slimness

In America this ideal of masculine slimness is explained by our fondness for thinking of our men as lean wrestlers with frontier conditions, for the fact of a frontier is still a pleasant figment of our fancy.

Stylish Stouts 1969

It might with truth be described as a "slim volume," but its slimness is more than counteracted by its superficial size, which is foolscap.

Try Anything Twice 1938

In America this ideal of masculine slimness is explained by our fondness for thinking of our men as lean wrestlers with frontier conditions, for the fact of a frontier is still a pleasant figment of our fancy.

Stylish Stouts 1919

Unsurprisingly, from the moment you take it out of its box the slimness is the most eye-catching feature about the V2220.

TrustedReviews Site-wide Feed Ardjuna Seghers 2010

She was slight, without that look of slimness which is common to girls, and especially to American girls.

The Duke's Children 2004

The length and the slimness which is part of the nature of this kind of poulp explain the exception.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

He is inclined to that East Anglian characteristic akin to Boer "slimness," and it is easy enough to understand that the breach between him and his

Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth

But our men are getting used to tricks of this kind, and the only result of this "slimness" was that they allowed the enemy's infantry to approach, quite close before they swept them down with magazine fire.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

The Boer was between two fires, and he would need all his "slimness" to pull him out of trouble.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

There was, indeed, no knowing how far or how ingeniously the ramifications of "slimness" had extended, and, to be even with them at all, our warriors have needed to add to the courage of lions the astuteness of weasels!

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke