Ann Woltor fainted as his slim body struck the waves.
Slim and frank as a boy in her half-adjusted blanket-wrapper dishabille she smiled up at me through the amazing mop of gold hair with the gray streak floating like a cloud across the sunshine of her face.
He followed her slim figure with his eyes until she disappeared.
And it was Mary Standish herself who closed the door, while he stared at her in stupid wonderment--and stood there with her back against it, straight and slim and deathly pale.
She had withdrawn her fingers from his arm, and her slim figure seemed possessed of a sudden throbbing suspense as she waited for an answer.
The slim body crumpled in his arms again while pitifully weak hands beat futilely in his face.
It seemed to him that the very soul of this slim and beautiful girl who had walked at his side had urged him on to the indiscretion of personal confidence.
He saw the tremor of her slim shoulders; and when he came back, and she looked up at him, it was as if he beheld the pallid beauty of one of the white tundra flowers.
His arms closed in a fierce embrace about the girl's slim body, and before she could realize what was happening, he leaped to the trap with her and almost flung her into its protection.
He would have followed, seeking the identity of the stranger whose words had temporarily stunned the young engineers, when he saw a slim figure standing between him and the light of the smoking-room windows.
It may have been fancy of the gathering dusk, that made him believe he caught a shuddering movement of her slim shoulders.
But he had never seen her so white, and never had she appeared quite so slim and childish-looking as while she stood there in these astounding moments with her back against the door.
It quickened with the straining eagerness of the Norden as the slim craft leaped through the water.
The empty swill pail in hand, Barbara came to stand beside him and her slim figure was bent slightly backward, as though by a mysterious wind created by her own spirit.
He had grown to like this slim and soft-spoken youngster, but at the same time he worried about him.
Lost in this unforgettable evening, Barbara slipped the silver bracelet over her slim wrist and held it up for all to see.
Joe hugged her very tightly and stroked her slim back with his rough hand.
At once the adventuring wagon became a wailing child who was gathered up and comforted in Barbara's slim arms.
He rose, encircled her slim waist with his arms and kissed her.
She wasslim and tall, and almost startlingly beautiful.
Jill was already trying to redeem her promise, as she hovered like a tall slimshadow behind her mother's chair in the twilight.
She was very big, certainly, and would never possess Sara's slim grace.
Sara was strumming on the grand pianoforte as we passed her; her slim fingers were running lazily over the keys in the 'Verliebt und Verloren' valse.
We'll come in sort of slim on it here, I reckon, Nels.
She was speechless with joy, but she seized Betty's slim brown hand and kissed it loudly.
She went close to the girl, very tall and slim and bright beside the dumpy, flaxen Hilma.
Yes, Bess hath the very tilt of her chin, the regal grace of that slim figure, and the deep blue eyes.
But I believe the beginning was at the meeting at Windsor with the slim and cynical gentleman who had treated him to something between patronage and contempt.
He took me up into a private room in the fort, where you were; and the surgeon, who was there at the time, said that your chances were as slim as any man's he had ever seen.
He reached the height of his mortification when the slim gentleman dropped his eyelids and began to yawn.
The slim gentleman under the sign laughed until he held his sides, with a heartiness that jarred upon me.
The slim gentleman poured the width of a finger of claret in his glass, soused it with water, and held it up.
John Paul had not spoken since the slim gentleman had drawn the distinction between us, and I knew that the affront was rankling in his breast.
There is one chance," he continued, "and that is a very slim one.
Ihjel had just begun to tell him, in some detail, just how slim his chances were of accomplishing that, when Brion interrupted them both.
There is a slim chance that we might uncover something.
She put up a finger to touch the velvet petal texture of her skin, and she saw how prettily pointed and slim her hand was.
Such delicate little fair crowned heads, such delicious little tip-tilted noses and slim white throats, such ripples of gay chatter and nonsense!
She put her soft, slimhand up to her soft, slim throat.
The soft silk of her hair looked like the night and the small rings on the back of her very slim white neck were things to ensnare the eye and hold it helpless.
It was her mother in a dress whose spring-like tint made her a sort of slim dryad.
She knelt down, clasping her slim young hands and bending her forehead upon them.
From her little head to her slim bits of feet, your grace.
Here was a quilted basket with three Persian kittens purring in it, and she knelt and stroked their fluffiness, bending her slim neck and showing how prettily the dark hair grew up from it.
Her slim fairness and ash-gold gossamer hair carried airily strange tilts and curves of little or large hats or daring tints other women could not sustain but invariably strove to imitate however disastrous the results.
The young men had slim straight bodies and light movements.
