A withered, fragile-looking figure approached them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Mission Moluk]

Her face was as white and fragile-looking as porcelain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

She was a small woman, pretty even in death, and fragile-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Breath You Take] Reference

He was a fragile-looking young man with an immediately angry face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willow] Reference

Still, the Maryland halftime lead was only a fragile-looking 31-25.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Tough shells carry Terps through rugged title game] Reference

One fragile-looking little girl sat, transfixed, watching the disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Otherworld]

Amenda, fragile-looking in divers 'blacks, appeared at the foot of the steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

Takpusseh found nothing that might protect the fragile-looking foreleg digits.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

I'm wondering if the increasingly fragile-looking McCain can handle even four.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain refuses to say if he's healthy enough to handle 8 years as president] Reference

Case watched her rotate between two fragile-looking stands studded with sensors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer]

The shafts splintered against and glanced off the fragile-looking armor of glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

He frowned down at the fragile-looking object with its intricate network of wires.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]

The slaver was not eased in mind when the fragile-looking insect stood his ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of The Matter]

Otto was a small, fragile-looking man with the tiniest fingers Myron had ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deal Breaker]

It came as a surprise to him to find her so tiny, so fragile-looking and yet so young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

Young or fragile-looking, she could cook, and she always had a pleasant, if shy, smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

Even white-haired Varney with his fragile-looking limbs was bracing himself for trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 24, 2008] Reference

Keman crept closer to the tiny, fragile-looking creature, wondering what he should do about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvenbane]

Hanging from the ribbon was a palm-sized medallion, barbaric against her fragile-looking throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]

A fragile-looking older man was testing various molecular bonding compounds on the cast-off trimmings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanctuary] Reference

It was hard to believe that someone so small and fragile-looking could turn his entire life inside out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

Oscar lowered himself into a fragile-looking chair near the miniature jelly-ice fire that blazed on the hearth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amaryllis] Reference

Twenty-two years of knowing the fragile-looking aliens hadn't prepared me for three days of watching television.    From Wordnik.com.  [Covergent Series]

The old woman, thin and fragile-looking, was curled up in the corner, sleeping with the light sleep of the very aged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Tower]

Bald and fragile-looking, Torvin was barely a year out of basic and still seemed intimidated by most of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference

To Penelope it seemed as though she had become immensely frailer and more fragile-looking in the passage of a single night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

Straight fair hair framed a fragile-looking face, and she regarded them seriously, as if her question had been more than rote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mourn Not Your Dead] Reference

We sat on his bed and Henry flipped through the fragile-looking pages of his thick album to find the picture he was looking for.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE EXTRA MAN] Reference

He looked back at them, the hot sunlight outlining the worn contours of his face, suddenly very fragile-looking in his faded black robe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Tower]

She began to change into a fleshy, enigmatically contoured insect, fragile-looking grappling claws crowning all six doubly jointed limbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

Through the glass, she saw a woman lying in the bed, a fragile-looking woman with white-blond hair and a face as colorless as the sheets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

He was a small, fragile-looking young man with a pale, intellectual face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

The fragile-looking child was evacuated by helicopter Nov. 8 with vomiting and diarrhea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleans.ca] Reference