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The gravity of his dress, together with a certain lankness of cheek and stiffness of deportment, added nearly ten years to his age, but his figure was that of one not yet past thirty.

From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles

By degrees, the color came back to his face, his lean figure lost something of its lankness, his tread grew firmer and more alert.

From On the Firing Line by Fuller, Hamilton Brock

Immense of size but with the graceful lankness of the tigers of to-day, Sabre-Tooth somewhat resembled them, though, beside him, the largest inmate of the Indian jungle would appear but puny.

From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Waterloo, Stanley

Mr. Prohack self-consciously carried his lankness and his big head across to Lady Massulam's table.

From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold

The lankiness of limb, and the lankness of feature and hair, sufficiently pleasing in poor Ted, stretched forth at his long length yonder, were not such agreeable characteristics in the mother.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.