"I am afraid, my dear lady," he remarked, "that you have not had long enough experience to comprehend the slenderness of Mr. Philpot's mental equipment.

A black ribbon was bound about her waist, and seemed only to emphasize the slenderness of her form.

And now Matthews noted more in detail the feminine slenderness of the man and the large, placid eyes.

I wonder whether a middle-aged husband ought to be considered as legally married to all the accretions that have overgrown the slenderness of his bride, since he led her to the altar, and which make her so much more than he ever bargained for!

They are unwilling to sacrifice the slenderness of their waists, the smallness of their feet, the prettiness of their movements, the brilliancy of their eyes; and it is by all these, nevertheless, it is especially by the look, that they might avoid easy detection.

In the little church of S. Ambrogio we have seen a tablet to the memory of Mino, who lies there, not far from the grave of Verrocchio, whom he most nearly approached in feeling, although their ideal type of woman differed in everything save the slenderness of the fingers.

Perhaps an inch or two taller than her mother, she was of a marked slenderness; a completed slenderness, I might saya slenderness so palpably finished as to details that I can only describe it as felicitous in the extreme.