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Ralph, who was a thickset clownish figure, arrived at his full strength, and conscious of the most complete personal superiority, laughed contemptuously at the threats of the slight-made stripling.

The Abbot 2008

He was a thin, sharp-faced, slight-made little man, whose keen grey eyes seemed almost to look through the person to whom he addressed himself.

The Monastery 2008

Walter Blake was an effeminate-looking, slight-made man, about thirty or thirty-three years of age; good looking, and gentlemanlike, but presenting quite

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Slender and scarcely tall, she belonged to the order of spare, slight-made women, who hide within their slim frames an endowment of profound passion far exceeding that of their more voluptuously-formed sisters, who never coarsen into stoutness, and who at forty are as disturbing as at twenty.

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

In pursuance of this design she had brought with her a brace of small pistols, together with a horseman's cloak, tied up in a bundle, and hung on the crutch of her saddle, and now borrowed from her nurse the attire of her foster-brother, which, as he was a slight-made lad, fitted her reasonably well.

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

An under-sized, slight-made girl, with a little face clearly, very clearly cut, but round in all its lines as yet; an intelligent face, an enthusiastic face, a face that could be very shrewd and practical, and, at the same time, a face that could be lavishly generous.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

Mrs. Brattle was a slight-made old woman, with hair almost white peering out modestly from under her clean cap, dressed always in a brown stuff gown that never came down below her ankle.

The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848

Walter Blake was an effeminate-looking, slight-made man, about thirty or thirty-three years of age; good looking, and gentlemanlike, but presenting quite a contrast in his appearance to his friend Lord

The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

His daughter, rather a pretty and slight-made girl, was very busy making shoes for her brothers out of cured skin.

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848

Mounted upon a slight-made, active thorough-bred, whose drawn flanks bespoke a long and weary journey, sat

Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839