long-backed

Mr. Fang was a lean, long-backed, stiff-necked, middle-sized man, with no great quality of hair, and what he had, growing on the back and sides of his head.

Style in Fiction 2009

Good, height-adjustable seats (though no lumbar support), adjustable steering, tight fit and finish, quality materials, reasonable boot space and rear legroom (though the long-backed may find their heads brush the roof) and an excellent, simple, clear dashboard layout and lighting.

Dependable or exotica? 2009

The building on the left of the enclosure was a long-backed erection, now used for spar-making, sawing, crib-framing, and copse-ware manufacture in general.

The Woodlanders 2006

But she too had looked on and seen how jocund was the play; she also had acknowledged that that running in the ring, that stout hitting of the ball, that innocent craft, that bringing back by her own skill and with her own hand of some long-backed fellow, would be pleasant to her as well as to others.

Castle Richmond 2004

Buggy and harness — the latter eked out with bits of string and an old bootlace — were coated with the dust of months; and the gaunt, long-backed horse shuffled through a reddish flour, which accompanied them as a choking cloud.

Australia Felix 2003

He was a small black man, long-headed and long-backed, with remarkably prominent eyes, a bulging brow, nose pertly turned up, and lean jaws almost unconscious of beard.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

He loved his children too even as an owl loves its owlets, seeing in them his own image multiplied and perpetuated; for they were a sturdy, long-backed, bandy-legged little brood.

The Alhambra 2002

He loved his children too even as an owl loves its owlets, seeing in them his own image multiplied and perpetuated; for they were a sturdy, long-backed, bandy-legged little brood.

The Alhambra 2002

Sitting down stiff and long-backed in the vacant chair, he answered:

Burmese Days 2002

Under the trees sauntered four people -- equally divided -- a lady and a gentleman; the ladies brilliantly dressed, stout, and handsome -- the gentlemen also in the most fashionable costume: one tall and thin, the long-backed

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various