slender-bodied

These remarkable insects, which have been described by Mr.W. W. Saunders as a new genus, under the name of Elaphomia or deer-flies, are about half an inch long, slender-bodied, and with very long legs, which they draw together so as to elevate their bodies high above the surface they are standing upon.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

And six pair of slender-bodied, delightful bestowers of bliss

Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003

And six pair of slender-bodied, delightful bestowers of bliss

Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003

And six pair of slender-bodied, delightful bestowers of bliss

Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 1998

And six pair of slender-bodied, delightful bestowers of bliss

Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 1998

And six pair of slender-bodied, delightful bestowers of bliss

Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 1985

And six pair of slender-bodied, delightful bestowers of bliss

Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 1985

Doubtless, too, there are many skittish Geometrae or slender-bodied moths, and Pyrales, or Pearls, which are easily frightened, the females of which will rush from their places of concealment even before they are prepared to start on the mission of ovipositing.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

Great golden and rufous bees blundered down and gouged out bucketsful of mud; while slender-bodied, dainty, ebony wasps, after much fastidious picking of place, would detach a tiny bit of the whitest clay, place it in their snuff-box holder, clean their feet and antennæ, run their rapier in and out and delicately take to wing.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

It was six weeks later that a slender-bodied young Nicaraguan known as

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912