A series of beautifully made dances ensues, taut and spare of line and coolly considered in their geometry.
Dyott posted an advertisement in a London newspaper seeking a volunteer who resembled himself: "small, spare, of wiry build," with "habits of discipline".
The credit crisis meant the PM had only an hour to spare, of which 40 minutes were to be an interview with me.
Of medium height, spare of figure, with an aquiline nose, ruddy complexion, and aristocratic hands, Paul III was portrayed by Titian in 1543 at age 75 in the full vigour of his pontificate.
More laid-back are the Devendorfs; each can half-disappear behind his large eyeglasses even though one is strikingly lean and lanky (Bryan), while the other is strikingly spare of pate (Scott).
But for a spare of damaging draws in mid-season, Liverpool would not be left hoping for a minor miracle to win the title and could have gone in to Sunday's match against West Bromwich Albion on top.
By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, September 18 , 1937P. 94 Biographical sketch of Pradere Castex, the spare of the Argentine polo team, who is given to eating glass, paper, cut flowers, and lighted cigarettes.
In a nation as spare of heroes as it is of food, he is one of history's more ironic celebrities, a man who died just a few moments before his time had come.
