slenderly

Medium in size, overall length (fastigium to tip of abdomen) 20 to 24 mm; sexually dimorphic, males are 0.78 (P) to 0.84 (L) times as large as females (see Table 1), and more slenderly built.

This becomes especially significant with today's news from the Chamber that its members have voted slenderly in favour of the NEC's bid to attract a super-casino.

brings out mostly only a slenderly silken whispering green

"'Tis the infirmity of his age," Regan tells Gonoril of her father's poor judgment before adding, "Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself" (1.1.293).

(4) "Most theory these days in literature departments," he writes, "is hyper-deductive, top-down and as slenderly cast as a Toledo rapier." He continues to discuss the role of gurus in English departments and the arcane skill of "measuring the Mandarin's fingernails" (334-5 n.

While he can be forgiven for not being interested in "theory," Harrisson's sympathies were patchy and did not extend beyond his "pet tribe." He had no interest in life in general, nor did he draw any lessons, however slenderly philosophical, from what he saw around him.

Style head broad, often with flat or concave apex (rarely conical to slenderly conical), sessile on top of ovaries to tapering gradually with narrow neck into them, with 5 stigmatic zones located on sides of lower cylindrical part behind guide rails, secreting translator just above each guide rail; translator consisting of hard, cliplike, brown to black corpuscle, mostly with flanks and floor, with two flexible, translucent caudicles (rarely absent in some Marsdenieae), each of which attaches one pollinium to corpuscle; ovary apocarpous, mostl y superior.

In his Foreword, Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's only grandson, enthusiastically scribes his approbatory endorsement of this massive, totally swamping successor to Stuart Mason's more slenderly fact-decorated magnum opus, describing his contributed pages as 'an expression of delight that a scholar of Karl Beckson's stature should share a lifetime's study of Wilde and his circle and in a form which will make it the most useful reference work to appear on Wilde since Christopher Millard's Bibliography over eighty years ago.'

Strains of Mahler permeated the air, the childish, yet slenderly thin fingers waved in time to the music with awkward elegance.

Lear is an old man without the wisdom of age, one who "hath ever but slenderly known himself." (I.i.296)(11) As he arranges to give his last daughter to another man in marriage, he prepares an elaborate ceremony to announce his own retirement.

The experience of that and the following year left deep scars on his mind and must have further weakened a not very robust constitution (according to all accounts he was tall and slenderly built).

Coleridge's prose writings are also slenderly represented here.

The disaster was seen as conclusive proof of the unstable theological foundations of Roman Catholicism itself.(9) Thomas Goad, chaplian to the archbishop of Canterbury, observed that "a topicall inference" might be drawn "from the fall of both the floares, namely, of the preaching, and the Massing roome, that both their Doctrine and Sacrifice are weakely and slenderly supported, and that God was displeased as well with their Pulpits, as Altars".