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He was only fourteen years old, slightly and wirily built; but his life had been lived among the mountains, his father had taught him no small measure of "sailoring," and he was not particularly afraid of heights.

The Banks of the Sacramento 2010

He watched the bristles shining wirily in the weak light as she tipped three times and licked lightly.

Ulysses 2003

It was a shock to find something very like the old excitement singing wirily in the air of the Javelin again, like sympathetic vibrations in the taut strings of some invisible harp.

And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

The bare arms, executed with machine-like precision, flowed wirily from shoulders to clasped hands.

Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945

At last they stopped for lunch, choosing a spot where a hedge rose wirily against the midday sky, and spread the rugs on the frozen grass.

The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935

He came off the hill one evening in the middle of June to find a canoe drawn up on the beach, two Siwashes puttering over a camp fire, and a tall, wirily slender, fair-haired man who might have been anywhere between twenty-seven and thirty-five sitting in the front doorway, talking to Doris.

The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

He was only fourteen years old, slightly and wirily built; but his life had been lived among the mountains, his father had taught him no small measure of "sailoring," and he was not particularly afraid of heights.

The Banks of the Sacramento 1922

He watched the bristles shining wirily in the weak light as she tipped three times and licked lightly.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Wherefore, Link had grown to a wirily weedy and slouching manhood, almost as ignorant of the world beyond his mountain walls as were any of his own "critters."

His Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1907

He was only fourteen years old, slightly and wirily built; but his life had been lived among the mountains, his father had taught him no small measure of

The Banks of the Sacramento 1904