She could always make a certain brilliant or bizarre effect, by virtue of her mere slenderness and delicacy, combined with the startling beauty of her eyes and hair.
It was impossible to mistake the springing step and tall slenderness of Constance Bledlow.
Perhaps an inch or two taller than her mother, she was of a marked slenderness; a completed slenderness, I might say--a slenderness so palpably finished as to details that I can only describe it as felicitous in the extreme.
It was the portrait of one dark but fair, with shoulders of a girlish slenderness all but thin, with eyes of glowing dusk and a half-smile upon her lips.
To begin with, the comparative slendernessof the attachment between the head and the body was an element of danger.
In the paintings and bas-reliefs of Thebes this slenderness is more strongly marked in the women than in the men, and everything goes to prove that it was considered essential to beauty in the female sex.
In later years elegance became the chief object, and slenderness of proportion was sometimes pushed even to weakness.
All her fine slenderness of form, her small delicacy of feature, seemed to him tense and vibrating, like some precise and perfect instrument strained to express a human feeling or intention.
It forced up the sweeping lines of a figure so delicately molded that itsslenderness was scarcely apparent, for Maud Barrington still wore a long somber dress that had assisted in her triumphs in the city.
Cod liver oil, which is so very disagreeable to most people, is the sure cure for the girl whose extreme slenderness causes her to lie awake nights to fret and worry.
If there is any internal disease, especially the slightest inclination to dyspepsia or liver trouble, one cannot possibly gain flesh until the cause of the extreme slenderness is removed.
Hamilton Montagu Burton stood an even six feet, and from a generous breadth of shoulders, swung back in free erectness, he tapered to a trim slenderness of waist and thigh.
Nearly all the members of this family are remarkable for the elegance of their shape, the dignity of their attitudes, the grace and vivacity of their movements, the slenderness of their limbs, and the sustained rapidity of their flight.
The Jerboa Kangaroo is so called on account of the length and slenderness of its hind-legs similar to those of the Jerboa Rats.
They were poor; and the slenderness of their resources debarred them from great undertakings.
The thickness of the neck, the swell of the breast and shoulder, the slenderness of the waist, the fulness of the hips, are all exaggerated.
But the slenderness and elegance of the Sheraton styles did in a small degree have weight with cabinet-makers as a whole in the provinces.
The right-hand one, with arms, is composite in its character, and is in date about 1820, and exhibits a touch of the Sheraton slenderness of style in the splats and the round turning of arms.
The Slenderness of my Income teaches me Frugality sufficiently.
So intimately mingled are they with it, that, what with their slenderness and their glossy surfaces, you can hardly tell at last what in the dance is leaf and what is light.
Her slenderness was rounded, her slimness soft and full.
Level-eyed and diffident of tongue, with only a hint of his hidden bodily perfection lurking in breadth of shoulder and slenderness of waist.
She had by her costume exaggerated in a most ostentatious way a slenderness which is elegant under the veils and ample drapery of the Grecian and Roman heroines, but which is objectionable in modern dress.
Since then his slenderness has developed into plumpness and his hope into certitude.
In appearance we might both have been taken for quite young girls, for, although I was older than she was, my slenderness and my face made me look younger.
Except when jumping with the hind feet into the front tracks two individual tracks of the cottontail never blend into one mark on account of the slenderness of the feet.
Only the slenderness of the rabbit's foot serves as a distinguishing feature in the trail so long as they are both unalarmed.
Even Booty, with his wild slenderness and faunlike grace, could not be compared with Ransome, so well knit, so perfect in every limb was he.
Yet it carried itself with an effect of tallness and slenderness and grace.
Deer= (Cervidæ) are animals of graceful form, combining much compactness and strength with slenderness of limb and fleetness.
She was very splendid, her slenderness accentuated by the length of satin swathed about her, from which her shoulders emerged, girlishly fragile.
This was partly due to her extreme slenderness and partly to her blonde coloring.
Similarly, a gold necklace with a jeweled pendant emphasized the slenderness of her neck.
He went quickly to her and untied the knot in the laces at her back, marveling at the slenderness of her neck.
Alicia added to her dark southern splendor the slenderness and slightly boyish freedom of movement of her father's race.
But as there was not an angle visible anywhere, her fair slenderness seemed a new kind of beauty, which all, in spite of sculptor's rules, must now admire.
Instead of disguising theslenderness of her form, she intensified it; instead of contrasting hues, she often wore amber tints like her hair.
He could see now that her slendernesswas that of youth, of a figure undeveloped and immature.
As his arms closed about her, he knew that he was violently shaken, but he knew that she was trembling, too, through all the magnificent softness and slenderness of her.
Extent and novelty of the theory propounded by Schleiermacher--slenderness of his proofs.
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