Mademoiselle felt as if her fingers were twisting themselves together and the Frenchwoman was peculiarly moved by the fact that she looked like a slim jeune fille of a creature saying a lesson.
Florence looked at this slim girl in overalls, and smiled.
When the slim one reappeared he was wrapped from head to toe in a great blue coat.
He addressed this remark to a slim girl in a faded bathing suit, seated on a rock a hundred feet away.
Aunt Bobby nodded toward a slim girl who, garbed in blue overalls, sat beside the box-like stove.
In the meantime, the dark, slim man was saying to the stocky one: "Can you beat it?
A slim girl seated in the box occupied by the man whose great wealth had made this opera house possible, had leaned over to whisper excited words in this gray-haired millionaire's ears.
Having crossed the waiting room, the slim one entered an elevator, leaving the other to wait below.
The slim one laid an impressive hand on the other's arm.
Some are slim and pretty and not much use except just to play around when the water's sparklin' and the sun shines bright.
He snorted in contemptuous amusement, and gave a little, writhing twist of his slim body into his trousers.
Even the red ribbons were gone from her hair, which was covered by the gray blanket wrapped tightly around her slim body.
Bathsheba had been perplexed how to act, for she was not much more than a slim young maid herself, and the weight of stateliness sat heavy upon her.
This stone edifice consisted of a central mass and two wings, whereon stood as sentinels a few slim chimneys, now gurgling sorrowfully to the slow wind.
Holding to her shawl Nora could feel, she imagined, a shudder pass through the slim frame at the very mention of the name Nick.
He knelt down before her and she took his head between her slim hands and pressed her mouth against his.
Then he turned to his slimyoung wife, who with the boy was standing behind him, and presented her to the old housekeeper: "The dearest treasure that I won in Italy!
It looked very peaceful seated in that fold of the hill, no tossing of trees about it, though a little higher up the slim oaks and beeches of the copse were flinging themselves about against the grey sky in a kind of agonised appeal.
She wore a warm cloak in her carriage, it is true, but that had dropped from her shoulders, leaving her in all the bound-up rigidity in which youth is trim and slim and elastic, as becomes it.
She unloosed it as if the slim thing had cried under the pressure, and sat down again.
He almost thought he could have known the tall slim figure with a certain swaying movement in it, which was not like anybody else.
The lather of foam beneath the bows of the destroyers increased, and the white tumbling wakes tailed out, as the engines of the destroyers were whacked up and the slim long ships thundered along at thirty knots.
It was a long slim bomb, with an armour-piercing nose, and weighed two hundred and thirty pounds.
He pictured the Harwich flotilla coming out in line ahead, a light cruiser leading, her four hundred and thirty-six feet of slim grey length driven through the water by her forty-thousand horse power.
Her ruddy brown hair was without covering, and her tall slim figure was wrapped in an ample fur-lined cloak which reached to her feet.
A slim iron gray man, with a dark, keen face was standing beside one of the pillars which supported the gallery above.
So smoothly was it done that it was not until she emerged from the Witching Waves, guided by the pugilist's slim but formidable right arm, that Maud realized that Arthur had gone.
Bright brown eyes beneath a mass of fair hair, a determined little chin, a slim figure--these are disturbing things; and the youths of peaceful Millbourne sat up and took notice as one youth.
Presently the gruff voice that they had heard before hailed them from close by and they looked up to see Mr. Hooper and the slim youth approaching.
Looking up they saw another group of three: an oldish man, a slim young fellow who was almost a grown man and a girl in her middle teens.
He watched her eagerly as her slim white fingers flew in and out among the strands of trailing willow quickly taking shape beneath her magic touch.
Margaret Gardiner stepped to the window, drew aside the heavy lace curtains, and watched the dark, slim figure until it was lost to sight among the grand old oak-trees.
The room was in such dense shadow that they only saw a tall, slim form in a dark dress that seemed to melt into and become a part of the darkness beyond.
The ice cream was usually cut in very slim slices and the cake was served in mere sample sizes, so I thought when the big ball was over I could gather a few chosen spirits and we could dispose of Mammy Susan's box in short order.
If Horace's trip should also prove fruitless, the chances of their finding the diamonds would be slim indeed.
He knew howslim their chances were; he imagined how the party would struggle on, growing weaker daily, until-- If only they had a canoe!
Her Norman nose was tilted a trifle too high upon the slimstalk of her neck and body.
He was a slim yet satisfied figure, clad in a suit of pale-grey tweed, so subdued that the pattern was imperceptible--a costume that was casual but not by any means careless.
