"Slimly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... way, was different from his tall younger brother. He was slimly built, scarcely the average height, and not prone to many words. He was given to day-dreams, too, and often did such absent-minded things as to cause his father much mental perturbation, and at times to wish that he had not given him so much schooling, but had trained him for a farmer ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... was my duty to attend a State conference in one of the churches; it was rather slimly attended. We were invited to come nearer the altar, and I, with the ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith
... a slight girl, and not tall; but the curves of her young figure were slimly rounded, and her firm muscles were capably strong. This man was, in comparison with those rugged types she knew, effeminately delicate. His slim, long-fingered hands reminded her of a bird's claws. ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... as requested; then the proprietor toiled, in a short-breathed fashion, up the stairs before them, unlocked a door and stood aside for Scanlon to enter. The room was small and slimly furnished; but it was clean and had two windows peering upon what looked, in ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre |
