fine-drawn

• “There was the same lithe, spare build and fine-drawn bones; the same chiseled lines of the face; the level brows and wide hazel eyes; and the same dark hair, curved smooth across the brow.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “Quoth I, ‘for that I’m fine-drawn wasted, waxed thin,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “And when we point out the blunder you have nothing but a sneer for our fine-drawn distinctions and scornful laughter for our suggesting that a Socialist does not understand.”

  The Catholic Doctrine of Property Part One

• “She had the fine-drawn face of an intelligent Jewess.”

  Page to Screen

• “I must invest my elementary spirits with a little human flesh and blood — they are too fine-drawn for the present taste of the public.”

  The Fortunes of Nigel

• “For the rest they were a broad-faced, low-browed people, blunt-featured beside the fine-drawn Arabs whom generations of in-breeding had sharpened to a radiance ages older than the primitive, blotched, honest Englishmen.”

  Seven Pillars of Wisdom

• “Behold him, too fine-drawn to sweat, too pressed to vaunt the drugs in his little brass-bound box, ascending Shamlegh slope, a just man made perfect.”

  Kim

• “His taut, fine-drawn face had the fierce and lonely beauty of a proud hawk, and he was frightening in his masculinity.”

  Dearly Beloved

• “Cadfael had visions of that face terminating in a short, pointed beard, and with fine-drawn moustaches over the long, fastidious lips.”

  The Virgin In The Ice

• “Since he was younger and much fitter, his sleepless nights had made him fine-drawn and handsome.”

  The Praise Singer

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