The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

The thin man said, `` That-a-way ''.

The thin man waved the gun again.

The thin man moved swiftly to the phone and dialed a number.

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.

Its major isotope < sup > 231 </ sup > Pa has a specific activity of 0. 048 Ci / gram and primarily emits alpha-particles of the energy 5 MeV, which can be stopped by a thin layer of any material.

It has excellent optical transparency in the range 0. 35 – 12 µm, and its radiation is primarily due to alpha particles, which can be easily stopped by a thin cover layer of another material.

The long thin loops of tape hanging in these vacuum columns had far less inertia than the two reels and could be rapidly started, stopped and repositioned.

Franklin noted that soon after they passed the freezing point of water ( 32 ° F ), a thin film of ice formed on the surface of the thermometer's bulb and that the ice mass was about a quarter inch thick when they stopped the experiment upon reaching.

The researchers used a combination of thin copper strip inserts and a " frozen pin " technique, where the tool is rapidly stopped in place.

At first her tears formed a thin thread of water, but she never stopped to mourn.

" Lopez's exceptionally thin voice hasn't stopped her from cranking out a steady stream of pop hits, which continues with " Get Right ," the maddeningly catchy first single from her new Rebirth.

One BBC critic wrote in 2000 that " The plot is thin and the pacing is askew ".

And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Her legs hung down long and thin as she sat on the high stool.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

It was like a long thin line drawn through a pink circle.

In southern Europe, between the Israeli Republics and the Icelandic-speaking peoples of northern Europe, was a thin but long stretch of territory called March.

The aardvark has a long, thin, snakelike, protruding tongue and elaborate structures supporting a keen sense of smell.

Many species have an erect woody stem which is covered with persistent dried leaves unless there have been fires, topped by a crown of long thin leaves.

If there is refraction at a collective spherical surface, or through a thin positive lens, O ' 2 will lie in front of O ' 1 so long as the angle u2 is greater than u1 ( under correction ); and conversely with a dispersive surface or lenses ( over correction ).

The telson is flanked by a pair of long, thin caudal rami.

Even within a type of fiber, there can be great variety in the length and thickness of the fibers ; for example, Merino wool and Egyptian cotton are favored because they produce exceptionally long, thin ( fine ) fibers for their type.

More exactly, they are long thin streamers that project outward from the Sun's north and south poles.

T2 weighted magnetic resonance scan image showing bilaterally symmetrical hyperintensities in Caudate nucleus ( small, thin arrow ), Putamen ( long arrow ), with sparing of Globus Pallidus ( broad arrow ), suggestive of Extrapontine myelinolysis.

The Japanese destroyer commander finished with, " Yesterday I looked at myself in a mirror for a long time ; I was disagreeably surprised to see my face thin, full of wrinkles, and as old as though I were fifty.

The earliest such was that in Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his Masque dating from December 1616, in which Christmas appears " attir'd in round Hose, long Stockings, a close Doublet, a high crownd Hat with a Broach, a long thin beard, a Truncheon, little Ruffes, white shoes, his Scarffes, and Garters tyed crosse ", and announces " Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe?

* The jack is a thin, rectangular piece of wood which sits upright on the end of the keylever, held in place by the registers ( the upper movable, the lower fixed ) which are two long strips of wood running in the gap from spine to cheek with rectangular mortises through which the jacks can move up and down. Figure 2.

The hind legs are longer than their fore limbs, their hands are long and thin, and their thumb cannot be opposed to the other fingers correctly.

It has long been believed that ice is slippery because the pressure of an object in contact with it causes a thin layer to melt.

Even within a type of fiber, there can be great variety in the length and thickness of the fibers ; for example, Merino wool and Egyptian cotton are favored because they produce exceptionally long, thin ( fine ) fibers for their type.

Seen in cross section, the blade would form a long, thin triangle, or where the taper does not extend to the back of the blade, a long thin rectangle with one peaked side.