His fingers 'long boniness brought me back to an old familiarity. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Back To Earth As A Dog] Reference
"You needn't worry over my boniness," she assured him cheerfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
As a society, we have to break the equation of celebrity and boniness. From Wordnik.com. [Liz Perle: The Model of Thin] Reference
Weird milky eyes with no pupil, limbs too long for their thin boniness, and they ... bent. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The boy was the elder, nineteen or so, and possessed all that clumsy boniness which promises size and weight. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Hudson was within shouting distance of fifty, thin to the point of boniness, with a sharp nose and a sharp tongue and a refined voice. From Wordnik.com. [Two Weeks To Remember]
One of the delightful things about her was that she was obviously going to make an admirable old lady; the delicate boniness of her face and the clearness of her skin assured that. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Beneath the coat he wore a green shirt with the top three buttons opened, revealing a chest of tubercular hue and boniness, offset by a rakish red kerchief drawn loosely around his thin neck. From Wordnik.com. [EVENING’S EMPIRE] Reference
Envious to behold the extremes of boniness, which then, as now, doubtless characterized the strong-minded females, he concealed himself in a neighboring bathing-house, and brought his opera-glass to bear on the group. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870] Reference
Yet they were strong and healthy, in spite of their boniness, and of course you can't expect to be very fat in winter. From Wordnik.com. [Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals] Reference
Honed to a swift, aquiline boniness of profile which cut into the shadows, there was something swiftly vigorous about even his repose. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
It was easy to see that he wasn't a boy, though, even if he did wear knee breeches; you only had to look at his face, for he had the kind of hard boniness in his face that grown-ups have. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure] Reference
Brittany Murphy had peeled away -- hair straightened and bleached into an all-too-common style, a healthy body dissolving to Hollywood boniness, quirk wiped away for mainstream stereotype. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
Perhaps she had not grown much prettier -- and she never had great pretensions that way; but along with the angularity, so to speak, of her ways of thinking, she had also lost the boniness of her figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols] Reference
His second cousin, Lena, the Cowleses '"hired girl," was opening the door, stiff and uncomfortable in a cap, a black dress, and a small frilly apron that dangled on her boniness like a lace kerchief pinned on a broom-handle. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
The boniness, so to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Will Durst: Armageddon at the DC Corral] Reference
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