Adjective : a clean-limbed athlete. From Dictionary.com.
She was long-limbed, clean-limbed, quick of mind and of body. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
The horses were very fine, tall and clean-limbed, with glossy coats. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
She was a splendid young animal, tall, clean-limbed, slim and shapely. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Dark]
These horses are clean-limbed, close-coupled and wonderfully docile and obedient. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Along the river-bottoms and low grounds the sycamore is found as clean-limbed, tall and stately as elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Madame de St. André looked after the clean-limbed, athletic young figure as it disappeared rapidly through the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
I could easily imagine what a beauty my spaniel would be, clean-limbed and alert like the ones in the coloured lithographs. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Brianna resembled Jamie in more than coloring; she stood six feet in her stockings and had her father's clean-limbed strength. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Erect and clean-limbed, they were as dignified and wonderful as a row of fir trees, and physically I felt a sorry object beside them. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
It is probable that the pirates gained a rich reward for the clean-limbed boy, whose strength and ability were evident to all who saw him. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
John G., on that diluvian night, was twenty-two years old, and still every whit as clean-limbed, alert, and plucky as his salad days had seen him. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
They were well-trained, obedient dogs, clean-limbed and civil, expert in many clever tricks, but not quite a match for the parrot in cleverness and cunning. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their grey coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Another was Kiron, the soldier, a clean-limbed, handsome, athletic fellow who had served in the army of the jong, but mutinied with the others at the time of the revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates of Venus]
But all were bronzed and bearded, fleshless and clean-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
The woman looked like a man, clean-limbed and as tanned as leather. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
The latter was some few years his senior, stalwart and clean-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure] Reference
Tall, straight, clean-limbed, her figure remembered graces of a younger age. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lyveden] Reference
Kala was a fine clean-limbed young female, and they did not wish to lose her. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan of the Apes] Reference
The natives of the Darling are a clean-limbed, well-conditioned race, generally speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
Only their fierce bold eyes, strong spears, and clean-limbed horses kept the laugh from them. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of the Kings] Reference
The Jim she saw was the big, clean-limbed boy with whom she had ridden so often at Billabong. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Jim] Reference
Across a green open country came clean-limbed young men, some afoot, some mounted upon horses. From Wordnik.com. [Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life] Reference
It was then that I noted particularly how well bred and clean-limbed he was; how easily his clothes fitted. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
He was a clean-limbed young fellow, with a head of hair like a furze-bush, and his mother was quite untinted. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
At one of these dances she met young Robert Ross, a clean-limbed, good-looking young fellow about her own age. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Bush] Reference
D'Arnot saw a clean-limbed young giant emerge from the shadows into the firelight and come quickly toward him. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan of the Apes] Reference
Handsome, great dusky men they were, muscular, clean-limbed, and with faces full of character and intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
Besides, she was a clean-limbed, willowy creature, possessed of much grace which had not hitherto been realized. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
The fellow in the doorway was goodlooking and clean-limbed, his bearing was calm, he looked elegant, aristocratic. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
I had observed, way over in the corner of the corral, a bunch of cayuses, and among them a clean-limbed black horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference
The girl glanced contentedly at her supple, clean-limbed figure, and then, with a laugh, jumped upon the model stand. From Wordnik.com. [In the Quarter] Reference
Evidently Creech resisted it only by applying all his mind to the thought of his clean-limbed, soft-eyed, noble horse. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
It was clean-limbed, almost white, with long pointed horns projecting horizontally from its head; a thoroughly tame and tractable animal. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference
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