Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Built or formed without fullness or robustness; slender.
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Examples
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The door opened and a spare-built man entered, toting their suitcases.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The door opened and a spare-built man entered, toting their suitcases.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The door opened and a spare-built man entered, toting their suitcases.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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The door opened and a spare-built man entered, toting their suitcases.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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For the benefit of Elijah's relatives, if any should have occasion to look for particulars concerning this lost individual, we add, that he was a spare-built man of a dark color.
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They described him as a "spare-built man, bald head, wearing a wig."
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He was a spare-built man, in years thirty or thereabouts, with a face all lines and angles, and dotted with pock-marks.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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Cambridge, Md. Silas was quite black, spare-built and about twenty-seven years of age.
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John Henry Moore, another one of the Arlington party, was about twenty-four years of age, a dark, spare-built man.
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George was a spare-built man, about twenty-five years of age, quite dark, but had considerable intelligence.
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