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She was a small, almost hipless girl of twenty-five, with styleless, colorless, brittle hair pushed back behind her ears, which were very large.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

The chief was a short man, who vainly believed that he could sustain his trousers in dignified position about his hipless body with a belt.

From Claim Number One by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

Fatherless and deserted, sick and emaciated—eight years have I passed in this wretched place, hopeless, hapless, hipless.

From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett