There had been dances in the little halls at the edge of the city: colourful but stiff affairs with little skinny girls wearing pink ribbons in their hair, dancing with swarthy little boys.
There was one woman who was thinner every time they came: she always wore pink or blue voile bed-jackets and her hands were skinny and very clean, with shining red fingernails.
Before Ned Corry's affairs were finished with, Tony came into the kitchen, saying: "I just been talking out there toSkinny Chubb.
Was it in search of us--" Isaac held out his skinny hand.
Only his long, skinny forefinger shot out toward the door.
Why don't they pitch a couple of bombs down here, an' show these skinny nuts who's running the galaxy?
For another, I fill out my clothes and don't look like a skinny old horse.
But no answer, and for once no rings of smoke came from those shrivelled lips: the man had rolled and lighted a cigarette since Rattray entered, but it was burning unheeded between his skinny fingers.
I call the saints to witness that never by thought or word have I been disloyal to you"--and the blasphemous wretch actually crossed himself with a trembling, skinny hand.
Her shoulders were tensed, her whole skinny body a cringe.
He planted a foot in the mud for leverage, then flipped Danny over so that Alan was on top, knees on his skinny chest.
Then he could go and find himself a skinny redheaded girl with a Scots accent, and in due time her belly would swell up and there would be a child.
Skinny little fucker -- gotta put some meat on your bones.
I could watch the kids go by from the window -- skinny Hasids with side-curls and Filipinos with pretty ribbons and teenagers who smoked, but I couldn't go to them.
Which is why you went into fashion," Link said giving her skinny shoulder a playful shove.
He lifted his skinny hand to his long gray beard, and then gravely tipped his oiled hat.
He seized the preacher's skinny arm with the ferocity of greed.
Finally a light shone in the hall, and the skinnyfigure of a man, shivering violently despite the blanket-robe which enfolded him, appeared in the hallway.
Carroll smiled genially at the skinny young chap who bustled forward importantly, proud of his temporary spotlight position.
His dignity was excruciatingly funny to Carroll as the very young man seated himself, crossed one elongated and unbelievably skinny leg over the other and arranged the creases so that they were in the very middle.
She was dressed in a black cloak, from which protruded her long skinny arms and claw-like hands.
Jill felt she must be getting sleepy, but it certainly appeared to her as if the branching palings round the cottage were really long lean arms joining their skinny hands, and as if the skull-shaped knobs on the top of them were real skulls.
He holds him with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship,' quoth he.
Oh, surely not," said the Goat; "a skinny old thing like me!
He drew in his breath again, and looked very skinny indeed.
As Paul turned round, with his features suddenly visible in a stream of lurid light, he raised his arm and pointed a long, skinny finger steadily towards him.
They were around him like a pack of wolves, their lean faces hungry and fierce, and their long, skinny fingers clutching at his throat and at his clothing.
Twinkle nearly laughed at this scrawny, skinny personage; but by good fortune, for she didn't wish to offend him, she kept her face straight and did not even smile.
The Mayor sat on one side of Twinkle and Mrs. Puff-Pudgy on the other, and Chubbins was between the skinny old magician and Mr. Sneezeley.
Good big muscles, even if she is a skinny little runt.
I'd have give them a run for the money," Mrs. Bybee retorted grimly, her skinnyold hand knotting into a menacing fist.
But I s'pose theskinny ones was so hungry that the fat ones hadn't a chance wid 'em.
Offshore, four miles offshore, Bagg was footing it for England as fast as his skinny little legs would carry him.
Her back was turned to Nita, her clawlike, skinny hands were diving into the chest of gold.
A piece of silver crossed her skinny palm, and she laughed in joy.
Prostrate upon the floor lay her young mistress, and across her body was stretched the lean, lithe frame of an old witchlike woman, whose skinny claws gripped Nita's throat in a murderous clasp.
She pointed a skinny finger at the door, and each man as she cast her look upon him went out without a word.
Mother Borton, an absent look coming over her skinny features, as though her mind wandered.
The third and fourth fingers of his hands were crooked upon the skinny palms, beyond any power to open them.
His face had a flushed, congested, purple hue, and there was an unnatural glare in his eyes; but the blood flowed thickly and sluggishly from his skinny arm, and a much longer time than usual elapsed before he felt relieved.
After turning the stick over and over in his skinny hands, and pressing the top of it against his toothless gums, the old man again spoke.
