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Lena was in the kitchen now, banging cabinets, opening the fridge door—his small-boned girl with a bit of a heavy hand.
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Most of the patients were small-boned women like me, but there were a few men with broad shoulders and muscular chests who looked wildly out of place.
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Or: the book was a small-boned light-haired woman with big brown eyes and a startled expression.
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Lena was in the kitchen now, banging cabinets, opening the fridge door—his small-boned girl with a bit of a heavy hand.
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He was small-boned and slender and seemed to take after Thelma Pearl in every way except for the cheekbones and the unmistakable jaw with the deep cleft in his chin.
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My mother was extremely pretty, small-boned, and with a clear complexion and really long, curly hair.
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The Flappers -- at least the ones who naturally fit the clothes and did not have to bind their bosoms so they would be fashionably flat -- were small-boned and almost fragile.
Single definition of American Woman proves elusive at Costume Institute
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He was small-boned and slender and seemed to take after Thelma Pearl in every way except for the cheekbones and the unmistakable jaw with the deep cleft in his chin.
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She simply squared her small-boned shoulders, pulled herself up to her full flat-heel height of 5-foot-4 and got down to the business of reinventing herself.
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The small-boned and most of the whites have long since been harried into protective custody by extortionists.
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