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Sentences starting with slender

Slender date-palms covered with golden fruit were scattered in every direction over the fields, which were thoroughly irrigated by means of canals and ditches. [10]
Slender dragon-flies and smaller busy insects flitted buzzing from flower to flower, sucking honey from the brimming calyxes and bearing to others the seeds needed to form fruit. [10]
Slender is too corpulent a word to describe his thinness, and his stature was primeval. [4]

Sentences ending with slender

So little and slender. [5]
Is she robust, or slender? [5]

More example sentences with the word slender in them

He was a young Irishman, slender, tall, lithe, honest, truthful, and he never changed in all his life. [5]
This composition was written in a singular, sharp-pointed, long, slender hand, on a kind of wavy, ribbed paper. [6]
This slender, pliant woman would have been an admirable model! [10]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
Very slender limbs, with bends like a grasshopper's; sits a great deal, I presume; looks as if he might straighten them out all of a sudden, and jump instead of walking. [6]
The other man, whom his companion had called Isaac, was of a more slender figure--stooping, and high in the shoulders--with a very ill-favoured face, and a most sinister and villainous squint. [12]
A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
That, if it were needed, was the concluding evidence of her femininity, for it went fittingly with her sun-tinted hair and darkened, dilated eyes, the sweetness of her mouth, and the striking symmetry of her slender shape. [13]
His own funds were exhausted by this time, and Orion, with his rather slender salary, became the financial partner of the firm. [5]
The slender figure was poised on one foot; the other, covered to the ankle with the long robe, hovered in the air. [10]
When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
And presently it was dinner time and "Karl" arrived--a slender young fellow with a marvelous head and a noble eye--and he was as simple and natural, and as beautiful in spirit as his wife was. [5]
In the skiff was a youth of fourteen or fifteen years, holding by the slender twigs, the boat dragging at them all the time, and threatening to tear them away and go over the fall. [6]
Conspicuous among them was a slender white wooden spire. [4]
From where we viewed it, it seemed a slender and not very important, but certainly a very beautiful cascade, a band of silver in the mass of green foliage. [4]
It is a very intelligent tree and will detect the presence of hidden water at a distance of fifty feet, and send out slender long root-fibres to prospect it. [5]
Wolff had scarcely vanished from the street, and Els from the window, when a man's slender figure appeared, as if it had risen from the earth, beside the spurge-laurel tree at the left of the house. [10]
Dr. Hockiu gave us a ghastly curiosity--a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck--a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high. [5]
The slender fingers trembled in his clasp, and when, with loving anxiety, he drew her towards him, he felt the tremor of her delicate limbs, while her eyes expressed bitter suffering and terrible dread. [10]
It was marvelous to see her skim over it, leaping among its intricacies, and not breaking her slender legs. [4]
Only a determination to make out a case could, as it seems to me, have framed such an indictment as that which the secretary constructed by stringing together a slender list of pretended peccadillos. [6]
The widow hastened to her side, knelt clown by her, took the injured foot with tender care in her delicate and slender hands, examined it attentively, felt it gently, and then exclaimed with horror: "Good Lord! [10]
The executioner ascended to her side and wound chains around her slender body, and so fastened her to the stake. [5]
At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music. [2]
These rested in three-branched iron chandeliers, every portion of which, from the slender central shaft to the intricately-carved and twisted ornaments, had been carefully wrought by Aquanus with his own hand. [10]
The soil is thin, the trees are slender, and one sees not much luxury or comfort. [4]
The lives of these people hung in truth upon a slender thing--the bearing of one man. [9]
As Althea stood there, her delicate arms seemed to have lengthened and lost even their slight roundness, her figure to have become even more slender and incorporeal, and how strangely her thin fingers spread apart! [10]
Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence. [5]
In spite of the strong boots she wore they were alert, delicate, and shapely, and all her beauty had the slender fullness of a quail. [11]
The poet links the most remote objects together by the slender filament of wit, the flowery chain of fancy, or the living, pulsating cord of imagination, always guided by his instinct for the beautiful. [6]
Oleanders bloomed in the more damp and shady places; slender palms waved wherever the sun was hottest. [10]
The next year, the little tree blossoms full, and sets well; and in the autumn has on its slender, drooping limbs half a bushel of fruit, daily growing more delicious in the sun. [4]
