slender-limbed love

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  • As for Inez, who had not only a pretty face but was graceful and slender-limbed as a greyhound, Inez no longer needed to worry over artificial charms, or to dwell self-consciously on her development; serious admirers were not lacking, and with one of these, a young man some eight years older than herself, she had had for the past three months a sort of understanding.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • Nor did she see the tall, slender-limbed man who had been driving, and whose questing hazel eyes had descried her almost immediately, slip from his seat behind the steering-wheel and come across the grass towards her.

    The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

  • Her left hand was clasped by that of a child: a tiny, shadowy shape, sweet-faced and slender-limbed.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • The son of Thunder was little like his sire, but a slender-limbed racer, graceful, nervous, eager.

    Riders of the Silences John Frederick

  • Master Pigeon, the successor of Master Weeks, was of better stature, but loosely put together, and slender-limbed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • He was a striking-looking man, tall, and built with the slender-limbed grace of a foreigner.

    The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

  • Quietly, with the least possible action, Doña Rita moved it to the other side of her motionless person, Slowly, the fantastic women with butterflies 'wings and the slender-limbed youths with the gorgeous pinions on their shoulders were vanishing into their black backgrounds with an effect of silent discretion, leaving us to ourselves.

    The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

  • Quietly, with the least possible action, Doa Rita moved it to the other side of her motionless person, Slowly, the fantastic women with butterflies 'wings and the slender-limbed youths with the gorgeous pinions on their shoulders were vanishing into their black backgrounds with an effect of silent discretion, leaving us to ourselves.

    The Arrow of Gold 1919

  • And the corroding part of it was that he had been outwitted by a woman, that he was being defied by a physical weakling, a slender-limbed thing of ribbons and laces whose back he could bend and break across his great knee.

    Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

  • She moved forward doubtfully, a slip of a slender-limbed girl, full of the unstudied charm and grace of youth.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

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