Again the slim-waisted shape of the old wife ventured forth into the room. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
A youth slim-waisted from whose locks and brow The world in blackness and in light is set. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran Winter] Reference
Her body might have belonged to an ancient goddess, lithe, firm-bosomed, slim-waisted, round-hipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
The man himself was tall, broad-shouldered and slim-waisted with smooth muscles rippling beneath his jerkin. From Wordnik.com. [Elric At The End of Time]
Constantius, whom men called Falcon, was tall, broad-shouldered, slim-waisted, lithe and strong as pliant steel. From Wordnik.com. [A Witch Shall Be Born]
Constantius, whom men called Falcon, was tall, broad-shoul-lered, slim-waisted, lithe and strong as pliant steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Conan Chronicles]
Constantius, whom men called the Falcon, was tall, broad-shouldered, slim-waisted, lithe and strong as pliant steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
His keen little eyes looked her over, took in her bright, drooping head, and her sloping-shouldered, slim-waisted health. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
When none of his brothers was present, Leopold would turn up with a young man, slim-waisted, graceful, comely, who would present my grandmother with a bouquet of flowers that smelled strongly of subway stations. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
Duke and his Transparent family, all very fat and good-natured, come and occupy the great box in the middle; and the pit is full of the most elegant slim-waisted officers with straw-coloured mustachios, and twopence a day on full pay. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
I wanted to cross the footlights and help the slim-waisted. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
Ambrose saw that they were young men, slim-waisted and graceful. From Wordnik.com. [The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest] Reference
It was tiny and genteel in figure, slim-waisted, and straight-backed. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
He is naturally slim-waisted, as befits a worthy representative of the noble Hairyan race. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
The slim-waisted shirted figures bent plastically over the table in the graceful postures of the game. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
We looked long and enviously at the slim-waisted boys in khaki; but we never could get their god-like effects. From Wordnik.com. [The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me] Reference
"I see you're not going to trust me," murmured Mrs. Lessing, as a slim-waisted, trailing-black-gowned saleswoman approached. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pepper Burns] Reference
Given those findings, it makes sense that the slim-waisted body has not evolved to become the universal norm, said the study's author. From Wordnik.com. [Food &Health Skeptic] Reference
Even out of this mass of clerklings emerged two or three who were interesting: Sam Weintraub, a young, active, red-headed, slim-waisted. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
Zenith's professional bachelor; a slim-waisted man of forty-six with an effeminate voice and taste in flowers, cretonnes, and flappers. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
She is taller by three inches than the average woman, broad-shouldered, full-breasted, slim-waisted, a figure to haunt a sculptor's memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Chance] Reference
A man, still young, slim-waisted, wearing a blue coat and his hair powdered, with a big dog at his heels, stopped to listen to the rustic music. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
Updike was Zenith's professional bachelor; a slim-waisted man of forty-six with an effeminate voice and taste in flowers, cretonnes, and flappers. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
Updike was Zeniths professional bachelor; a slim-waisted man of forty-six with an effeminate voice and taste in flowers, cretonnes, and flappers. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
A tall, broad-chested, slim-waisted, brown-faced, dark-eyed young prince, with a great beard (and other martial qualities no doubt) beyond his years. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Funeral of Napoleon] Reference
I wanted to cross the footlights and help the slim-waisted Armand in the frilled shirt to convince her that there was still loyalty and devotion in the world. From Wordnik.com. [My Ántonia] Reference
University of Utah anthropologist Professor Elizabeth Cashdan says there is evidence the hormonal profile linked to a slim-waisted, non-curvy shape favours women in. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Her spirit sank a little at the sight of the slim-waisted waitresses in black, with bewitching mob-caps on their haughty heads, who were moving disdainfully between the tables. From Wordnik.com. [Summer] Reference
Since Barbie was introduced by toy giant Mattel in March 1959, the amply-breasted, slim-waisted, shockingly blond fashion icon has been at the forefront of the socialization movement. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
She stood up before him, breathing quickly, and he beheld in her not the soft, slim-waisted little goddess of half an hour ago, but the fiercest fighter of all the fighting ages, a woman roused. From Wordnik.com. [The River's End] Reference
"There Is No Sound," further into the album, is a delicate, slim-waisted tribute to the folksy warblings of yesteryear Simon and Garfunkel, while "Two of a Kind" works a jangly pop groove to laudable results. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories] Reference
Under the green shore that faces the port, and at a point that, as the meeting-place of river and harbour, may be called indifferently by either name, lay a slim-waisted barque at anchor, with a sand-barge alongside. From Wordnik.com. [The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales] Reference
Updike was Zenith’s professional bachelor; a slim-waisted man of forty-six with an effeminate voice and taste in flowers, cretonnes, and flappers. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
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