Now Spond was the greatest and heaviest of the wolfhounds; Anap, rightly Anapaest, was a slender and swift greyhound; and whereas he found this pastime of names good sport he carried it further. [10]
I was of the greater height and stouter build, while she was more slender and supple; and for gentle sweetness I have never seen her like. [10]
On passing through the gate one entered a wide, paved court-yard, at the sides of which walks extended, closed in at the back, and with roofs supported on slender painted wooden columns. [10]
The hotel and the fortress at this enchanting season, to say nothing of other attractions, with laughing eyes and slender figures, might well have detained Mr. Stanhope King, but he had determined upon a sort of roving summer among the resorts of fashion and pleasure. [4]
She then laid the curling-irons on the dish of coals which stood on a slender tripod, and was about to twist it into ringlets; but Melissa, who had never resorted to such arts, refused to permit it. [10]
His companion, on the contrary, a man perhaps twenty years younger, of a slender and delicate build, was seldom still. [10]
But what struck the centurion and his comrades as most remarkable in their appearance were the flash and sparkle from their slender ankles, as the setting sun suddenly shot a fleeting ray through a rift in the heavy clouds. [10]
Clipper-built, sharp in the bows, long in the spars, slender to look at, and fast to go, the ship, which is the great organ of our national life of relation, is but a reproduction of the typical form which the elements impress upon its builder. [6]
It was on the bank of the crystal, rocky stream, at the foot of high and slender falls, which poured into a broad amber basin. [4]
She noted indifferently that they passed close under shady, bulging shelves of cliff, through patches of grass and sage and thicket and groves of slender trees, and over white, pebbly washes, and around masses of broken rock. [13]
Add to this that Kunz was a well-favored, slender youth; but as compared with Herdegen's splendid looks and stalwart frame he looked no more than common. [10]
He knew, too, that he owed it to Daphne; the matron's fingers could not be so slender and delicate, and he would have been more than glad to raise them to his lips and thank her; but he denied himself the pleasure. [10]
He chose the tallest and most stately of the slender dames of Venice to lead in the dance, or through the throng of masks and citizens intoxicated with the mirth of the carnival. [10]
Two infolding wings, stretching towards the water, enclose a court, and through the slender white pillars of the peristyle one beholds in fancy the summer seas of Greece. [9]
But you are standing on a spot, where I would rather see my enemy than you; lay your hand confidently in mine--it is no longer white and slender, but it is strong and honest--grant me this request and you will never rue it! [10]
Instead of the spider, a slender, lank woman, with long, outstretched bare arms, and fingers spread wide apart, fluttering hair, and wandering eyes again stood before Ledscha. [10]
John used to spend hours in the top of a slender hickory-tree that a little detached itself from the forest which crowned the brow of the steep and lofty pasture behind his house. [4]
Did a woman's soul rebound more quickly after being crushed beneath the burdens of the heaviest suffering, or was hers of a special character, and her slender body the casket of a hero's nature? [10]
There are in some localities natural springs which give out slender streams of oxygen. [6]
She noticed a slight limp in his gait and a convulsive twitching of his eyelids; his slender, almost transparent hand, she reflected, was that of a sick man, and pain and fever, no doubt, had thinned his hair, which had left many places bald. [10]
The oak-trees were slender, none more than half a foot thick, and they grew close together, intermingling their branches. [13]
He found the slender trireme pervaded by a restless stir. [10]
It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob. [5]
He saw the slender sickle of the waning moon-the same moon which at the full had been mirrored in the sea when he had gone into the water to save Selene. [10]
Armed with these slender powers, she hurried away, commissioned to bring either old Mr Garland or Mr Abel, bodily, to that apartment. [12]
The youngest, a slender Nubian, undertook the task; but he had scarcely approached the hole when he started back, calling: "There is a human being there who seems to be alive. [10]
By day the slender little flame of honourable betrothed love flickers for him; by night it blazes more brightly for yonder Swiss scoundrel. [10]
Trembling in every slender limb, shaken with grief, and overwhelmed with sorrow, the slight shepherdess stood before him, and he felt as if he must help her. [10]
His figure is slender and only slightly above middle height; but how erect and noble is his bearing, how symmetrically his pliant form is developing! [10]
She was still sitting before a looking-glass with a dressing jacket thrown over her slender shoulders. [2]
That round, lithe, sinuous figure was as full of dangerous life as ever lay under the slender flanks and clean-shaped limbs of a panther. [6]
