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Sentences starting with thin

Thin a hand touched me face--the same as you, Coolin, the same as you. [11]
Thin I waked suddin', an' I felt a cold wind goin' over me-- three toimes; an' a hand was laid on me own face, an' it was cold an' smooth-like the hand uv a Sikh, William Connor dear. [11]
Thin at this season--thet'll tell you how your steers was pestered. [13]
Thin there's the love o' man an' wife. [11]
Thin vapors rose from the oasis and the other valleys at his feet, at first in heavy masses, then they parted and were wafted, as if in sport, above and beyond him to the sky. [10]
Thin and haggard, and with nothing left of his old self but his deep brown eyes and curling hair, and his unhappy name and fame, he turned back again to Pontiac. [11]

Sentences ending with thin

On every face you could see the words hieroglyphed: "It is a confession!--and paltry, lame, and thin. [5]
A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin. [5]
Honest, Miss Withersteen, them steers was thin. [13]
Their necks, with their wet, close-clinging manes, looked strangely thin. [2]
When I tell the old residenters that this thing went through without buying a vote or making a promise, they say, 'That's rather too thin. [5]
He is neither tall nor short; his face is clean-shaven, save for scanty, unobtrusive reddish tufts high on the cheeks; his hair is thin. [9]
Indeed, this north shore seemed to all the party rather bleak even in summertime, and the quality of the sunshine thin. [4]
She continues very much in the same state--I trust not greatly worse, though she is becoming very thin. [14]
Some people do make them very thin. [4]
Come, Madame, that is too thin. [11]

Short sentences using thin

He shrugged his thin shoulders. [9]
Fwaht do I do thin? [11]
He was thin and pale. [2]

Sentences containing thin two or more times

There was no tremor in the long, thin fingers nor at the lips--the thin, ascetic lips, as of a secret-service man--but in his eyes was a dark fire of purpose. [11]
It's rather thin, too thin altogether. [5]
The French foliage is thin, spindling, sparse; the grass is thin and light in color--in contrast. [4]
It's his freedom I wish I had--me that has to travel all day and part of the night, and thin part of the day and all night back again, and thin a day of sleep and the same thing over again. [11]

