slenderness

• “And her young womanhood was so withdrawn from the usual thoughts and projects of her age that Kirsteen had put on something of the dignified manners of a person much older, although her fresh youthful colour, the milk-white brow and throat, the ruddy hair all curly with vigour and life, showed no premature fading, and her person, which was always beautifully clothed, and fitted to perfection, had improved in slenderness and grace.”

  Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

• “I was still somewhat thin, but now it could be called slenderness, not thinness.”

  Tramping on Life

• “HebrewPunk comes in at just under 150 large-print pages, but in part the slenderness is a function of the leanness of Tidhar’s style.”

  Archive 2010-01-01

• “She had by her costume exaggerated in a most ostentatious way a slenderness which is elegant under the veils and ample drapery of the Grecian and Roman heroines, but which is objectionable in modern dress.”

  My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

• “The big burger blitz comes as the Japanese, famed for their fish-and-rice diet and general slenderness, have been plumping up over the years.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Beefing Up McDonald's

• “This second generation comes available in a smaller, 11.6-inch version yet still manages to feature a full-size keyboard, a zippy Intel Core Duo 2 processor and its iPad-level slenderness and weight 2.3 pounds makes it barely noticeable in any backpack or large handbag.”

  The Wall Street Journal: These Laptops Go to Eleven

• “It's also completely sexless and tricky to pull off if you're not blessed with legs of a slenderness usually associated with race horses.”

  The Guardian: What I bought this week: witty tights

• “He liked her for the strength of her slenderness; and to walk with her, swinging her step and stride to his, or to merely watch her come across a room or down the street, was a delight.”

  CHAPTER 8

• “More than ever seeming the creature of ill omen which he has been to Mexico, the bandit leader, almost six feet in height and thin to the point of slenderness, stared out into the darkness, the blackness of his charro suit accentuated by the light which flowed around him.”

  The Zapata interview

• “His gaze raked the long slenderness of her, the coral pink of her lips, the graceful column of her throat where her pulse fluttered, begging to be kissed.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

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