Sentence Examples with the word a lean

As she stepped off the walk to cross an alley, a lean figure stepped out of the saloon.

I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.

He was much older with a full head of silver hair, a similar shade of dark eyes, and a lean build.

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His elbows were propped on his knees, the trench falling back to show a lean body, flat stomach and muscular thighs outlined by the soft material of his pants.

He was a lean man with gleaming silver- blue eyes, teeth filed into points, and an aura so cold she stepped away.

Chief among those who did this fetching and carrying was Captain Bildad's sister, a lean old lady of a most determined and indefatigable spirit, but withal very kindhearted, who seemed resolved that, if SHE could help it, nothing should be found wanting in the Pequod, after once fairly getting to sea.

Aside from its large, glowing green eyes, the creature appeared near-human with a lean body covered in some sort of leather jumper.