The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

Banana board is a term used to describe skateboards made of polypropylene that were skinny, flexible, with ribs on the underside for structural support and very popular during the mid-1970s.

This includes a greater use of precision fences, such as corners and " skinny jumps ", that are very good tests of the rider's ability and the horse's training, but allow the horse to simply run around the jump if the rider misjudges it.

In her Famous Studios design, Olive Oyl is very tall and very skinny with tightly wound hair and enormous feet.

I can get hot blacks, but also blacks are now starting to get uppity and go for the skinny white ones and the Asians, which is very offensive to me that they don't stick with their roots — the chubby white girl!

Using a dark slide which has been cut in half, turning a standard format into a long, skinny panoramic format is simple and very cost effective.

The result was a very tall and skinny rocket, quite different from the Saturn that eventually emerged.

He is very quiet, thoughtful, passive, and is noticeably skinny.

As a kid I was very small and thin, almost skinny ( Hebrew: דק, dak ; daq ).

At this level of play, the typical size of the point forward would be very tall as well as skinny and lengthy.

He wrote in his autobiography It Doesn't Take A Hero, that Trưởng " did not look like my idea of a military genius: only five feet seven … very skinny, with hunched shoulders and a head that seemed too big for his body … His face was pinched and intense … and there was always a cigarette hanging from his lips.

Tim Minogue, who was one of her first co-editors before becoming a journalist at Private Eye magazine, recalled a “ likeable, skinny, hollow-eyed girl who was very ambitious ”.

Kaman became very skinny as a result.

He was very skinny but had the same moves and looks as his older brother, Barry.

" Despite her weight, her arms and legs are very skinny.

Physically, he is very tall and skinny.

David was very skinny and had blue eyes and black hair.

A kind of Laurel and Hardy pairing, Bruno is short, chubby, and very anal about all kinds of laws and regulations, while getting Werner and Andi locked up for any of their various misdemeanors ( such as speeding, drunk driving, and illegal vehicle modifications ) is his eternal dream, whereas Helmut is tall, skinny, and asinine, usually helpless when he is not ordered around by Bruno.

Appears as a humanoid with rocket engines from the waist down, sharp claws for hands, a fly-trap mouth for a torso, and a series of eyes connected to very skinny stalks.

His teeth were sharp and terrible, stomach lean and skinny and stature very tall and slim.

They are easy to work with, not messy ( as paint and markers are ), blunt ( removing the risk of sharp points present when using a pencil or pen ), non-toxic, very inexpensive, and available in a wide variety of colors.

Benign moles are usually circular or oval and not very large, though some can be larger than the size of a typical pencil eraser.

In comics, a pencil, often pluralized as " pencils ", refers to a stage in the development where the story has been broken down very loosely in a style similar to storyboarding in film development.

To ensure accuracy, Blindfire used a very narrow " pencil " beam and tracks both the target and missile.

" A gifted student in the pursuit we also at humbler distance love, made pilgrimage here, and was engaged in making a drawing of its interesting painted story, when death suddenly stayed the work of the artist, snapping the very pencil in his fingers, and instantly translated him, from picturing the earthly image of the Founder of these courts below, into his immortal presence in the great temple above ... His cunning fingers are mouldering in the dust below, and moss and decay are stealthily obliterating his record outside, but the fidelity and truth of his works remain bright and undimmmed, forming his best and most enduring monument ".

Its implementation can vary from being very manual ( pencil and paper ) to being formalized as part of build automation.

It was from his father that Leech inherited his skill with the pencil, which he began to use at a very early age.

One critic wrote, " Winslow Homer is one of those few young artists who make a decided impression of their power with their very first contributions to the Academy ... He at this moment wields a better pencil, models better, colors better, than many whom, were it not improper, we could mention as regular contributors to the Academy.

It became very popular, and led to many commissions for portraits, which he executed, in pencil.

Numerical methods have been around much longer than computers have ( In the 1920s Richardson developed some of the finite difference schemes still in use today, but they were calculated by hand, using paper and pencil, by human " calculators "), but they have become very important through the availability of fast and cheap personal computers.

) Today many pencillers prefer to create very meticulously detailed pages, where every nuance that they expect to see in the inked art is indicated in pencil.

" That very year he returned to comics full-time inking Oliffe on Spider-Girl # 55 ( March 2003 ) and then launching into a long stint inking or doing finished over pencil layouts by Ron Frenz from issues # 59-100 ( June 2003-Sept. 2006 ).

Although a definitive diagnosis can be difficult to make, the disease can be recognized by regurgitated food in the enclosure, liquid feces, and consequently a very thin body and tail ( also called " pencil tail ").

Sometimes the lesson is very literal ; the garden of Saihō-ji featured a pond shaped like the Japanese character shin ( 心 ) or xīn in Chinese, the heart-spirit of Chinese philosophy, the newspaper character is 心 but it's the full cursive, the sousho style ( 草書 ) for shin that would be used ; sousho, this well-named " grass writing ", would be appropriate for gardening purpose indeed, for in cursive writing the character shapes change depending on the context and of course, since it is cursive, depending on the person-that is to say that the character would be done in a single pencil stroke, it would match the state of mind and the context rather than the newspaper print.

** A very modern one has a mechanical engine that twists the pencil lead 9 degrees counter clockwise every time the lead is pressed on to the paper to keep the lead 50 % less broad than the common propelling mechanical pencils, resulting in uniform thickness of the lines written onto the paper.

Figure drawing can be done very simply, as in gesture drawing, or in greater detail, using charcoal, pencil or other drawing tools.

This scanning of the microprobe beam can be imagined to be like using a very fine tipped pencil to draw your design on a paper or in a drawing program.

State schools simply couldn't afford the medium and, suspicious of the very idea of " self-expression " in general, favoured the coloured pencil, a cheaper German invention then widely promoted in Europe as a means to instill work discipline in young children.

Now Darwin " first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ", the '" Pencil Sketch "' of his theory.

The pencil skirt quickly became very popular, particularly for office wear.

Activities such as climbing ladders and riding bicycles can be very difficult in a pencil skirt.

Dood gets himself in and out of various Duck Amuck-esque situations, with the aid of Hand, a disembodied hand that uses his pencil to draw ( sometimes ) helpful things onto the screen for Dood's use, such as helping Dood cheat in a skating race against his rival by drawing a booster behind Dood. But usually hand draws very bad things.

Imagine the detector completely covered by an opaque sheet that has a pinhole in it, that allows a very narrow pencil beam to irradiate one del.

Jacko himself ( and his parents ) appear as very crudely drawn, black and white pencil sketch cartoons, while his settings and most other characters are portrayed with still photographs or live-action footage.