slender-limbed

As for Inez, who had not only a pretty face but was graceful and slender-limbed as a greyhound, Inez no longer needed to worry over artificial charms, or to dwell self-consciously on her development; serious admirers were not lacking, and with one of these, a young man some eight years older than herself, she had had for the past three months a sort of understanding.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

Nor did she see the tall, slender-limbed man who had been driving, and whose questing hazel eyes had descried her almost immediately, slip from his seat behind the steering-wheel and come across the grass towards her.

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

Her left hand was clasped by that of a child: a tiny, shadowy shape, sweet-faced and slender-limbed.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

The son of Thunder was little like his sire, but a slender-limbed racer, graceful, nervous, eager.

Riders of the Silences John Frederick

Master Pigeon, the successor of Master Weeks, was of better stature, but loosely put together, and slender-limbed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

He was a striking-looking man, tall, and built with the slender-limbed grace of a foreigner.

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

Quietly, with the least possible action, Doña Rita moved it to the other side of her motionless person, Slowly, the fantastic women with butterflies 'wings and the slender-limbed youths with the gorgeous pinions on their shoulders were vanishing into their black backgrounds with an effect of silent discretion, leaving us to ourselves.

The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

Quietly, with the least possible action, Doa Rita moved it to the other side of her motionless person, Slowly, the fantastic women with butterflies 'wings and the slender-limbed youths with the gorgeous pinions on their shoulders were vanishing into their black backgrounds with an effect of silent discretion, leaving us to ourselves.

The Arrow of Gold 1919

And the corroding part of it was that he had been outwitted by a woman, that he was being defied by a physical weakling, a slender-limbed thing of ribbons and laces whose back he could bend and break across his great knee.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

She moved forward doubtfully, a slip of a slender-limbed girl, full of the unstudied charm and grace of youth.

Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912