in the mirror. From Wordnik.com. [two women]
The man with the dancing eyes was a painter (a long-limbed brilliant one). From Wordnik.com. [2003-06-23 : *the man with the dancing eyes*] Reference
Even as he spoke, long-limbed Cocytans were striding past Low on either side. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
A tall man stood there, tall even by the standards of the long-limbed Afghan. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
The student was long-limbed and gangly, bent forward with the eagerness of youth. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Forecast by Stephan Faris] Reference
Sam stopped taking pictures and took a couple of long-limbed strides towards her. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Partners]
Wanda was a bold vision tall, long-limbed, and lithe, achingly beautiful, and black. From Wordnik.com. [Gone for Good]
Darleen Druyun is in her mid-fifties, tall and long-limbed, with dark-brown hair and eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane] Reference
Three of the four shadows were as long-limbed and graceful as the Companions that threw them. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Promise]
As the long-limbed gleeman scrambled down the ladder from the loft, Lan spoke, stiffly formal. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
Marfan patients grow up to be unusually tall and long-limbed, with dangerously enlarged aortas. From Wordnik.com. [DIY DNA: One Father's Attempt to Hack His Daughter's Genetic Code] Reference
She was as tall as her brother - both slightly under six feet - wide-shouldered and long-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
Thereupon the long-limbed clerk verified the taunt of "counter-jumper" by clearing it at a bound. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
His powerful, long-limbed body would have loomed a full two meters tall did it not slant forward. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
There were monkeys, too; cunning creatures with bold eyes and scolding voices, agile and long-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
He watched her walk from the room, the long-limbed grace of her body another reminder that he was free. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
The long-limbed, long-faced, long-tongued man left the ranks and obsequiously greeted his spiritual father. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Mat Cauthon, long-limbed as a stork, wearing a half smile as if he saw something funny that no one else saw. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
She was long-limbed, slender, with heavy burned-gold hair, a skin which was pale gold after a July by the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Smoldering, long-limbed, and equipped with … a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanities Girls] Reference
Mr. Randolph's impossibly long-limbed frame has a certain Inspector Gadget quality, which used to be even more pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [He's Long, Lean, Unlimited] Reference
This is the company I keep: long-limbed, tree-climbing ankle-biters, sugary sons and dangerous daughters of the fruit canners. From Wordnik.com. [forestry] Reference
Year after year, the arrival of the long-limbed ladies of the Rockettes has signaled the start of the festive season in New York. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007] Reference
He was long-bodied and very long-limbed, and having been brought up in camp, his motion had all the stiffness of the marching step. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
In nakedness more resplendant than any satins or silks, long-limbed, full-breasted and sleek, Synelle allowed them to minister to her. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Triumphant]
For days he had been upon his way, traversing the snows with the easy, long-limbed hillman's stride that eats up the mountainous miles. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
To them she looked as if the soul of a grandmother had taken possession of a thin, long-limbed body which ought to belong to a girl of ten. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
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