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On the polished floor, in front, lay a rug of dark blue cloth, heavily bordered with gold; upon it were represented in conscientious profile a number of lank-limbed Egyptians performing some mystic rite. To the right of the altar stood the priest Manetho, apparently engaged in prayer. Balder spoke to him. "This is more like a tomb than a wedding hall.
Julian Hawthorne - Idolatry: A Romance

And in the attic I found one day a very old forgotten map after the fashion of a bird's-eye view, representing the Crimea, that fascinated me and kept me for hours navigating its waters with a pin. My father was a lank-limbed man in easy shabby tweed clothes and with his hands in his trouser pockets.
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The New Machiavelli

It was a strange affinity between the lank-limbed, cloudy-brained enthusiast at one end of the porch and the shallow-eyed, tobacco-chewing old Scofield at the other, but a real affinity, striking something deeper in their natures than blood-kinship. Whether Dode shared in it was doubtful; she echoed the "Poor David" in just the voice with which high-blooded women pity a weak man.
Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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