He was whisking around at a great rate, his long legs looking very spindly under his fat black body.
A barb wire fence tacked to spindly cottonwood trees marked the line of an irregular homestead; and the Ranger swung into a gate extemporized from barb wire on two adjustable posts.
Some, on the theory that the female generally obtains a more vigorous initial start in life, and in very infancy presents a more robust appearance, heroically weed out weak and spindly seedlings with occasionally happy results.
Drifting into shallow water the sharp end of the spindly radicle bores into the mud.
A hulking sort of fellow, far less spindly than most of his race, he might have come from the polar outposts beyond the Martian Union.
The distended head, ghastly of face with its green glowing eyes, wobbled upon a long, spindly neck.
The pillars are spindly and tall, and sustain round arches.
The church is modern with a spindly tower and spire.
When he threw open his long, spindlyarms and screeched a loud, "Ahh!
Monte Bingham turned slowly around and looked toward the big Martian, Zan Blekeke, who was sitting up with his spindly legs outstretched near the center of the enclosure.
Hawksworth had confronted his driver, Nayka, a dark-skinned low-caste man with the spindlylimbs of the underfed, and demanded to know why.
They like a rich, well-dressed soil, and are generally poor and spindly on a starved one.
Even in an unused one they are likely to be too damp, or too dry, or to grow spindly in their effort to reach the light.
Your Snapdragons are either hideously splotchy or crudely magenta; your pink Canterbury Bells are blue and white; your Wallflowers are spindly and colourless.
If we are to make the 3:10 train, Spindly will have to make good time.
Old Spindly seemed to feel spryer than usual and trotted along the sandy road at such a pace that in a very little while they had reached the end of it at the beach.
When they had mounted, Spindly started off as suddenly as hours before it had stopped.
But it was nothing new to run into Nancy Codiss, the spindly fifteen-year-old next door.
Through that slit, as you stand on the opposite curb, you look over a few spindly black chimney-stacks in the foreground directly to the Metropolitan Tower, booming up suddenly and unexpectedly.
Boller's greeting was kindly, but he made unmistakable his superiority in years and wisdom as he lapsed into an arm-chair and toyed with the broad black ribbon adorning his glasses, while I was condemned to sit upright on a spindly chair.
I, sitting on my spindly chair, very upright, heard the cryptic number three ringing in my brain.
The spindly forest columns rise about, pallid in a wall of gloom, draped with withered stuff and dead cordage.
At a little distance the growth appears a mass of spindly oaks and beeches, though with a more vivid and lighter green foliage.
At this point I walked across to one of the spindly red chairs and sat down.
The furniture was red brocade, with spindly legs, and there was a tall palm in a pot, which had nothing to do with the rest of the room, by itself in a corner.
For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments.
Drawn up in front of the building was a small delivery wagon, with a spindly horse and a boy.
Somehow the spindly horse did not inspire Milly with confidence, nor the small boy.
