She was tall enough to carry off a little extra weight, but excessive slimness was the fashion, and she shuddered at the thought that she might some day deviate from the perpendicular.
Her attitude showed the long slimness of her figure and the fresh curve of the throat below her bent-back head.
She had taken to short waists and broad sashes, and a style of drapery which accentuated the elegantslimness of her figure.
The Colonel had grown a little stouter, and his wife was too polite to cultivate a slimness which might have seemed a reproach to her husband's comfortable figure.
He was a tall boy of fifteen years, with long limbs that were saved from any unlovely slimness by their full-fleshed curves and perfect straightness.
The glory of it gave to her an appearance of height which she did not possess, for she was not tall, and her slimnessadded to the illusion.
Her frailty, the helplessness of her, the slimness of her in the crook of his arm, filled him with an exquisite exultation.
And then his physical eyes took in again the slimness of her, seized upon the alluring smallness of her and the fact that he could have tossed her to the ceiling without great effort.
This get-up suited him but it also changed him extremely by doing away with the effect of flexible slimness he produced in his evening clothes.
The men were of the same light colour and slimness as those I had seen on the edge of the mist in Clearwater Glen.
Her exquisite slimness and grace, amid the glow of silks and silver, gave her the air of a fairy-tale princess.
There was a suggestion of weariness and discouragement in the pose, and though the form had Sanda's tall slimness he could hardly believe it to be hers, until passing through the gateway he had come quite close to her.
Michael admired herslimness and tallness, but he wished that men would not turn round and stare at her as she passed them.
However, Muriel and her porcelain-blue eyes and the full bow of her lips and the slimness and girlishness of her were forgotten in the complexities of life at a great public school.
She lifted the weapon with a great effort, which showed the slimness of her delicate fair wrist and the sweet tracery of blue veins upon it.
She was a little thing of that exceedingly light slimness of build which makes a girl a childish feather-weight.
You, dearest Bella, have very nice ankles; but if you wear shoes like that and never pull up your stockings their slimness escapes the eye.
Occasionally, at the beginning of the new friendship, Norah was assailed by doubts about this, which intensified her prejudice against blue eyes, not to mention excessive slimness and immoderate length of neck.
I can't remember her dress, only the exquisite sense of her slimness and daintiness comes back to me, of her dark hair in a long braid tied with a red ribbon, of her slender legs clad in black stockings of shining silk.
Her slimness was as it had pictured itself to him in the hot sands.
And he leaned back against his dunnage-sack, staring again at the witching slimness of the lovely Jeanne Marie-Anne Boulain as she calmly resumed her paddling in the bow of the canoe.
She was less a child now, standing so close to him; her slimness made her appear taller than she was.
His faintly smiling glance took in her girl-child slimness in its glittering sheath--the zephyr scarf floating from the snow of her bared loveliness--her delicate soft chin deliciously lifted as she looked up at him.
He found her to be seventeen, slender, with that strong slimness that only an English girl achieves; with a straight brown gaze and abundant dark chestnut hair.
Even at that distance, he distinguished a lively slimnessin the girlish outline that could belong to no other than the Incomparable Kathleen.
Her face turned toward him in a soft shadow, a line of light just defining the cheek's young oval, the lovely slimness of the throat affected Odd with a really rapturously artistic appreciation.
My shoulders were sufficiently broad to hold it nicely in place and it fell with a gracefulness upon my hips, but at my waist it collapsed on account of a slimness in that locality.
Behold, all roundness and slimness had disappeared and when the collar was added I could see that I was as beautifully habited as either Mr. Peter Scudder or that Mr. Saint Louis of the boat.
She ought to have known that only youth and slimness have the right to appeal to the feelings by indecent abandonments.
He was stout about the waist but his small blue eyes sparkled in his red face and Henrietta's slimness unromantically but practically approved of him.
They were such thin frail arms, the young body on which the dress hung loose was only a shadow of the round slimness which had been so sweet.
At length Lily withdrew her hand, and moved away a step, so that her white-robed slimness was outlined against the dusk of the branches.
For four days the Maluka argued with Chinese slimness before he felt satisfied that his cash was in safe keeping while the Wag and others did as they wished with our spare time.
Six or eight weeks more then pass in demanding explanations, and six or eight more obtaining them, and after that just as many more as Chinese slimness can arrange for before a settlement is finally made.
