A slim waist and shapely legs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Walter Pater, to whom the beauty of the human form, and therefore of sculpture, was especially appealing, loved to use such terms as "shapely," "comely," "blythe," "gracious,". From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Some might not have thought Thusnelda's body shapely. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Gertie wore lovely button boots, shapely if not sensible. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The hunters shook the small, shapely hand with genuine pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
Another shapely three hundred feet mast had been manufactured and erected. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
She was sheathed in radiant white samite that clung to her shapely curves. From Wordnik.com. [I can have my dream house, at least until I wake up] Reference
If your partner is apt to open light, shapely hands, bid only 2NT to invite. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge] Reference
He admired her shapely, narrow-hipped rear end, which she kept turned to him. From Wordnik.com. [Protagonist Unbound] Reference
"I can't say that I blame them," Keturah Wood shrugged her shapely shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
Casting the sheet aside, her shapely legs were barely visible in the dark room. From Wordnik.com. [Faithful Still] Reference
She was shapely and you could tell her body had benefited from having children. From Wordnik.com. [What are we made of?] Reference
It was easily seen Tanrade was envious of this charity from one shapely little hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
He spoke evenly, but his eyes met Winnie's across Mrs. Willis 'shapely drooping head. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
A pair of intensely blue eyes were fixed on him, and red shapely lips seemed to smile. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Have him set up, Terlan; it's the most shapely fellow I ever saw taken out of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
His hands were white and firm, the fingers long and shapely, the hands of a brain worker. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
She was lying on a lounge by the fire, with her delicate hands clasped over her shapely head. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Butter was callow and fey, a moon child, peaches and cream, as shapely as any Hollywood ingénue. From Wordnik.com. [The The Three Sisters] Reference
The sunhat had been worn by a shapely young woman in swimming tights, who had rushed off into the house. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
The just-completed regular season was, after all, as shapely as an equipment sack full of shoulder pads. From Wordnik.com. [Win One For The Clipper] Reference
It's a nice shapely, thrifty tree about seven years old and only recently came into bearing to any extent. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
The shapely little head shook so vigorously that each tight ring of short, brown hair bobbed emphatically. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
Vistas of shapely diamond-chequered trunks stretched away in every direction, in long and shady perspective. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
His choreography features male dancers scrambling low to the ground then exploding in shapely leaps and falls. From Wordnik.com. [Debra Levine: American Master Choreographer Jack Cole Feted at Jacob's Pillow] Reference
I would guarantee to produce as shapely a structure out of a stuffed bread bag with a spun-yarn around its middle. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Two beautiful eyes, a satin skin, white teeth, and a shapely foot and hand are of such positive and inestimable value!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In those unsubtle commercials, brawny men pump iron while shapely women ooze sweat as they strut through high-impact aerobics. From Wordnik.com. [Rx: Thirty Minutes On The Stairmaster Twice Weekly] Reference
He had golden hair in little curls, and laughing blue eyes, a face fair of colour and fine of curve, and a proud shapely nose. From Wordnik.com. [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference
So does Aura Estrada, a shapely waitress who used to be a leftist guerrilla in this Central American country's recent civil war. From Wordnik.com. [Christina García's "The Lady Matador's Hotel," reviewed by Carolyn See] Reference
It is to stir them up and make you strong, and at the same time supple and shapely, that I have devised this series of exercises. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Her night-black tresses were gathered in two wide braids at the back of her shapely head, so long that they reached below her waist. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Three or four wide low steps lead on to a capacious white marble verandah, the lofty roof of which is supported by shapely pillars with. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference
Yeah, you might be intimidated by magazine photos of lithe, shapely yoginis and muscular, limber yogis bent in seemingly impossible poses. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Goldberg: It's Yoga Month: Give Yourself a Break and Stretch Your Mind] Reference
The lawyer, with a startled, although amused, expression on his professional face; the daughter with a cold smile and an almost imperceptible nod of her shapely, Junoesque head. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
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