"Shapely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a few green flowers. The leaves of the alder came forth in such a crinkly and unfinished state that they looked quite malformed, but the slender leave: of the willow slipped out of their buds smooth and shapely from ...
— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof
... "a daughter of the gods, divinely tall, and most divinely fair." Then, of course, there is the "classic profile," the "deep, unfathomable eyes," the "lily-white skin," and "hair like the raven's wing," not to mention the "swan-like neck" and "tapering, shapely fingers." ...
— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed
... waved a shapely hand toward the opposite embankment, where the tracklayers were idling in silent groups waiting for some one in authority to tell ...
— A Fool For Love • Francis Lynde
... generously; "nor is a locked door any obstacle to your discovering eye. Let this arisement be submitted to a facile test. Dependent from my ill-formed ears are rings of priceless jade that have ever tinged your thoughts, while about your shapely neck is a crystal charm, to which an unclouded background would doubtless give some lustre. I will set aside the rings and thou shalt set aside the charm. Then, at a chosen time, this vaunted one shall attend before us ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah
... down and was distractedly stretching out her shapely arms covered with bangles which clashed with a ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc
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