We were all silent the rest of the way, climbing the slender trail through the forest over the gap into the next valley. [9]
The same slender shape, the same cunning, fierce look, smoothed over with a plausible air. [6]
He trembled slightly, seized her slender right hand so impetuously that she shrank back, raised it first to his lips, then to his eyes, and held it there for several minutes. [10]
Maria's slender figure seemed to have grown taller, and the blue eyes, swimming in tears, flashed proudly. [10]
I can still see every ring on those slender, white fingers. [10]
As straight and rigid as steel rose the delicate spear-pointed silver spruces; the aspen leaves, by nature pendant and quivering, hung limp and heavy; no slender blade of grass moved. [13]
His personal appearance rendered it an easy matter to believe in the sincerity of their words, for the carriage of his slender, vigorous form revealed all the pride of the Castilian noble. [10]
Now he again remembered the hour when she had laid her slender hand in his. [10]
In one green recess a slender Mercury hastily adjusted his sandal. [9]
It was a rather slender argument, but the farmers did not seem to detect it. [5]
At last she raised her head, her eyes flashed into his, and at the same instant he felt two slender arms clasped round his neck. [10]
Two beautiful English pointers and a slender hound were moving about and sometimes disturbed the repose of the two Wachtersbach badger dogs, who were trained to keep side by side everywhere--in the room as well as in hunting. [10]
Short stories, slender poems, steel engravings, on a level with the common fashion-plates of advertising establishments, gilt edges, resplendent binding,--to manifestations of this sort our lighter literature had very largely run for some years. [6]
As his wife persisted in her silence, he went nearer to her, laid his hand on her slender fingers that concealed her face, and said: "I believe you are angry with me! [10]
His figure might perhaps once have been tall and slender, but it was now so bent and shrunk by age, privation and suffering, as to look unnatural and dwarfish, in comparison with the size of his head. [10]
And she stood passively, her eyes half closed, while he clasped the string around the lace collar that pressed the slender column of her neck and kissed her. [9]
When Jerd led out this slender, beautifully built horse Lassiter suddenly became all eyes. [13]
Jane Withersteen took one flashing, woman's glance at Bess's scarlet face, at her slender, shapely form. [13]
The moonlight played on the delicate tufts that crowned the slender papyrus-stems, filmy mist, like diaphanous brocade of violet and silver, veiled the trees; and owls that shun the day, flew from one branch to another on noiseless, rhythmic wings. [10]
She was lying on the bed, her face hidden in the pillows, and her slender body shook as in an ague fit, while she sobbed low but right bitterly. [10]
The slender bag of Thursday's letters contained none for me. [9]
In the case of the other method mentioned for raising poultry, your friend takes along a covered vessel with a charcoal fire in it, and you carry a long slender plank. [5]
The very mists of the future seemed to break before his importuning gaze, and his eyes seemed indeed to behold, against the whitening dawn of the spiritual age he predicted, the slender spires of a new Church sprung from the foundations of the old. [9]
At the end of the broad, monotonous Ludwig Strasse, and yet not at the end, for the road runs straight on into the flat country between rows of slender trees, stands the Siegesthor, or Gate of Victory, an imitation of the Constantine arch at Rome. [4]
The slender hope of her life then went out. [4]
A magnificent garment of fine cloth, richly broidered with Flanders velvet, flowed about her slender body. [10]
With little tremblings of all her slender body she rocked to and fro on her knees. [13]
By-and-by a thought occurred to him which pointed to a possibility--the slenderest of slender possibilities, certainly, but still worth considering, for lack of any other that promised anything at all. [5]
My time has now gone by; and I have growing claims upon my thoughts and upon my means, slender and precarious as they are. [4]
Was it really nothing but foolish vanity that led me to the conviction that you were thinking of me also when you engraved on the ribbon the despised spider-for which, however, I always felt a certain regard--with the delicate web beneath its slender legs? [10]
Frau Traut did not venture to determine what made the blood mount into Pyramus's cheeks when Barbara at his entrance held out her slender white hand, for she had left the room immediately after his arrival. [10]
And--no, Gorgias was not mistaken-the slender frame of the lovely woman, whose exuberant vivacity had so often borne him and others away with it, trembled as if shaken by deep and painful emotion. [10]
Her falcon eyes never gazed at the ground, but were ever fixed upwards or on the bystanders, and nevertheless her slender bare feet never went nigh the eggs in the wildest spinning of her dance. [10]
He felt every movement of her supple figure and the strain upon the slender arms, but this could not be transferred to the book. [4]

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