fine-boned

• “Invariably, the cashier at the convenience store was a girl in her late teens — slender, pale, with flawless skin, delicate hands, fine-boned, smiling, submissive, and sweet, always obliging.”

  Voices of Love

• “Knightley, last seen on the West End stage playing a Hollywood actress in The Misanthrope, delivers her part – of a bobbed and tweeded 1930s schoolmistress falsely accused of having a lesbian affair – with a fine-boned bleakness.”

  The Guardian: The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review

• “But Emilia Clarke isn't fine-boned enough for this role.”

  A New Daenerys

• “Freud painted three versions of this fine-boned young woman on a cream cover, seen from above, each one a masterpiece.”

  The Guardian: Lucian Freud obituary

• “Today, her slender, fine-boned body was fashionably dressed in a dark gray pantsuit with a multicolored scarf draped around her neck.”

  Simon & Schuster: I’ll Walk Alone

• “Villet shot this couple up close and personal: Richard may look like a redneck at first, but he is a strong, silent type, an impression captured in his adoring gaze at his fine-boned, tall, and elegant wife.”

  The Huffington Post: Regina Weinreich: 'The Loving Story' on HBO for Valentine's Day

• “He didn't have a blemish on his face, and his features were chiseled as if he'd been sculpted out of fine marble fromItaly, except that he was a combination of British and German, though mostly it was the German that stuck to his fine-boned frame.”

  Fictionaut: The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6

• “She was thirty years old, five feet four inches tall, fine-boned and elegant, a fully qualified pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases.”

  We Remember - Gertrud C. Reyersbach, 1907 - 1999

• “The Peacock King waves out one fine-boned, thin hand, a single gesture dismissing all of those assembled in his audience chamber.”

  Fictionaut: The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1

• “Elegant, witty and tall, with fine-boned features and unflinching blue eyes, he was in some ways an ideal Hamlet or Richard II.”

  The Guardian: David William obituary

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