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    lank


    1. His face is long and thin, his hair receding and lank, unlike anyone that she has ever been close to before, but his eyes pierce her


    2. with lank brown hair, a tiny nose, and soft gray eyes


    3. It had grown a great deal from the thin, lank strands that illness and the meager rations on the voyage left it


    4. The pigs in question were two tall, lank animals, supposed to belong to Bertie Shakespeare Drew's father, which had been haunting the roadside by the manse for a couple of weeks


    5. hands, didn’t feel his lank hair cling to his neck as he dizzily swiveled to look


    6. Maybe some tall, young kid, with long, lank, Vince-like hair, sweeping up


    7. He was exceedingly lank with narrow shoulders


    8. Sweat beaded his forehead, his black curls were lank and matted showing the elegant shape of his skull


    9. His long black hair hung in lank strands about his shoulders, giving him a wild appearance


    10. When he turned his head she caught the blaze of wild eyes among the lank strands of black hair

    11. “There’s this guy in our history class named Stanley Lank,” Sylvia said


    12. white man with lank hair, and water was dropping from his


    13. The tall, lank Third was sat behind his desk, studying some business


    14. The harbour master, a round, red buoy of a man with lank, shoulder-length hair that looked like it had tar in it, looked askance at the slight, nerdy looking figure before him


    15. of her favorites, a dreamy young guy from Bild with lank, soft hair, an air of the Green


    16. His hair was long and wild, an unkempt mass of stringy, dirty strands that hung lank down his back


    17. · The Reality of Great Taymour - Lank Appears in the Twenty - First Century - (part 1)


    18. Shortly will be Issued· The Reality of Great Taymour - Lank Appears in the Twenty - First Century - (part 2)


    19. His hair hung lank and unwashed around his ears


    20. Yes, YOU! With the lank blond hair,

    21. Oily hair looks lank and lifeless, and picks up dust and dirt very easily


    22. She was wet to the skin by this time, and you wouldn't have recognised her pretty hair, all dark now and sticking together in lank strands


    23. Wet or not wet, soaked and dripping as she was, ridiculous scarecrow with her clinging clothes, her lank hair, she must go after him, must instantly get the horror of misunderstanding straight, tell him how she had meant only to help over that window, tell him how she had thought he was saying dreadful things to her when he was really only afraid for her safety, tell him how silly she had been, silly, silly, not to have followed his thoughts quicker, tell him he must forgive her, be patient with her, help her, because she loved him so much and she knew--oh, she knew--how much he loved her


    24. She was poking so vigorously that she didn't hear the door open, especially not with that rattling and banging of the window going on; and on getting up and seeing the figure standing there panting, with strands of lank hair in its eyes and its general air of neglect and weather, she gave a loud exclamation


    25. Now it hung in lank, greasy strands


    26. " Rocinante was marvellously portrayed, so long and thin, so lank and lean, with so much backbone and so far gone in consumption, that he showed plainly with what judgment and propriety the name of Rocinante had been bestowed upon him


    27. The worthy carrier, whose unholy thoughts kept him awake, was aware of his doxy the moment she entered the door, and was listening attentively to all Don Quixote said; and jealous that the Asturian should have broken her word with him for another, drew nearer to Don Quixote's bed and stood still to see what would come of this talk which he could not understand; but when he perceived the wench struggling to get free and Don Quixote striving to hold her, not relishing the joke he raised his arm and delivered such a terrible cuff on the lank jaws of the amorous knight that he bathed all his mouth in blood, and not content with this he mounted on his ribs and with his feet tramped all over them at a pace rather smarter than a trot


    28. About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,


    29. They went to meet him, and in answer to their inquiries about Don Quixote, he told them how he had found him stripped to his shirt, lank, yellow, half dead with hunger, and sighing for his lady Dulcinea; and although he had told him that she commanded him to quit that place and come to El Toboso, where she was expecting him, he had answered that he was determined not to appear in the presence of her beauty until he had done deeds to make him worthy of her favour; and if this went on, Sancho said, he ran the risk of not becoming an emperor as in duty bound, or even an archbishop, which was the least he could be; for which reason they ought to consider what was to be done to get him away from there


    30. "That is it," said Dorothea; "he said, moreover, that he would be tall of stature and lank featured; and that on his right side under the left shoulder, or thereabouts, he would have a grey mole with hairs like bristles

    31. "How! not vanquished?" said he of the Grove; "by the heaven that is above us I fought Don Quixote and overcame him and made him yield; and he is a man of tall stature, gaunt features, long, lank limbs, with hair turning grey, an aquiline nose rather hooked, and large black drooping


    32. It was a sight to see the figure Don Quixote made, long, lank, lean, and yellow, his garments clinging tight to him, ungainly, and above all anything but agile


    33. His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow


    34. idiotism, as he stood with his label of manhood, now lank, unstiffened,


    35. They had stood face to face with the Highest, and had seen God in this lank, ungainly, patient man, although they knew it not


    36. The second man was a long, dried-up creature, with lank hair and sallow cheeks


    37. manhood, now lank, unstiffened, becalmed, and flapping against his thighs, down which it reached half way, terrible even in its fall, whilst under the dejection of spirit and flesh, which naturally followed his eyes, by turns, cast down towards his struck standard, or piteously lifted to Louisa, seemed to require at her hands what he had so sensibly parted from to her, and now ruefully missed


    38. His brother dressed with particular care—a thing he never used to do—combed his scanty, lank hair, and, smiling, went upstairs


    39. He got up, long, lank, upright, hard, with his martial moustache and the bony structure of his face, from which the glance of the sunken eyes seemed to transfix the priest, who stood still, an empty wooden snuff-box held upside down in his hand, and glared back, speechless, at the governor of the mine


    40. Streaming from head to foot, with his hair and whiskers hanging lank and dripping and a lustreless stare fixed upon the bottom boards, the Capataz of the Sulaco Cargadores resembled a drowned corpse come up from the bottom to idle away the sunset hour in a small boat

    41. At the chemist’s the lank shopman sealed up a packet of powders for a coachman who stood waiting, and refused him opium with the same callousness with which the doctor’s footman had cleaned his lamp chimneys


    42. Will was just the same, lank and gangling, pink of hair, mild of eye, patient as a draft animal


    43. My hair was lank and hung in unhealthy, misshapen clumps below the line of my collar, which did nothing for my uneven complexion


    44. Gollum's head by his thin lank hair, stretching his long neck, and forcing


    45. “Shoot, Lank, they couldn’t do a damn thing ’round here without us,” he said


    46. They were already wet, lank and miserably laden by muddy hems


    47. The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough, but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns, when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance, when the time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined


    48. The other, whose appearance particularly struck Pierre, was a long, lank, round-shouldered, fair-haired man, slow in his movements and with an idiotic expression of face


    49. Rob saw the spearman’s eyes go wide beneath a lank hank of black hair


    50. His lank brown hair had gotten sparser and greyer, as had his skin













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    Synonyms for "lank"

    lank spindly angular lean gaunt skinny spare gangling

    "lank" definitions

    long and thin and often limp


    long and lean