She was slim, but not angular, and had a reposeful grace and a decided attraction for both men and women.

But if the cook knoweth the manner that Lord Carlile does mix and pepper it, let that manner be followed to the smallest fraction of a pinch!" On Buying Old Books By some slim chance, reader, you may be the kind of person who, on a visit to a strange city, makes for a bookshop.

Finally that door swung open again; the wide-shouldered, slim-hipped silhouette of Miss Hassiebrock moved swiftly and surely through the kind of early darkness, finding out for itself a wall telephone hung in a small patch of hallway separating kitchen and front room.

I expected to play to a slim audience on the opening night, but instead of that I had a fourteen hundred dollar house.

She came to him across the trim, cool lawn, leisurely, yet with a resilient tread that attested the vigor of her slim young body.

He stared blankly at the slim girl who confronted him with hand on hip.

One of the men, the slim lad, had a pistol, but I saw by the way he handled it that it was unprimed.

Her little hand played with the slim glass, and her eyes had all the happy freedom of childhood.

And slim, fair lads who waited to acclaim, With gladsome shout, the huntsmen when they came With burdens of the chase ...

On the other hand, Julia, the slim chambermaid, who would have been delighted with such employment, and who would have undoubtedly refreshed herself on each excursion upstairs with a lengthened gaze from the window, was condemned to the polishing of silver and dusting of plates and glass in an obscure back pantry, which contained but one window, and that commanding a prospect of a dead wall.

Fyfe stood silent, hands resting on his hips, watching until Monohan pushed out a slim speed launch from under cover of overhanging alders and set off down the lake.

Over it rose the noisy belfry of the college, the square brown tower of the church, and the slim yellow spire of the parish meeting-house, by no means ungraceful, and then an invariable characteristic of New England religious architecture.

If the manners of different ages are injudiciously blended together,if unpowdered crops and slim and fairy shapes are commingled in the dance with volumed wigs and far-extending hoops,if in the portraiture of real character the truth of history be violated, the eyes of the spectator are necessarily averted from a picture which excites in every well regulated and intelligent mind the hatred of incredulity.

During the summer of 1902 a long, slim, white craft, with a single brass smokestack and a low deck-house, went gliding up the Hudson with a kind of crouching motion that suggested a cat ready to spring.

Cornelia Blimber, the doctor's daughter, a slim young lady, who kept her hair short and wore spectacles.

" The little speaker who announced this logic so dogmatically, was a slim delicate boy with white face, and large brown eyes, and a crop of dark unruly curls that had a trick of defying the hair cutter's skill, and of growing so erratically that "Master Roy's head," was pronounced quite unmanageable.

Eagerly he tore aside brambles and stones with small thought of his scratched, bruised hands, and at last had the satisfaction of viewing a hole big enough to drop his slim little body through.

Then the wires of the field-telephones and telegraphs on their elegantly slim bamboos were running alongside us.

The slim corner towers are scarcely hurt.

(In Carter, W. Montana Slim, deluxe ed.)

slim and smooth; nothin' fancy, but a reg'lar thoroughbred, just like her.

Do I look as spiff as all that?" "Like a slim young cavalier; very dashing and wonderful, Peter Pan." "Not a bit like Dorothy?" "Well, the least bit; but more like Peter Pan." "I was getting tired of being just Dorothy.

But Dorothy looked like a kind of stylish boy-girl, slim and yet not quite as slender as she had appeared in her ordinary clothes.

" Billy flushed a little, and for answer took down his gun and belt from where they hung upon the wall, buckled the belt around his slim middle and picked up his hat.

Well, it was right enough too, as Smithy had nursed him through small-pox one winter up in the Shoshonee country, and mighty near starved himself to death feeding Shadder out of the slim grub stock, when the boy was on the mend; still some people would have forgot that.