Sentence examples for slender child from inspiring English sources

Da Cámara found in front of him a slender child with blonde page-boy hair and blue eyes, dressed in overalls, which she wore as nonchalantly as if she had no other clothes.

Atop a horse, seemingly glued to the saddle, the slender child seemed to blossom, his back straighter, his eyes brighter, as if on top not of a horse, but of the world.

If, as seems likely, Mr. Mohammad cannot repay his debt to a fellow camp resident a year from now, his daughter Naghma, a smiling, slender child with a tiny gold stud in her nose, will be forced to leave her family's home forever to be married to the lender's 17-year-old son.

Here is a slender child in a turquoise shalwar with a red scarf on her head, carrying her little brother.

There are slender children's books and thicker collections of Reader's Digest condensed works.

The Hobbit – that lovely, slender children's book by JRR Tolkien – is being cranked out into a movie trilogy, while The Hunger Games, conceived as a trilogy, gets beefed up into a quartet.

Once upon a time (in 1957, to be exact) there appeared a slender children's book of line drawings and clever verses that playfully fused the enchanted tone of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (better known as "The Night Before Christmas") with the message of Dickens's "Christmas Carol".

After years in the news, the project and its improbability — a live-action movie based on a slender, illustrated children's book that runs fewer than 40 pages, some without any words at all — are no longer a surprise.

Most likely a native Wolof speaker from the Senegambian coast, she was "a slender, frail, female child," naked except for a kilt made from "a quantity of dirty carpet," as a descendant of her owners wrote in 1834.

A team of paranormal inquirers comes to the orphanage, led by a figure clad in black, as slender as a child's stick drawing, and as recognizable, even from behind, as anyone in cinema.

Nut brown and slender, the Paskowitz children were beautiful, ideal subjects for an exhilarating, persuasively liberating experiment.