More example sentences with the word thin in them

Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
How thin and worn he was, and how large the eyes were in the face grown hollow with suffering! [11]
He recalled Barry's words: "She's as thin as she once wasn't, but twice as beautiful. [11]
A thin hand, without any preliminary knock, now opened the door and old Fraulein Van Hoogstraten walked up to her niece. [10]
Who cannot sympathize with him as he watched the thin and hesitating stream of people out of the corner of his eye as they came in at the door? [9]
It was the wish to do, to see how far this thing on my shoulders"--he touched his head--"and this great physical machine"--he touched his breast with a thin hand--"would carry me. [11]
But no, I will not wear that, for it is too slight a tissue, it hides nothing and I am now too thin for it to become me. [10]
Are there passages whose English is not poor and thin and commonplace, but is of a quality above that? [5]
Cornelia's lips grow white, and her pulse hardly warms her thin fingers,--but she has melted all the ice out of the hearts of those young Gracchi, and her lost heat is in the blood of her youthful heroes. [6]
They was thin when water and grass was everywhere. [13]
But at last, when it is brought to the test of close reasoning, there is not even that thin decoction of it left. [7]
I was thin when I went, but I was meagre indeed when I returned, my face looking grey and very old, with strange deep lines ploughed in it--my eyes stared unnaturally. [14]
They are beautiful when constructed with the large thin tiles the Romans were so fond of using. [6]
Shaggy, undersized horses were wading in the water, nipping off the thin spears of grass. [4]
The insurrectionary troop were locked into an open court upon bread and water, and as the usual room of detention of the establishment was too small for them all, for two nights they had had to sleep in a loft on thin straw mats. [10]
The other guests were a florid Miss Chamberlin, whose person loudly proclaimed possessions, and a thin Miss Longman, who rented one of the Silverdale cottages and sketched. [9]
On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements. [2]
When we arrived we found them crowded with stock, all of which was thin and hardly able to stand up. [5]
Straight at the waterfall the rustlers drove the burros, and straight through the middle, where the water spread into a fleecy, thin film like dissolving smoke. [13]
The easier course was the course for meaner souls, and she had not one vein of thin blood nor a small idea in her whole nature. [11]
Now his face was partly turned from her, and she saw how thin and pale it was. [11]
His grey lock was indeed somewhat thin and lacked the firm curl of the former ones; but every one who was not colour-blind must acknowledge that it was grey. [10]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]
This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots. [2]
The grate, which was a wide one, was wound and screwed up tight, so as to hold no more than a little thin sandwich of fire. [12]
One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable young man. [2]
But now, without warning, a sudden fierce yearning took possession of her: surprised and almost frightened, she stopped irresistibly and looked back at the thin little figure crouched beside the water, to discover that his widened eyes were still upon her. [9]
On the dark walls were Mrs. Forsythe's precious prints, and above the mantel a portrait of a thin, aristocratic gentleman who resembled the poet Tennyson. [9]
His thin, nasal voice was somehow absurdly penetrating as he addressed the chair. [9]
He was a very small man with a very high stock and spreading collar, a thin face, and large wide eyes. [11]
She was a very little, thin old woman, quick and quiet and watchful--his housekeeper. [11]
The thin lace vail which partially covered her face did not so much conceal as heighten her beauty. [5]
Those eyes lit up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. [2]
It was Mrs. Tyler's ambition to become thin (which was hitching her wagon to a star with a vengeance), and she invited our heroine to share her constitutional on the porch. [9]
They only remained two or three days, but it so fell out that she increased her lingering cold, by a long walk over damp ground in thin shoes. [14]
The thin fingers twined round it, and once more he came to his feet. [11]
Mr. Dow's thin trembling fingers clutched eagerly--it was his only passion--at this journal of his life. [11]
In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly. [2]
An old grass-grown trail followed the course of a shallow wash where flowed a thin stream of water. [13]
I had not touched either for a year, and now I could see that my fingers, as they closed on the food nervously, were thin and bloodless, and I realized that my clothes hung loose upon my person. [11]
All this was told in a whisper; only a thin wall of wood parted Ursula's chamber from ours. [10]
Tabus willingly submitted to this act of violence, and passing her thin left arm around her son's bull neck with her free hand, patted his bearded cheeks, wrinkled brow, and bushy, almost white hair. [10]
Impulse prompted her to tell her uncle what had happened; but at the first step she paused, and her thin lips uttered a firm "No. [10]
Swaying from side to side on his long, thin legs in his fluttering dressing gown, this lunatic was running impetuously, his gaze fixed on Rostopchin, shouting something in a hoarse voice and making signs to him to stop. [2]
Pierre was about to rise, but Macavoy suddenly pinned him to his seat with this question: "Did y' iver have a wife, thin, Pierre? [11]
He asked people to pass their hands through their hair (thus collecting upon them a thin coating of the natural oil) and then making a thumb-mark on a glass strip, following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession. [5]
But listen, thin, to me"--her voice got lower-- "for 'tis not the furst time, a thing like that, the lady she is-- granddaughter of a Seigneur, and descinded from nobility in France! [11]
He was thin to gauntness, ate ravenously of the food that was set before him, and throwing off his soaked moccasins, he spread his scalded feet to the blaze, and the steaming odor of drying leather filled the room. [9]
I do begin to despise thin world! [5]
It was strange to Denzil that the lumber-king, short, thin, careless in his clothes but singularly clean in his person, should have a son so little like himself, and also so little like his mother. [11]
