fine-drawn

There was the same lithe, spare build and fine-drawn bones; the same chiseled lines of the face; the level brows and wide hazel eyes; and the same dark hair, curved smooth across the brow.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

And when we point out the blunder you have nothing but a sneer for our fine-drawn distinctions and scornful laughter for our suggesting that a Socialist does not understand.

The Catholic Doctrine of Property Part One 2008

Quoth I, ‘for that I’m fine-drawn wasted, waxed thin,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

She had the fine-drawn face of an intelligent Jewess.

Archive 2007-04-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

She had the fine-drawn face of an intelligent Jewess.

Page to Screen Jaime J. Weinman 2007

I must invest my elementary spirits with a little human flesh and blood — they are too fine-drawn for the present taste of the public.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Behold him, too fine-drawn to sweat, too pressed to vaunt the drugs in his little brass-bound box, ascending Shamlegh slope, a just man made perfect.

Kim 2003

For the rest they were a broad-faced, low-browed people, blunt-featured beside the fine-drawn Arabs whom generations of in-breeding had sharpened to a radiance ages older than the primitive, blotched, honest Englishmen.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

His taut, fine-drawn face had the fierce and lonely beauty of a proud hawk, and he was frightening in his masculinity.

Dearly Beloved Putney, Mary Jo 1990

Cadfael had visions of that face terminating in a short, pointed beard, and with fine-drawn moustaches over the long, fastidious lips.

The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982