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Examples
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They are lean-looking animals, but don't get deceived by their thin legs.
Record number of British racehorses being slaughtered for meat exports 2011
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And a lean-looking Beefy scored two goals, including a darn impressive header.
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Through a gap under an arch in a far corner of the courtyard came a one-eyed, lean-looking villain in Afridi dress who leaned on a long gun and stared at them under his hand.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Venice; and there is a long market area, with columns down the middle, from which hung shreds of rather lean-looking meat, that would do wonders under the hands of Cattermole or Haghe.
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They came down in the rocky area to the south, and a few minutes after the shrieking engines shut down three squads of fast, lean-looking infantry came double-timing onto the beach.
Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984
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With great difficulty I stencilled long lean-looking panthers stalking round the top as a sort of fresco.
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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Near the western door a knot of brown-faced, lean-looking men were standing, and one started forward at the sight of Jeffreys, hesitated a moment, and then put forth his hand.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan
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There were dogs in plenty, ugly and lean-looking curs lying on the straw under the waggons or loafing around the shops in search of plunder, but none at all like Pat.
Dick Lionheart Mary Rowles Jarvis
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They had stopped at the stoop of her lean-looking rooming house.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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He was surveying his new white shelf on which the matronly Mrs. Beeton seemed to incline towards the sober black New Testament and give a cold shoulder to the lean-looking "Questing Cells" and the slim "Parsifal."
Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924
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