leanness

He was well built, with the hard leanness of the athlete.

There had been strength in his leanness once, but now it looked washed out of him.

He was tall, strongly built in spite of his leanness.

Gone was the painful leanness; he had been through several molts.

His present garb gave an effect of leanness and agility.

It has a touch of leanness that too many California chardonnays lack.

I put my head on the leanness of his belly, and my arms about him.

Not tall, but above average for a woman, slender almost to leanness, and straight as a lance.

Tough guys, with that leanness you see in officers from the par as They weren't big.

His leanness and pallor made him seem even taller.

Hard to be sure owing to his bony leanness.

The years, or perhaps the recent stresses, had pared him to wiry leanness.

With endurance comes leanness and some of the bulk goes out of the game.

What you need to shoot for is (muscular) leanness, not slimness.

This suggests that for Wood leanness may be all, even as his own metaphor waxes.

Already, too, there was an added leanness about Rubenstein's face.

His belly, a bit paunchy - unlike Bennett's brown leanness.

This, combined with a new interest in these cuts' natural leanness, has increased the price of the flank steak.

Still, one of its greatest strengths is its leanness.

Most people compensate for that leanness by adding butter and maple syrup at the table.

Not the leanness of starvation, though, just that of men who had never carried much fat on them.

The years had thinned him down to almost skeletal leanness, and whitened his hair.

Its virtue of leanness is also a liability.

But the increases may be attributed to the hormone- and antibiotic-free claims rather than the leanness.

Yet it moved alertly with no sign of weakness, so that the excessive leanness must have been its natural state.