Adjective, : lank grass; lank, leafless trees. From Dictionary.com.
"Be seated, if you will," Yakow said, and folded his lankness down. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
I'll even stop washing my hair, just to ensure the requisite lankness. From Wordnik.com. [The Cold and Ugly Light of Truth: Special MFA Edition] Reference
The lankiness of limb, and the lankness of feature and hair, sufficiently pleasing in poor. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
No. 65., with the long, wrinkled neck and sharply lined face is unbecomingly costumed in the V-shaped basque and corsage which apparently elongate her natural lankness. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
Quixote of La Mancha was that a man of that sort and shape he had never yet seen; he marvelled at the length of his hair, his lofty stature, the lankness and sallowness of his countenance, his armour, his bearing and his gravity — a figure and picture such as had not been seen in those regions for many a long day. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
Here rich men come, and cannot hide their lankness and their poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
She leaned the rocker back and crossed her knees, the movement throwing into high relief the hard lankness of her figure. From Wordnik.com. [No Clue A Mystery Story] Reference
There was, besides, a degree of lankness in the faces of the two men, the very reverse of the plump, round, oily cheeks of those we had before seen. From Wordnik.com. [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1] Reference
The oval of the brow, the soft brown eyes, the smile haunting the thick lips and the lankness of cheek combined to form the typically tuberculous countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey] Reference
Mutimers in physical completeness; already he was nearly as tall as his eldest brother; and, even in his lankness, showed the beginnings of well-proportioned vigour. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
There was a baleful light of intellect in the child's eye, and a preponderance of forehead combined with a certain lankness of hair betrayed, I fancy, an ingenuous academical origin. From Wordnik.com. [At Large] Reference
The gravity of his dress, together with a certain lankness of cheek and stiffness of deportment, added nearly ten years to his age, but his figure was that of one not yet past thirty. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge]
To some, such a revelation of grace and womanliness in this hoyden, the gentle swelling of lankness to beauty, of lowliness to shy self-poise, was a sudden joy, to others a mere blindness. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel] Reference
Hard raking for two weeks procured us about four dozen chickens (marvels of lankness,). which the steward always dispatched with trembling eagerness to prevent dissolution from inanition, as they always seemed on the very verge of it when brought aboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.] Reference
The necessary physiology of a cylindrical hair is lankness and straightness; that of the oval renders it imperative that it shall wave, or curl, or flow, in its course; but the eccentrically elliptical hair, in obedience to the law of its nature, is crisped, spiral, or woolly. From Wordnik.com. [Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,] Reference
There are isolated peasant communities in Europe who have kept for centuries the most uncouth and inconvenient attire, while we have run through a dozen variations in the art of attraction by dress, from the most puffed and bulbous ballooning to the extreme of limpness and lankness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
The lankness of her long figure showed in the calico wrapper which seemed her sole garment; and her large features were respectively lank in their way, nose and chin and high cheek bones; her eyes wabbled in their sockets with the sort of inquiring laughter that spread her wide, loose mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
Their dress -- Haworth had permitted itself to wonder at the uncouthness of those amazing leg-of-mutton sleeves (Emily's pet whim in and out of fashion), at the ill-cut lankness of those skirts, clumsy enough on round little Charlotte, but a very caricature of mediævalism on Emily's tall, thin, slender figure. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
What he in green thought of Don Quixote of La Mancha was that a man of that sort and shape he had never yet seen; he marvelled at the length of his hair, his lofty stature, the lankness and sallowness of his countenance, his armour, his bearing and his gravity -- a figure and picture such as had not been seen in those regions for many a long day. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 22] Reference
A fever, that the paleness of his Face, the lankness of his Cheeks, and thinness of his Calves, doth shew it most plainly. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
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