Every rib in the round body was discernible; yet the leanness was the healthful reduction so strained after in the palaestrae. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
The state ranks first for the "leanness" of its population and first for the ACT/SAT scores its high school graduates achieve. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
A man may have leanness of body and soul together. From Wordnik.com. [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference
The leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Turkey's leanness robs the meatloaf of flavor and moisture. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Cavillones: Practice Makes Perfect] Reference
Moreover, the very leanness of the famous official appealed to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The meat's outstanding characteristics are its tenderness and leanness. From Wordnik.com. [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference
“I was thinking less of their leanness than of their smell,” I returned. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
Symptoms are either of body or mind; of body, paleness, leanness, dryness, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
As regards his leanness, O royal sage, I can say that I have never beheld its like. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
He also wore a girdle round his body, which rendered his leanness still more striking. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The old age of Pantaloon is marked by his leanness, and his spectacles and his slippers. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
There was a gaunt leanness about him which I am satisfied no amount of food could ever fatten. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
He was still sleeping quietly, but Sam was now struck most by the leanness of his face and hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
O Pork! what could campaigners do without thy fatness, thy leanness, thy saltness, thy portableness? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Hence are those complaints among many of their leanness, their weakness, their deadness, their barrenness. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
They score meat quality, leanness and butchering technique in detail; then, meat experts grade their work. From Wordnik.com. [What's the Beef?] Reference
He excused himself and his companions by pleading necessity, and his leanness lent conviction to the plea. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
She was tall and slim, almost to leanness, but there were no awkward angles and she was as graceful as a fawn. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
But I have come to realize that I have been disobeying Him, and thus brought darkness and leanness into my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine Booth — a Sketch] Reference
I found, to my sorrow, that these omissions produced poverty of soul, and often cried, "O, my leanness! my leanness!". From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
But I have come to realize that I have been disobeying Him, and thus have brought darkness and leanness into my soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
Even so, she was concerned at his perpetual leanness, with no substantial belly that his wealth and position merited. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
In the first half of my stay, I was astounded by the leanness of the news coverage of Iran which was biblically vast. From Wordnik.com. [Roya Hakakian: The Feast and Famine of Iran Coverage in U.S. Media] Reference
Now one of the most common complaints among Christians of all denominations, is because of their weakness and their leanness. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Holiness] Reference
Drew, and his body had the leanness of the men who worked the range country, possessing, too, a lithe youthfulness of carriage. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
He was tall, this quiet man, his great height accented by a fit leanness, a narrowness of waist and hip, a length of leg and arm. From Wordnik.com. [Voodoo Planet] Reference
His hair was cropped close like a convict's, which accentuated the leanness of his face and the taut, rigid lines about his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Four Days The Story of a War Marriage] Reference
He was leaning back in his chair, his white shirt pulled taut across his chest, his dark jacket emphasising the leanness of his body. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased For Revenge]
A figure was crouching before the large grate and by its leanness and greyness he knew that it was the dean of studies lighting the fire. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Long faces of the form pictured by No. 12 exaggerate the longness and leanness of their faces by wearing their locks like looped curtains. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
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