slenderly

Slenderly built, she had extremely long legs for her size.

A great conductor, a composer who has ever but slenderly known where his true gift is, and what kind of man?

She was small, barely tall enough to reach Peter's shoulder, and slenderly built.

Lear, it's said, has ever but slenderly known himself; now, in order to die at peace, he needs to face what he is.

Noon came and our food; and the Cranes ate slenderly, as one must before the dance.

We are all in the position of King Lear, who, holding absolute authority over his kingdom, "but slenderly knew himself."

They are the same path to theosis, more slenderly differentiated:

He opened it so slenderly you couldn't see it at all, peered fearfully through the crack.

He was years younger than the Mayor of Casterbridge; fair, fresh, and slenderly handsome.

The servitor was a Thar-tha-charon, standing slenderly erect on four legs but with an upright torso whose shoulders provided leverage for the two arms.

Take her up tenderly; Lift her with care; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair!

In spite of being tall, he wasn't awkward in his movements and was a fine basketballer, his body slenderly athletic.

He was taller than she by only a few inches, and slenderly built, an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords.

REGAN 'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.

So it came about that I sought Nettie on the Sunday afternoon and suddenly came upon her, light bodied, slenderly feminine, hazel eyed.

I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import.

Of course, Regan has said in the first act that while her father's erratic behavior may be "the infirmity of his age," he "hath ever but slenderly known himself."

Slenderly and strongly made, in the first bloom of young womanhood, and with her magnificent dark hair unbound, Maimiti made a picture worth traveling far to behold.

According to records, "they wandered all that afternoon being wet, and at night it did freeze and snow, they were slenderly appareled and had no weapons but each one sickle."

In contrast to the Iron Tower, however, the Wood Tower is much more slenderly proportioned, which is typical of the 'verticality' of the Gothic style.

In fact, Lear is going mad; the tottering intellect, at no time strong ("tis the infirmity of age; yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself," I. i. ll.

He was so like Cato Salonianus-the same slenderly muscular build, the promise of tall stature, the shape of his head and ears, the long neck, long limbs- and the bright red hair.

Slenderly penciled, a little darker than her light brown hair, they just fitted her irregular nose that was feminine but not weak, that if anything was piquant and that picturesquely might be declared impudent.

Then came the waking when Thiela lay slenderly in the brisk white precision of the hospital bed, watching shadow patterns of blowing leaves on the wall, too relaxed to turn her head to see the leaves themselves.

She was a girl of about twenty-one or two years of age, I should think - tall, but slenderly built, with a sweet oval face, bright brown hair, and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen in my life.