The man was somewhat younger, but of a figure equally wild; his frame was long and lathy, but his arms were remarkably short, his neck was rather bent, he squinted slightly, and his mouth was much away; …
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Lathy
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In this way he was dragged out; and as he crept up the bank, with the wet pouring from his apparel, which now clung tightly to his lathy limbs, he was greeted by the jeers of Nicholas.
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And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy.
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'Twas just a bit o' lathy old plank which Jim had throwed acrost the brook for his own conveniences.
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