George, a lanky boy of fourteen, did chores on neighboring farms, and the others, Samuel, Clara Belle, Susan, Elijah, and Elisha, went to school, when sufficiently clothed and not otherwise more pleasantly engaged.
The lanky fellow stood hesitatingly, his left hand busy with his moustache.
His lanky figure and clumsily-fitting clothes, his feeble placatory smile, the twitching movements of his long red hands, all contributed to the effect of his defencelessness.
aches and pains affable and kindancient and modern arts and sciencebag and baggage black and whitebucket and spade brothers and sistersbow and arrow, bread and buttercrack and roar cup and saucerdrunk and sober fair and squarefar and away far and near fire and sword first and foremostfirst and last fish and chipsfree and easy friend and foeforward and backward fun and pleasurewife and children good or ill()great and small
He is dark and lanky, has a long beard.
He was a Tajik, a lanky, dark man with a weather-beaten face, narrow shoulders, and a long neck punctuated by a protruding Adam's apple that only peeked from behind his beard when he turned his head.
Assef's father, Mahmood, was a short, lanky sort with dark skin and a narrow face.
He looked like a hollyhock, and all the people he made drawings of looked like hollyhocks, so lanky were they.
