He knew the slenderness of my wallet. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The slenderness of the evidence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I was still somewhat thin, but now it could be called slenderness, not thinness. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
HebrewPunk comes in at just under 150 large-print pages, but in part the slenderness is a function of the leanness of Tidhar’s style. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
Her slenderness was a charm. From Wordnik.com. [Camille] Reference
Her slenderness was rounded, her slimness soft and full. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
Then her white slenderness was crushed in his hungry arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
They had stolen some of his slenderness, and his hair was thin at the back. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
The word capillarity is of Latin derivation, and signifies hair-like slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
Similarly, a gold necklace with a jeweled pendant emphasized the slenderness of her neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
And beside the ambition of his aims one must say that his logic has an air of slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
By their slenderness and by simplicity of treatment they produce an effect of great height. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference
She looked at him, objectively, remembering when his ivory slenderness had appealed to her. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
What an armful she was, all softness and resilience and slenderness in miraculous proportions!. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
Perhaps it was the colouring, the skin tone, or the posture, or her slenderness, or perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
She was tall with a lithe slenderness that betokened well-poised strength rather than fragility. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Her plum-coloured redingote with its absurd collar arched like a sail emphasised her slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
He was very erect and very slender, with the slenderness that gives a look of youth as well as grace. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
At the same moment he was poignantly aware of her slenderness and fragility, the trembling of her hands. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
She had kept her slenderness, but she had lost her diffidence, and she had gained an air of distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
After which it was his turn to study her, the contrast and slenderness of her, scarcely escaping boyishness. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Her slenderness lost in the padded armchair, she seemed both too fragile and young for her responsibilities. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
He went quickly to her and untied the knot in the laces at her back, marveling at the slenderness of her neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
He held it out, almost simian in proportion and slenderness, the one proportional defect of this handsome body. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
'Komodachi taksan takai' ( "the very tall friend," as they say, on account of his excessive height and slenderness). From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Lord Beresford made a shape with his hands that did not fit at all well with the earl's memories of her slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
These kinds are remarkable for the great length and slenderness of the legs, which they part with readily when handled!. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
She was tall, but not too tall for perfect grace; and slender, but with the slenderness of some young pictured goddess. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
He was lying on a bench, his face hidden in his out-flung arms, and his slenderness and helplessness pulled at me hard. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The black habit became her slenderness, and her bearing had a youthful grace that stabbed piercingly into Cadfael's memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession of Brother Haluin]
Lance's slenderness and the fact that he was several inches smaller carried with it the necessary suggestion of graceful youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
The decoration of the spire is admirably designed in relation to the slenderness of the tower, and its own height above the eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
And they would vary the outline by making it curve inward, giving a fine sweep thus from the base to an apex of great slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
Its legs were unnaturally long and thin; and the slenderness of its barrel was utterly disproportioned to the breadth of its chest. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Along the beach, tall bunches of reeds stood out against the brown of the river and the blue of the sky in their waving slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
The length of the work was an important consideration, -- long things were not compatible with wide margins and graceful slenderness. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
It certainly seems singular; when we know the slenderness, if not sternness of the connexion generally subsisting between the teachers at. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Perhaps it was this care which made up a part of her general strain -- and enabled her to keep the lithe slenderness of her early figure. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
The girl rose nimbly, the movement revealing unexpected height and extreme slenderness, both qualities accentuated by her very juvenile attire. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
For the creature was so deliciously young, everything about her; her slenderness; the joyful way she swung when she walked; even the cut of her clothes spelled youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
That he desired, besides, the passing benediction of her hands, the fragrance of her corn-gold hair, the sight of her slenderness: this she had guessed and gloried in. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
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