单词 | thin-bodied |
例句 | In hot and dry summer weather four or five days will prove quite sufficient for the very small and thin-bodied species. Butterflies and Moths (British) Before his fellows could grasp the significance of what was taking place three more of their number were down, each with a thin-bodied arrow protruding from his chest or back. The Return of Tharn But all this struggling had loosened the palisades, and there were one or two openings in them through which the thin-bodied Spaniards, pushed on by their comrades, were able to pass. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 The small clerk was a thin-bodied, weak-minded, timid boy, of about twelve years of age and of humble origin. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication First of all, there came early in the summer the thin-bodied ones, some of a steely-blue, some dark with clear wings, and with them those with the wings clouded with dark patches. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser For old maids, like old thin-bodied wines, instead of growing more agreeable by years, are observed, for the most part, to become intolerably sharp, sour, and useless. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish He was a small, thin-bodied man, with little gray eyes, light hair and aquiline nose. The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution Its Tamil name is theivangu, or "thin-bodied;" and hence a deformed child or an emaciated person has acquired in the Tamil districts the same epithet. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 Its Tamil name is thaxangu, or "thin-bodied;" and hence a deformed child or an emaciated person has acquired in the Tamil districts the same epithet. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Gray Stoddard was talking to an older woman who had come with her daughter--a thin-bodied, deep-eyed woman of forty, perhaps, with a half-sad, tolerant smile, and slow, racy speech. The Power and the Glory Weasel-gutted; thin-bodied; a weasel is a thin long slender animal with a sharp face. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Mostly they were thin-bodied, thin-bearded Mexicans, black and haggard and starved. Light of the Western Stars |
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