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The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.
The thin man waved the gun again.
The thin man moved swiftly to the phone and dialed a number.
The thin man stopped his pacing long enough to glance at the clock.
In the basement the sheriff took him to a small, dingy office occupied by a tall, thin man informal in rolled-up shirt sleeves.
Next to the Blackwells, Titus had owned the island most, and she and Adelia had often stood in front of him, silenced by his terrible years -- a scanty man with a thin beard and very deep-set blue eyes like a mariner, more aged than possible.
Abu Bakr was a thin man with white skin.
He was a man with fair skin, thin, emaciated, with a sparse beard, a slightly hunched frame, sunken eyes and protruding forehead, and the bases of his fingers were hairless.
Mozart's physical appearance was described by tenor Michael Kelly, in his Reminiscences: " a remarkably small man, very thin and pale, with a profusion of fine, fair hair of which he was rather vain ".
* " A man came up to me today and said, ' Doodles, your hair is getting thin ," and I said, " Well, who wants fat hair?
Gaiman crafted the new character from an initial image of " a man, young, pale and naked, imprisoned in a tiny cell, waiting until his captors passed away [...] deathly thin, with long dark hair, and strange eyes.
Morpheus usually appears as a tall, thin man with bone-white skin, black hair, and two distant stars looking out from the shadows where his eyes should be.
In the writings of Derleth and a few other latter-day Cthulhu Mythos authors, the King in Yellow is an Avatar of Hastur, so named because of his appearance as a thin, floating man covered in tattered yellow robes.
Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly, has black crew-cut hair, black eyes ( similar to those of Benito Mussolini's ), heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth and long pointed hands and feet.
Grave of Samuel Dashiell Hammett in Arlington National Cemetery, ( Section 12, Site 508 ) A lifetime's heavy consumption of alcohol and cigarettes worsened Hammett's tuberculosis contracted in World War I, and then according to Hellman " jail had made a thin man thinner, a sick man sicker.
Thanks in part to experimental archaeology, it is generally believed that the pilum's design evolved to be armour-piercing: the pyramidal head would punch a small hole through an enemy shield allowing the thin shank to pass through and penetrate a distance sufficient to hit the man behind it.
* Don Chuma: Condorito's best, most loyal friend, he is a tall, thin, kind man man who helps Condorito to solve some of his problems, especially the ones related to money.
* Chuleta: A tall, thin, jolly man with huge teeth, long sideburns, a thin mustache and green skin.
Balaclava revealed the allied weakness ; their siege lines were so thin they did not have sufficient troops to man them.
A scene of her swimming underwater wearing only a thin, white T-shirt and bikini bottom helped make the film a box office success, leading the producer Peter Guber to say, " That T-shirt made me a rich man ".
The second young man, now in a meadow, dies while swiping at a nude figure which suddenly disappears into thin air.

thin and said
Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.
But his mother told the story over and over, till her `` Martin said he was sorry '' was as much a part of her as the shape of her thin, pallid ears.
The Æsir said Fenrir would quickly tear apart a thin silken strip, noting that Fenrir earlier broke great iron binds, and added that if Fenrir wasn't able to break slender Gleipnir then Fenrir is nothing for the gods to fear, and as a result would be freed.
Variety said, " Although a thin premise endangers its credibility at times, Green Card is a genial, nicely played romance.
Some say that the name is short for " GRin & sUK " (" laugh & sigh " in Danish ), but Piet Hein said he felt that the word had come out of thin air.
While the Ring did not initially corrupt him as it had its previous owners, it was beginning to affect him ; over the years, it had begun to prey on his mind when out of his sight, and he lost sleep and felt " stretched out and thin ", as he said to Gandalf.
According to ancient historians such as Herodotus, they have been said at times to wear a thin tiara over their face, in order to give them a faceless, menacing look, coupled with their ' deathless ' reputation.
The episodes were set mainly in the duo's activities at Bedrock High School in the prehistoric town of Bedrock with their friends Moonrock ( the school genius and resident inventor ), Penny ( a slightly overweight girl obsessed with being thin ), Wiggy ( who planned her day according to what it said in the daily horoscope ), snobby Cindy ( Pebbles's rival ) and her equally snobby boyfriend Fabian, Bad Luck Schleprock ( whose favorite catchphrase was, " Oh wowsie wowsie woo woo.
* As a counter-example, when two people know each other, e. g. as penpals, but never have the opportunity to meet face-to-face, it can be said that their yuánfèn is too superficial or thin.
He said he often saw them flying over Orgonon – shaped like thin cigars with windows – leaving streams of black Deadly Orgone Radiation in their wake, which he believed the aliens were scattering in order to destroy the planet.
When faced he is said to vanish into thin air.
Some digital versions of Bodoni are said to suffer from a particular kind of legibility degradation known as " dazzle " caused by the alternating thick and thin strokes, particularly from the thin strokes being very thin at small point sizes.
" And Anthony Wood, after declaring that Fell " was exceeding partial in his government even to corruption ; went thro ' thick and thin ; grasped at all yet did nothing perfect or effectually ; cared not what people said of him, was in many things very rude and in most pedantic and pedagogical ,"-- concludes with the acknowledgment, " yet still aimed at the public good.
" 49ers said it was " too thick to drink, too thin to plow ".
It is said their necks are so thin a slight breeze might snap their heads off.
Upon release, the album received good reviews but was widely criticized for Stein's production, which was said to have a thin mix.
Argento claimed he had heard about Fulci's miserable circumstances at the time ( he said he was shocked at how thin and sickly Fulci appeared at their meeting ) and wanted to offer him a chance for a comeback.
Lincoln said that Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine was a do-nothing sovereignty that was " as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.
It is said that inside every fat girl, there is a thin girl waiting to get out, ( and a lot of chocolate ) -- according to Perdita, she is that girl.
Arnold said the objects moved as if they were a saucer skipping across water, but also described the shape as thin, flat, and disc-like or saucer-like ( also like a " pie-plate ," " pie-pan ," and " half-moon shaped ")-- see Kenneth Arnold article for detailed quotes.

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