a slip of a boy
a slip of a girl

A slip of a boy, he was short, and at age 12, just 63 pounds.

The other was a slip of a boy, a pretty lad with big dark eyes who wastimid and fearful.

"It might be tae late," the innkeeper said despondently, obviously reluctant to put his faith in a slip of a boy.

Mr. Laurie was much amused, and well pleased with Dan's courage and skill, and let him have a hand in all future performances; for he set about Charlie's education at once, saying that he was not going to be outdone by a slip of a boy.

"And all because a slip of a girl needs an alibi," he said.

Gladys, she was only a slip of a girl, fourteen years old at the time.

They sent me a slip of a girl instead of a real warrior.

"I haven't come all this way to be unmanned by a slip of a girl."

My complete loss of control, over a slip of a girl I've known forever.

Fine if your maid is a slip of a girl, but hardly appropriate for a mature woman.

"You're just a slip of a girl won't be much use for heavy labor around here.

And there you were, a slip of a girl, in your greatcoat with epaulets.

How could a slip of a girl find anything good about him when his life's endeavor had been to live up to his own reputation?

Camille, stepping through the door, just a slip of a girl, her face pale as milk.

What's a slip of a girl like you doing out alone in weather like this?"

'Because a slip of a girl says so?' demanded Michael.

It was excellent shooting even for a veteran charioteer, let alone a slip of a girl.

A slip of a girl, Hannah, who is 13, got tossed off a treadmill after turning up the speed too fast.

You're just a slip of a girl.

Kim hated to be outdone by a slip of a girl, but enough was enough.

Foronod may think he'd make a better monarch than a slip of a girl, and many would agree.

No wonder: ever since she quit home for the frontier as a slip of a girl, she's had to face down any number of threats.

He made her look like a slip of a girl, but he leaned against her a little as he stood.

"Granted the words themselves are invisible, but I don't need the occult to tell me when a slip of a girl is lying.

But if she-" "/ can manage a slip of a girl, thank you!"

It may be that Myrelle will find a slip of a girl just raised to sisterhood - was that not what you said?

He thought for a moment that he knew who she was, then he realized that this was only a slip of a girl.

He was clearly surprised to have been bested by such a slip of a girl, but Siang waved him away without looking at him.

I hauled myself into the family carriage we'd arrived in, beside a slip of a girl with thick Coke bottle glasses who was my designated driver.