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It was a twisted and stunted and nameless piece of life that shambled like a sickly ape, arms loose-hanging, stoop-shouldered, narrow-chested, grotesque and terrible.
THE APOSTATE 2010
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It is incontrovertible that the children grow up into rotten adults, without virility or stamina, a weak-kneed, narrow-chested, listless breed, that crumples up and goes down in the brute struggle for life with the invading hordes from the country.
THOSE ON THE EDGE 2010
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The wincing rugby fan and war hero Lord Baden-Powell (three years from publishing Scouting for Boys) warned of the Roman Empire's fall, seeing all around him just "thousands of young men, pale, narrow-chested, hunched-up, miserable specimens smoking endless cigarettes".
How the original All Blacks went down in the annals of history Frank Keating 2010
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Her father, a mild-tempered, narrow-chested, anaemic little clerk, domestic because of his inherent disability to mix with men, had done his full share toward giving the home an atmosphere of sweetness and tenderness.
Chapter 2 2010
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He was narrow-chested and skinny, and his hands were always cold and fishy.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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It was a twisted and stunted and nameless piece of life that shambled like a sickly ape, arms loose-hanging, stoop-shouldered, narrow-chested, grotesque and terrible.
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The tireless, vigilant forewoman kept a sharp lookout for incipient hysteria, and once led a narrow-chested, stoop-shouldered young thing out of the place in time to prevent a collapse.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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It was a twisted and stunted and nameless piece of life that shambled like a sickly ape, arms loose-hanging, stoop-shouldered, narrow-chested, grotesque and terrible.
“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008
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I think the image he held of himself was light and quick and proud—an Arabian, or a Thoroughbred, anything but a narrow-chested, old workhorse.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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The orphanage director was a stooping, narrow-chested man with a pleasantly lined face.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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