lankiness

For all his lankiness he was tough, and good nursing pulled him through.

Already she was tall for her age, with something of that lankiness which marks the early development of a really fine figure.

It made Oleg look hump-backed in spite of his lankiness.

The intensity, the handsome lankiness, the electric aura as the lineup worked around to his appearance were summer constants.

Not a lot of lankiness, not a lot of wasted motion, close to the core.

His lankiness flopped into a chair.

His youthful lankiness was concealed by clothing, but his height was obvious.

Lara was too young, but Mariel, just sliding into the awkward lankiness between childhood and adulthood, was not.

Billy Joe's older twin brothers were tall and rawboned, although their lankiness wasn't quite as pronounced as his.

He was already taller than most Yek, and his stature displayed the kind of lankiness which promised both strength and agility.

John surveyed them: the alert figure of his son, Spooks's gangling lankiness, Steve's rather square shortness.

Even after more than a score of years, the Lord of Dubaria retained the same lankiness he had possessed as a youth.

Seated beyond a desk was a languid-looking man; he rose to display his lankiness as Whistler Ingliss entered.

The lankiness of the body, the droopy mustache and the leatheriness of the still-handsome face contribute to the gunslinger image.

It was too dark to recognize features behind those full-face masks, but MacKenzie's big-boned lankiness was a welcome sight indeed.

Marshall slid into a booth and Sanden, folding his lankiness and putting one hand in a puddle of spilled stickiness, followed suit.

"Nothing is simple," says Wideman, rearranging his fit lankiness in an office chair at Baruch College in Manhattan.

Adams and Shakur, along with Rodgers and freshman Marcus Williams, provide Arizona with speed and lankiness on the outside.

His wife was short and Mediterranean-dark and full-figured to his mediumtall lankiness and sandy-blond coloring; she flung herself up onto the box of the wagon and kissed him.

He braced himself against pitch and roll and looked outward-tall, the lankiness of adolescence still with him; brown hair, gray eyes, a rather long and regular face which Saxo had burned dark.

He looked particularly dapper in his traditional blue and white yachting outfit; with his impressive height, lankiness and powerfully rugged face he appeared not unlike Gary Cooper off the range.

She settled herself and spent a few seconds studying my grizzle-topped lankiness, almost like a friendly challenge, before she curved her lips upward a very little and answered, "You can hear me out, sir.

"Protean Acts," to music by Fritz Van Orden, contrasted Mr. Creach's forceful, weighted way of moving with Mr. Koester's lankiness.

She had been slender to the point of lankiness when I had first met her; in seven years she had fleshed out somewhat in breast and thigh and was, if anything, more seductive than before.

There was no doubt who his father was - he had Meke's lankiness, hair, and square chin, though he was smaller than Mekeal had been at that age, and his shoulders weren't as broad.