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straight-bodied

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  • Deliberate, too, the contrast with his tall, straight-bodied younger brother, who looked neither to left nor right, but walked straight behind Colum to the wooden chair and took up his station standing close behind.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Mark didn't have enough hip action; he was too straight-bodied.

    Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood 2008

  • If you're throwing a worm, Kirkpatrick says, make it a straight-bodied worm rather than a broad-tail that might wrap a limb.

    Out On a Limb 2002

  • If you're throwing a worm, Kirkpatrick says, make it a straight-bodied worm rather than a broad-tail that might wrap a limb.

    Out On a Limb 2002

  • Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored Highlander in the prime of his life is breathtaking.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • Eager, shining, tanned faces, eyes alert, heads erect, straight-bodied and straight-talking men one by one took seats which were assigned to them by delegations.

    The Story of The American Legion George Seay Wheat

  • They are tall, straight-bodied and thin, with small long limbs.

    A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

  • He used to wear an old-fashioned blue, straight-bodied coat with brass buttons, a buff vest, and nankeen pantaloons which were said to have come down as an heirloom in his family from

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

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