A slenderly built woman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a slender post. ,slender youths. ,a slender income. ,slender prospects. From Dictionary.com.
Though slenderly fashioned, she was so gloriously strong. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
But the story, slenderly rooted in itself, has no support. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Nowshera, then slenderly garrisoned by British troops, but with many. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
We are here but badly victualled, and furnished with mouth-harness very slenderly. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Noon came and our food; and the Cranes ate slenderly, as one must before the dance. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Its general size is that of a Turkey, but with a much more slenderly proportioned body. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832] Reference
The lad was slenderly built, but vigorous and firm on his feet, and moved with a spring. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
This was something better than their own slenderly-built, iron-roofed house in Queensland. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
The man who spoke was little more than a lad, a pale-faced, slenderly built son of the veldt. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
Willbraham in 1616, but so slenderly endowed that they do not produce more than 9l. 6s. annually. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827] Reference
She was quite young, not more than about sixteen, and so slenderly formed as to appear almost a child. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
Then of a sudden Horace Tarbox rose slenderly and began to pace the room with his hands in his pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
He was a young man of seventeen or eighteen, slenderly built, with well-shaped feet, and long, delicate, nervous hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Octavius could see in what danger the general was, and himself, at first but slenderly followed, hurried to the rescue. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
At this the storekeeper — a tall, slenderly built man of some seven or eight and twenty — appeared, bearing a jug and a pannikin. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Chinese people have finely bridged noses and parchment-yellow skin, and they are relatively tall and slenderly built, the article said. From Wordnik.com. [Human Smoke] Reference
The ruins, arched bridges and picturesque dwellings and other erections of Europe are but slenderly to be regretted by the American beginner. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
He was a tall, slenderly built man, with whimsical brown eyes and the half-stern, half-sweet mouth of one who has been through the mill of physical pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He was a rather small man, slenderly built, with long sensitive hands and a very bald head, in the center of which a tuft of hair stood comically upright. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Before her marriage Mrs Edmund Yule was one of seven motherless sisters who constituted the family of a dentist slenderly provided in the matter of income. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Christopher Columbus sail caught the breeze, and slenderly outlined against it were the forms of Shane and Harlan waving a cheerful farewell to the watchers. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
The buildings of the perimeter were single-storied, slenderly colonnaded; behind them, others lifted ever higher, until they climaxed in a leap of slim towers. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
His figure, though less than six feet, gave the impression of a much taller man; for he was slenderly built without being thin, and his carriage was almost military. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
Turning I found myself confronted by a tall, slenderly built man, with a long, drooping moustache, and an overcoat buttoned up to the chin, who held me with a grasp of steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
She turned away sorrowfully and came cheek by jowl with a slenderly built thin-faced man whose eyes twinkled humorously, and with mobile lips that somehow suggested comicality. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
A lightweight, not above the middle height and slenderly built, but of balanced and assured movement; he might well make up in speed and agility what he lacked in bulk and reach. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
Sir W. Coventry did speake very slenderly of their faults. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666] Reference
The meadows dipped to a brook, slenderly spanned by a plank. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
Evelina was sitting at the table; the jonquils rose slenderly between herself and Mr. Ramy. From Wordnik.com. [Bunner Sisters] Reference
That you should go forth on so cold a night so slenderly apparelled, was almost incredible. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
Duke of Albemarle; and two of the others, Sir W. Coventry did speake very slenderly of their faults. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
The truth I am afraid is, that real taste is a quality with which human nature is very slenderly gifted. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12] Reference
On the divan which constituted the principal item of furniture a small man, slenderly built, was sitting. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Chinatown] Reference
The most largely endowed has no more obligation and no fairer field than the most slenderly gifted lies under and possesses. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
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