It was interesting to come from the street and the crowds of Parsis and natives all so slenderly built and watch the British youth in shirt sleeves and thin tweeds playing billiards-they were not above the average physique of their class, mostly young fellows who had already been through campaigns-and you noted the muscles showing through their thin clothes and compared them with native figures, and it did not seem surprising that one of them could keep in order quite a number of such wisps as the billiard markers for example.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Yet he grew slenderly and well, and had such grace and tenderness in his nature that all who saw him loved him.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
She was looking fair and dainty in a gown of some thin white stuff, through which her neck and arms showed slenderly.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley