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4 total sentences available.
His Stature is rather tall than ſhort; his Shape is the moſt exact that can be, nothing was ever more juſtly proportion’d; and though he cannot be call’d fat, he is plump enough not to have any Thing of that Boneyneſs which renders the Lean ſo diſagreeable; […]
Source: wiktionary
The two sisters worked all day and danced all night. Their slenderness was a topic of conversation. Soon Milly was engaged to a son of the wealthiest man in the city and Mag had almost captured a foreign prince who was visiting in the city. But despite her wiles, he had never quite stuck his foot in the trap. He had never become reconciled to the “boneyness” of American women, as he termed it.
Source: wiktionary
She has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.
Source: wiktionary
Peggy felt the soft bristles and the boneyness of his chin and then the very wet lips on her cheek, because she had turned her head.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include emaciation, gauntness, austerity, bone exposure, bone prominence.
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