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"Spareness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... entered into conversation with them. They rowed across to the opposite bank, where they landed and there came up the watch and guardians of the peace with chains, which they put round the robbers' necks. They chained me among the rest of them; and, O people, is it not a proof of my courtesy and spareness of speech, that I held my peace and did not please to speak? Then they took us away in bilbos and next morning carried us all before Al- Mustansir bi'llah, Commander of the Faithful, who bade smite the necks of the ten robbers. So the Sworder came ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... regular features, clean shaven like a priest or an actor, vaguely resembling both, inclining towards the hieratic rather than to the histrionic type. He dressed always in black, and the closely-buttoned jacket revealed the spareness of his body. He was met often in the evening, going to dine at the Cock; but was rarely seen walking about the Temple in the day-time. It was impossible to meet any one more suasive and agreeable; his suavity was ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore
... was too timid to ask any deliberate questions. She felt drawn to this lady, she looked so young and human. Perhaps she was not so wonderful in evening dress, but her figure was boyish in its slim spareness—in these serge travelling clothes she hardly ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn |
Words linked to "Spareness" : bonyness, scantness, poorness, thinness, wiriness, slenderness, slightness, sparseness, gauntness, bodily property, scrawniness, skinniness, emaciation, meagerness, fatness, exiguity, spare, meagreness, scantiness, maceration, boniness, slimness |
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