"With the forests of skinny white birch trees, it almost has a fairytale-like feel".
Even the hapless Sergeant Bunting can't resist a skinny-dip in a mysterious forest pond: "He passed through a cloud of midges, he smelt the rare leafy tang of the woodland water.
Instead, here's a skinny Indian granny who goes through the forest to visit her granddaughter and then returns.
By contrast, the material for a cordwood house (or a chicken coop, for that matter), could come from skinny, second-growth lumber, even fire-charred forests.
The couple stood at the foot of a hillside covered with aspens, those tall, skinny, pale and eye-catching supermodels of the forest.
With wide, unblinking eyes and long, skinny limbs, these peculiar squirrel-sized primates live on trees in the forests of southern India and Sri Lanka.
Fringed by dense forest, during the dry season it contracts to the shape of a skinny, blue violin that has been laid down on a green cloth, with its neck, the Tonle Sap River, pointing southeast toward Phnom Penh.
Halvard Solness, the driven title character in Ibsen's 1892 drama, "The Master Builder," might well approve of the forests of glittering towers sprouting all over Manhattan these days, those skinny glass boxes housing luxury condos by the hundreds.
Much of the south of this long, skinny country is jagged coastline, uninhabited islands, roads that come to dead ends, and impenetrable forests and ice fields.
"I got skinny, skinny, skinny," he says.
