"As long as she goes, it's all right," added Laura, glancing after the lanky figure of Amanda Peabody as the girl swung off in the other direction.

"But there is no mistakin' your meanin', and besides," Mrs. Corbett went on, "we have others besides ourselves to think ofthere's the child," indicating the lanky Peter Rockett.

The odor was also connected with negro protracted meetings in Hooker's Bend, and the Harvard man remembered a lanky black preacher waving long arms and wailing of hell-fire, to the chanted groans of his dark congregation; and he, Peter Siner, had groaned with the others.

Dogs reappeared from under the cabins and stretched in the sunshine; black children came out of hiding and picked up their play; the frightened Ophelia came out of Nan's cabin across the street and went her way; a lanky negro youth in blue coat and pin-striped trousers appeared, coming down the squalid thoroughfare whistling the "Memphis Blues" with bird-like virtuosity.

The negro looked at the hobbledehoy for several seconds before he recognized in the lanky youth a little Arkwright boy whom he had known and played with in his pre-college days.

His companion, the angular and lanky Slim, remained silent.

One of the men who had brought Meeker's organ aboard had the wheel, a long, lanky cockney he was, from what I could see of him through the window of the pilot-house.

In the one he escapes appearing too long and lanky in body, and in the other he obscures a lack of becoming inches that tends to give him a dumpy appearance.

THE FINISH Through the windows and the door the cowpunchers fled from the red spurt of the flames, each man for himself, except Shorty Kilrain, who stooped, gathered the lanky frame of Calamity Ben into his arms, and staggered out with his burden.

He is over a pound and a half, and rather lanky; but kill him we must, for by the size of his head we can see that he is an old fish, and as bad as a pike for eating fry.

A traveller observes, that the white settlers, who live in the woods, soon become sallow, lanky, and dejected; the atmosphere of the trees does not agree with Caucasian lungs; and it is, perhaps, in part, an instinct of this, which causes the hatred of the new settlers towards trees.

Lanky Grassendale School.

Innie Suhoi I. Lanky Liverpool Institute.

The lanky six-footer had eased naturally into the position of pilot under David's direction.

"Ack!" exclaimed the lanky Starman, stumbling backward, knocking over a couple of small boxes as his arms flailed.

Then we came on a party of coatis, which look like reddish, long-snouted, long-tailed, lanky raccoons.

Lanky Lawson, the boy from nowhere.

Lanky Lawson with the one-ring circus.

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Lanky Lawson with the one-ring circus, by Harry Mason Roe, pseud.

(The Lanky Lawson series)

Lanky Lawson and his trained zebra.

Lanky Lawson and his trained zebra.

These people were wretched specimens of their race, lean and lanky, and one was suffering from ophthalmia, looking quite a miserable object; they had come here in search of turtleas I understood.

Still you eight-headed and lanky-limbed monster, you Sprawl and monopolise, spread and devour.