Then this explains Thy leanness, and thy prodigal moustache And dried-up curls.

Touching, truly, is the childish eagerness and bonhommie with which those Spaniards in fancy assume, as it were, between thumb and finger, this continent, deemed to be nothing less than gold, and feed with it the leanness of hungry purses; and the effect is not a little enhanced by the extreme pains they are at to say a sufficient grace over the imagined meal.

Involuntarily, I raised my hand to feel the leanness and sharpness of my face.

God gave her that to which she aspired, and which so many envy; but "He sent leanness into her soul.

He was thin, terribly thinnot the leanness of Byrne, but a grim emaciation which exaggerated the size of a tall forehead and made his eyes supernally bright.