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Long-bodied   /lɔŋ-bˈɑdid/   Listen
Long-bodied

adjective
1.
Having a relatively long body.






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"Long-bodied" Quotes from Famous Books



... cousins were alone again speeding up Fifth avenue in an automobile, a long-bodied foreign car that had been put at the disposal of Mrs. Burton by the New York agent of Mr. Hogg. The Omaha suitor for the hand of the fair Helen had also thrown in a red-headed French chauffeur, which is travelling a bit in the matter of chauffeurs. But as he understood only automobile ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie

... won't," said Miss Heron; "your legs are long and ill-shaped, and your coat is short, and you fly awkwardly, and you are not even rich. You would have no dainties to feed me with. Off with you, long-bodied one, ...
— Old Peter's Russian Tales • Arthur Ransome

... little place the English call Downing Street. It astonishes them as a young turkey does a hen that has hatched it, thinking it was a chicken of her own. She don't know what in the world to make of the great long-legged, long-bodied critter, that is six times as large as herself, that has cheeks as red as if it drank brandy, an imperial as large as a Russian dragoon, eats all the food of the poultry-yard, takes a shocking sight of nursing when it is ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton



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