"Flabby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rise—then suddenly to fall, flabby again. There was a light hiss like an inspiration and expiration of air, ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... ladder, in spite of his fat and flabby muscles quivering in terrible spasms, he ran up the long steel structure with a supreme ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... chosen two very respectable young women in Christchurch, one as a cook, and the other as a housemaid. The cook, Euphemia by name, was a tall, fat, flabby woman, with a pasty complexion, but a nice expression of face, and better manners than usual. She turned out to be very good natured, perfectly ignorant though willing to learn, and was much admired by the neighbouring ...
— Station Amusements • Lady Barker
... wilderness to tame and a new land to develop. For these ends they sacrificed much. It is for us to attack with equal courage the evils of the present. Life has outwardly become easy for many of us; our spiritual muscle easily becomes flabby. But there are new tasks equally importunate, equally worthy of our loyalty and sacrifice, hard enough to stir our blood. The times call for new idealism, new courage, new effort; the purpose of this book will not ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake
... greater difficulty in recognizing the little and shrunken senora who was near the poet. Her flabby flesh was hanging from her skeleton like the ragged fringe of past splendor; her head was small; her face had the wrinkled surface of a winter apple or plum, or of all the fruits that shrink and wither when they lose their juices. "Dona Pepa!..." The two ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
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