But yet at times he was moved by a strange pity, for Olivier Delagarde was, in truth, far older than his years: a thin, shuffling, pallid invalid, with a face of mingled sanctity and viciousness. [11]
These were at times covered with a thin film of ice. [5]
His thin lips tightened, his narrow forehead seemed to grow narrower, and his very cassock appeared to contract austerely on his figure as he talked to the refugee of misfortune. [11]
There was Herr Tiefel with the little Dresden-blue eyes, red and round and jolly; and Hauptmann, long and thin and sallow; and Korner, redbearded and ponderous; and Konig, a little clean-cut man with a blond mustache that pointed upward. [9]
Wandering with her thoughts she did not notice the spruce bushes set up for signal, until she had stepped on a thin piece of ice. [11]
I reckon he thought he'd keep the thing up till he tired them people out, so they'd thin out, and him and the duke could break loose and get away. [5]
I can run this institution without any outside assistance, and I shall have a wife who will stand by me like a soldier through thick and thin, and never complain. [5]
Do they really think those little thin legs can do anything in such a slashing sweepstakes as is coming off in these next forty years? [6]
The soil is thin, the trees are slender, and one sees not much luxury or comfort. [4]
He was a thin, rather handsome, dissolute-looking fellow of middle height and about forty, in dandified dress. [11]
It is not thin sunshine, but a royal profusion, a golden substance, a transforming quality, a vesture of splendor for all these Mediterranean shores. [4]
Speaking of those thin pumpkin-pies kept in the cellar cupboard. [4]
Then his poor, thin old voice piped out something like this:-- 'Why, bless me! [5]
He laid his thin hand on her head, as though in benediction, and sat down beside her. [9]
A tall and thin gentleman, who had come out of the inn without a hat, was surveying the dispute with a keen delight. [9]
He gathered his thin fingers in a bunch at his lips, and made an airy salute to the warm space between the candles. [11]
Always the same thin film of some emotional non-conductor between them; always that kind of habitual regard and family-interest, mingled with the deepest pity on one side and a sort of respect on the other, which never warmed into outward evidences of affection. [6]
There was a thin chest of drawers on the other side, and the small coal stove that stood in the centre so nearly filled the remaining space that the two visitors were one too many. [4]
Some heroines grow thin and worn by the troubles which they are forced to go through. [9]
He still looked thin and somewhat awkward, but the tall youth promised to become a stately man. [10]
He was very thin and sallow, and his large feverish eyes added to the pitiful look of his refined face. [4]
She looks very thin and pale. [14]
Natasha had grown thin and pale and physically so weak that they all talked about her health, and this pleased her. [2]
She grew suddenly thin and a little worn, and her big eyes had that look of yearning which only comes to those whose sorrow is for another. [11]
He takes the thick and thin as it comes, as to pie, for instance. [4]
Not only did they so decide at that time, but they stuck to it during sixty years, through thick and thin, as long as there was one of the Revolutionary heroes upon the stage of political action. [7]
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]
I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. [2]
Does it please their thin ghosts thus to be dragged to the light of day? [6]
They still preserved their ample buckskin seat intact; and so his short pea jacket and his long, thin legs assisted to make him a picturesque object whenever he stood on the forecastle looking abroad upon the ocean over the bows. [5]
A vein in the young man's long thin neck swelled like a cord and went blue behind the ear, and suddenly his face flushed. [2]
He was wearing the white Horse Guard's cap and a military overcoat with a whip hanging over his shoulder by a thin strap. [2]
Sprightly notes from the song of a cafe chantant hovered on his thin, dry lips. [11]
The lights in the sky come out and shine through a thin mist-- there is nothing like that mist, it is so fine and soft. [11]
I'll go up the river to an aisy p'int a mile above, get in, and drift down to a p'int below there, thin climb up and loose the stuff. [11]
Clarke's Island (where the Pilgrims heard a sermon on the first Sunday), Saguish Point, and Gurnett Headland (showing now twin white lights) appear like a long island intersected by thin lines of blue water. [4]
The verdure of the Park was freshened to an incredible brilliancy by the dew, a thin white veil of mist was spread over the mirror of the waters, the trees flung long shadows across the turf. [9]
Czernowitz sat in the other room, talking to Jastro, a buzz of voices came from the hall through the thin pine panels of the door. [9]
But horse-racing is the most public way of gambling, and with all its immense attractions to the sense and the feelings,--to which I plead very susceptible,--the disguise is too thin that covers it, and everybody knows what it means. [6]
The vanguard of the mob, thrust on by increasing pressure from behind, tumbled backward the thin cordon of police, drew nearer and nearer the bayonets, while the soldiers grimly held their ground. [9]
The other was the mayor, a man with a thin sallow face and narrow beard. [2]
The dinner of the laborer is a dish of polenta, a few figs, some cheese, a glass of thin wine. [4]
It plays upon the hummocks, and they send out shafts of light at fantastic angles, and a thin blue line runs between the almost unbearable general radiance and the sea of ice stretching indefinitely away. [11]
This was often the first warning which the travellers received that the ice was becoming thin and dangerous. [1]
He remained about the farm for some months, but got exceedingly thin, and complained that he could not rest or eat, that his wife's spirit was haunting him, because he had not taken a life for hers. [1]
Precisely at ten the door opened and a tall, thin, loose-knit figure entered. [11]
And just as the dawn come in through the tall windows, a cat crawl out from somewhere, all ver' thin and shy, and walk across the floor; it make the room look so much alone. [11]
She had entered the damp cave chamber in a thin summer gown, and it now seemed to be continually growing colder and colder. [10]
You can see the color of his hair--faded, somewhat--by this thin shred that clings still to the temple. [5]

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