Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive--not to say drunk.
I saw the man on the stretcher sit up, lankand with an uplifted arm, above the shoulders of the bearers.
There were lank New Englanders under Wyeth of Boston, erect as a mast pole, strong of jaw, angular of motion, taking clumsily to buckskins.
I don't believe in the pasquinades," declared a workman, lank and withered from operating the blowpipe.
Those I saw were about as tall as Europeans, of a very dark brown Colour, but not black, nor had they woolly, frizled hair, but black and lank like ours.
They rocked from foot to foot, and beat time with their elbows too, as the quarrel and battle which was not long in beginning went on; shouting fiercely; the lank faces distorted into the similitude of a cruel laugh.
Those lank scarecrows, that prowl hunger-stricken through all highways and byways of French Existence, will they pray?
Close to her escort, captain Gladsden undoubtedly recognised the scarred hook nose, hatchet face, and lank figure of his gambling opponent.
And soothly for the lover's ear A perfect bliss it is to hear About her limb so lithe and lank My Julia's ankle-bangle clank.
The selection of seconds was effected by the elder Harrison acting for McKinstry, and after a moment's delay by the volunteering of the long, lank figure previously noted to act for the master.
A lank figure to the right made a forward movement of impotent rage, but was checked by the evident leader of the party.
He rang a hand bell, and a lank boy, of fifteen, appeared.
Hornebog, lean and lank of figure, wore his long black hair in two solitary curls, one at each side.
He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse.
Lank hair was considered indicative of pusillanimity and cowardice; yet the head of Napoleon was guiltless of a curl!
Then I have flabby, lank cheeks, and long features, which suit ill with my low stature.
He was mounted on a strong, handsome chestnut, as marked a contrast to his guide's lank and trace-galled sorrel as were the two riders.
His boots had big spurs, although the lank old sorrel had never felt them.
Mr. Hormel was lank and lean in appearance; was a student who devoted his nights to old "Father Antics," the law.
A moment and the Bat's lank form loomed through the mist.
The words had scarcely passed Roger's lips when she appeared, gliding out of the mist towards them, the Bat's lank form at her elbow.
Below them on the right the Bat was drilling his pikemen, and alternately launching his lank form this way and that in a fever of impatience.
Glasses rang and foaming bumpers, And there was some heavy drinking; But my song must keep the secret Of the fate of late returners; Also hide the sudden drowning Which the hat of the lank teacher Suffered in the Rhine that night.
There was Red Grimsby, long, and lank and lithe as a Comanche, with a blue eye that tames a horse and man alike.
The large infusion of German blood shows itself in Cincinnati, even more than in St. Louis, where the lank Westerner is more in evidence.
If I were one-half as lank and homely, I should want to be born again once a week, at least.
Chapman is a tall, lank youth of five-and-twenty; full of good will, but of what other equipment time must yet try.
