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His head was bent low and his ..... hands were shaking as he was nervously rubbing them.

The girl was sitting with her back to the window, her head half turned, and the soft light of the setting sun seemed to form a halo above the shining golden hair that spilled over her ..... shoulders.

The young man was very tall, probably six feet eight, very ..... and extraordinarily pale.

He had earnest gray eyes, thick eyebrows and ..... , pale lips.

She liked to wear around her neck a ..... braid of silk with some trinket attached to it.

I can easily stand the cold because I am not as ..... as you are.

Mark was still young – not more than thirty with a tall stature and a ..... figure.

Miss Arrows was a tall blonde ..... and stately.

He had been so attracted by the girl’s ..... waist that he had stopped to talk to her.

Samuel likened Rose to a pale gold flower upon a long ..... stem.

Instead of the usual ..... slice of ham, she gave him a plate of hot meat ragout.

How nice and ..... she looked in her white dress!

Her eyes happened to catch the movement of his ..... hand dropping the petals, one by one.

The central box at the theatre was occupied by a ..... and pompous man, his wife and his daughter.

I remember you very well; you were a ..... light creature in those days.

He was a tall, ..... man encased to the heels in a long black mackintosh.

Sleeping and smiling in his sleep they saw before them a ..... pale little child.

Andrew tried coldly and logically to examine her defects. She was not beautiful, her figure was too small and ..... .

He was famished for a sight of the girl whose ..... hands had gripped his life with a giant grasp.

There was a little rustling sound among the ..... young trees.

It was nice to be ..... – she could not bear to be fat, and yet perhaps her cheeks were too thin.

Jim was a small, ....., wiry man with sunken cheeks weathered to a tan.

She was followed to the car by a ..... shop girl carrying an immense armful of flowers.

Collin looked ..... but healthy after his summer vacation.

A few horses were still alive, but they were so ..... that little meat was likely to be found upon them.

..... liberty is better than a fat slavery. (Proverb.)

A young girl was wrapped in a winter mantle, the folds of which were gathered with some grace round an apparently ..... figure.

..... is the opposite of stout.

Arthur was a ..... little creature, more like an Italian than an English lad.

Maria worked in the cannery the preceding summer, and her ..... pretty hands were all scarred with tomato knives.

He didn’t dare to ask this girl, who stood there a ..... , straight, little figure.

Ruth never read hunger in Martin’s face, which had grown ..... and enlarged the slight hollows in his cheeks.

Joe had been starving for a couple of weeks and looked ..... and worn.

He was a tall ..... man of about seventy with thin arms and legs.

She gave me a ..... sheet of paper and asked me to write down my address.

Wanda’s nose was long and ..... ; it slightly resembled the beak of a bird.

I think the ice on the pond is too ..... for the children to skate on.

His ..... appearance was intensified by his unusually thin figure.

..... means to make no longer open.

..... is to fasten or become fastened with a lock.

..... means to move something in order to close an opening.

Alan got angry and leaving the room ..... the door with a bang.

Sue left the room, quietly ..... the door behind her.

Tim came up to the window and ..... it to keep out the cold.

Children! Will you please ..... your exercise books and look at me?

They have ..... up the art gallery and the museum.

In despair Miranda ..... her face with her hands.

..... the door on the outside, David turned to a flight of wooden steps.

At night all the doors and windows of the house were ..... firmly and securely.

John broke off with all his friends and .....himself up like a hermit.