lathy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of lathy
Example Sentences
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The shapelessness of the lathy form, the shock of coarse black hair surmounting the large head, the retreating forehead—these were not apparent where we stood.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)
The glare thrown upon his sunk features and thin lathy frame gave an unearthy horror to his whole aspect.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
They are all tall, thin, lathy fellows, in long greatcoats, with huge moustaches and long-handled halberds; their faces as long, solemn, and grave as if the weight of the empire rested on their shoulders.
From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by Landells, R. T.
He was fraternizing effusively with the captain of the Lushkar team, who was wondering how many of Dirkovitch's Cossacks his own long, lathy down-countrymen could account for in a fair charge.
From Short-Stories by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
Some of them, doubtless, are fine, good-looking, well-conditioned animals; but the majority are lean, lathy, sunken-eyed, woe-begone, iron-marked, desperately-abused brutes, lacking all the lively energy that characterizes the movements of the up-to-the-mark hunter.
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith
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