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Updated: June 27, 2025
Only a well-set-up, long-limbed, active-looking man of forty talking with two ladies near a window remarked aloud, with an unexpected depth of feeling: “Eighteen stone, I should say, and not five foot six. Poor fellow! It’s terrible—terrible.”
A long-limbed, slender, full-breasted, laughing woman, with square shoulders and the carriage of one much accustomed to the saddle, she looked with curiosity at Katrine, who was standing aside beneath the elderberry-bushes to permit them to pass. "As I was saying," Anne had just remarked, "when you act as you have done since I have been here, Frank, it's always a woman.
Thereupon the long-limbed clerk verified the taunt of "counter-jumper" by clearing it at a bound. The bully protested in a torrent of unrepeatable words. "I see," said the champion of decency, "you want a whipping, and I may as well give it you as any other man."
He had extracted a promise from her to ride with him at dawn, and he meant to keep her to it. She got up and pulled aside the blind. A wild view-halloa greeted her, and she dropped it again sharply; but not before she had seen Nick prancing about the drive on a giddy, long-limbed Waler, and making frantic signs to her to join him.
For the château of Fontainebleau Cellini executed the nymph in bronze, reclining among trophies of the chase, which may still be seen in the Louvre. It is a long-limbed, lifeless figure, without meaning a snuff-box ornament enlarged to a gigantic size.
I assured the angry Englishman that I would have a thorough search made in the town; and although in no way satisfied, he rode off after his king with all his force, carrying with him the long-limbed man whom we had picked up.
A lark wouldn't be at home where a vulture roosted." "And so the lark flies away to the cuckoo," snarled the old man, with flecks of froth gathering at the corners of his mouth; for the sight of this handsome, long-limbed youth enraged him. "Give her back to me. You know where she is," he persisted. "You've got her hid away.
Down the sides of the board sat the three sons: Stephen, tall and slender, grave-faced, quiet but observant; Louis, of a somewhat lesser height but broad of shoulder and deep of chest, his bright face alert, every motion suggesting vigour of body and mind; Ted Edgar the youngest, a slim, long-limbed lad with eyes eager as a collie's for all that might concern him this was the tale of the sons of the house.
Never once did he show sign of hearing their verbal tornado; but eventually he sprang to his feet, and with infectious gaiety literally chaffed them to madness. I have often thought that the long-limbed Tory member for Hertford, who was then private secretary to his uncle, Lord Salisbury, must have taken note of the methods of Mr.
There was something appealing about her, in the big childish eyes, and in the well-bred voice with its faint hint of a French accent. The girl she looked at could hardly have been called pretty she was slender and long-limbed, with honest grey eyes and a sensitive mouth that seemed always ready to break into smiles.
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