overthin

Take my airline seat and you forgo a potential bribe; harvest an elephant today and you’ll have fewer elephants tomorrow; overthin your cattle herd and you’ll go bankrupt.

More Sex Is Safer Sex Steven E. Landsburg 2007

Take my airline seat and you forgo a potential bribe; harvest an elephant today and you’ll have fewer elephants tomorrow; overthin your cattle herd and you’ll go bankrupt.

More Sex Is Safer Sex Steven E. Landsburg 2007

Albert Campion, too, was tall and fair, but he was overthin and the careful veil of affable vacuity which had begun, like his large spectacles, as a protection and had become a second skin, had robbed him of good looks, whereas Morty’s thick light-brown hair had a wave in it and there was nothing bleak or colorless about his gray eyes.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

Albert Campion, too, was tall and fair, but he was overthin and the careful veil of affable vacuity which had begun, like his large spectacles, as a protection and had become a second skin, had robbed him of good looks, whereas Morty’s thick light-brown hair had a wave in it and there was nothing bleak or colorless about his gray eyes.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968