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Перевод: lanky
[прилагательное] долговязый
Тезаурус:
- That big laugh The lanky
- Clover Roope, who later became a dancer, remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John's stepsisters, and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with "a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long, lanky figure, who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer, but gave the sense already that here was somebody important."
- He was no longer aware of the other people present, only of the lanky figure in the front row.
- A lanky cleric oozing good intentions and bad faith then launched into an address that was squirmingly anxious to avoid giving offence to persons of any or no belief while still suggesting that, who knows, there might after all be, you know, something out there.
- Growers are also presenting new races of the pointed lily-flowered and fringed parrot tulips reduced from their lanky stature to good border plants.
- The lanky Ormondroyd was proving to be a nuisance and when he chested the ball down to Thompson he was unlucky to see his shot flash wide.
- In the centre of the group was a lanky young paratrooper with a face like Huckleberry Finn's.
- He found the back door of the church already open and Mister Tom talking to a tall, lanky man with piebald black and grey hair.
- The lowest point - and there were many vying for the honour - came when Richard Langhorn, Quins' lanky No. 8, went off, head bloodied, after just 14 minutes, the victim of - at best - a misguided boot.
- But somehow, he thought, the lanky, lively lad and the small, dull-looking lass fitted together in friendship.
- Eventually her grandmother came to rouse her, infuriated as always to see the lanky child leaning against the cornerpost of the verandah, craning her long neck to look between the palms at nothing.
- A moment or two later a man who, from his lanky form and fine-boned features, could only be her fianc, Lord Woodleigh, emerged, evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance.
- The tall lanky figure of Billy Tolboys was slouched in the comer seat by the fire.
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