The phaeton was probably slimmer than these equally curious vehicles, and much higher, and their ability to turn corners with ease may be deduced from the lines just quoted.
In less than ten years, however, a larger body was given to them, so that they came to resemble the coach rather than the smaller and slimmer chariots, while the coachman's box was made very much higher.
Some of them were of a greatly more robust, and some of a slimmer type, than others.
With such momentum had even the slimmer twigs been dashed against the sea-pebbles, that they stuck out from under more than a hundred tons of fallen rock, divested of the bark on their under sides, as if peeled by the hand.
The aguará is smaller and has no mane; it is like the dingo in size, but slimmer and with a sharper nose, and lias a much brighter red colour.
Its plumage was yellowish in hue, like sere dead herbage, and its extremely slender body looked longer and slimmer than it was, owing to the great length of its tail, or of the two middle tail-feathers.
The next morning Mr. Slimmer proceeded calmly to the office for the purpose of embalming in sympathetic verse the memories of other departed ones.
Standing upon the curbstone in front of the office there was a long row of men, each of whom was engaged in reading The Morning Argus with an earnestness that Mr. Slimmer had never before seen displayed by the patrons of that sheet.
When Mr. Slimmer had concluded his portion of the entertainment, he left the colonel in the hands of the enemy and fled.
Slimmer heard one of them say: [Illustration] "My name is McGlue, sir!
Illustration] Mr. Slimmer had charge of the editorial department the next day during the absence of Colonel Bangs in Wilmington.
Really," Mr. Slimmer said, "that person must be deranged.
In shape it resembles a trout, but with a slimmer and more pointed head.
In rapid running streams the fish are always slimmer than in more sluggish ones.
This fish is called bonito by many of the Catalina anglers, which is a misnomer, as it is a much slimmer fish than the bonito.
Dark as it was, it seemed to the sergeant as though the slimmer of the two gentlemen had made a motion to prevent the other speaking, and (finding himself too late) had skipped aside with some alacrity.
The lady appeared to bend forward and study the cart with every mark of sharpened curiosity, the slimmer gentleman still keeping in the rear.
It was about five in the afternoon when they started out together under Virginia's white parasol, Eugenie's slimmer courage upheld by her friend's bearing.
I have run miles for him to buy his buns and jam; but I was slimmer in those days.
This complete cessation of all disturbance was caused by the entrance of a portly figure carrying one lamp, followed by another slimmer one carrying a second.
They were a hungry-mouthed looking lot that presided within them, taken at their best, for the picking had been growing slimmer and slimmer in Wyoming year by year.
One chance, and that chance getting slimmer every day, as he says.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slimmer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
