For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments. From Wordnik.com. [One Woman's Life] Reference
The "spindly" trees were planted, as one comment poster on our Web site has it. From Wordnik.com. [Pasadena Star-News Most Viewed] Reference
The ipomopsis, my annual annual experiment, are kind of spindly but are starting to put out bright red blooms. From Wordnik.com. [Berks county news] Reference
A generation before being cast as Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom, Mr. Crawford resembled a kind of spindly, chuckleheaded marionette. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
Just because of its spindly legs - creepy looking. From Wordnik.com. [Artist Louise Bourgeois Dies At 98] Reference
COOPER: I have spindly legs just like that creature. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2008] Reference
In thick stands, trees are usually small and spindly. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference
It was a spindly arch, its stones cracked and pitted with age. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
The spindly stalk is seen here protruding from the plant's top. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Northern Chester & Montgomery Counties, PA] Reference
To give more is running the risk of getting spindly, weak heads. From Wordnik.com. [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference
Like Roger, the woman appeared somewhat frail, with spindly limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
He has drawn up his spindly knees and is resting his forearms on them. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
His legs were thin and spindly, and his large ears were pointed, as was his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
The woman parted the curtain of hair and grabbed the creature by its spindly legs. From Wordnik.com. [Origin] Reference
Four spindly legs led up to a globular body encased in a harness-like contraption. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
But the pumpkin crown hangs heavy on Jack's spindly skull; he's grown weary of fright. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: Tim Burton Looks At Holiday Hell] Reference
They looked spindly and kept close to their mother: they were about several weeks old. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Achvaneran] Reference
His long, spindly, basketball player legs barely fit underneath, even when pushed back. From Wordnik.com. [Joe for Town Council] Reference
But it was nothing new to run into Nancy Codiss, the spindly fifteen-year-old next door. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
By the poolside she unearths pictures of her granddaughters: little, white girls with spindly legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgetting Room 9] Reference
Her marbled Deft thigh probably weighs more than Calvin Klein superwaif Kate Moss's entire spindly frame. From Wordnik.com. [Pumping Irony: Thin Meets Gym] Reference
Stalking off, the young woman's legs are long and spindly in dark bluejeans that seem to have been painted on. From Wordnik.com. [At the Flea Market] Reference
He could see a solitary blue heron standing on its spindly legs in the shallow, lily-covered water near shore. From Wordnik.com. [Tender Mercies] Reference
Pale, thin and spindly-legged, he somehow shuffled the 26.2 miles in the company of nine-time winner Grete Waitz. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Finish Line] Reference
Metal poles, most of them bent in peculiar angles, held up the awning like the spindly legs of an arthritic spider. From Wordnik.com. [Changing a Flat] Reference
Kalinic, 22, now cuts quite a contrasting figure to the spindly £6m striker snapped up from Hajduk Split last summer. From Wordnik.com. [David Moyes reads riot act after sloppy Everton bow to Blackburn] Reference
Out spills a stream of teenage girls, permed, perfumed and teetering on spindly heels that clatter over the cobblestones. From Wordnik.com. [This Year's Model] Reference
It's a slightly ethereal architecture, with long sequences of arches, cascades of spindly columns and pierced stone screens. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Splendors] Reference
I still remember 1994 when a spindly 13-year-old skated to the silver medal behind Tonya Harding at the nationals in Detroit. From Wordnik.com. [Kwan at the Crossroads] Reference
Finally, you can walk off lunch on Chesil beach (chesilbeach. org) – a spindly shingle spit that reaches out into the elements. From Wordnik.com. [Love is in the (open) air] Reference
Hundreds of small farmers are ripping out coffee plants, cacao trees and other crops in favor of the spindly, bright green bushes. From Wordnik.com. [TURNING THE CLOCK BACK TO CHAOS?] Reference
At age 10 (pictured), I was 80 pounds with spindly legs, boundless energy, and had a whopping total cholesterol level of 248 m/dL. From Wordnik.com. [How I avoided cholesterol-lowering drugs—at age 10] Reference
His legs were so spindly, neighborhood kids called them "pencil pins," yet he ran the 100 in 9.9 seconds as a high-school halfback. From Wordnik.com. [Day & Night] Reference
The Japanese maple, full of pinkish shoots, looked spindly, and through it she could see a hayfield and a distant stand of birches. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] Reference
The door opened, and a very gaunt man, thin, spindly in every way stood in front her in a cardigan, nice trousers, and shiny shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Dadaist] Reference
Two cops named O'Malley bound their spindly feet together with green and red ribbons and placed the reindeer under arrest for desertion. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Holidays!] Reference
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