proportioned

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Proportioned and exquisitely shaped, he looks like a living arrow, formed to shoot through the water.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

Certes it was not body; he was well Proportioned, as a poplar or a pole, A handsome man, that human miracle; And in each circumstance of Love or War Had still preserved his perpendicular.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Proportioned somewhat like a clothes-pin, he could not stand much lengthening of limb.

From A House Party with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

Proportioned to its nature, and the degree of rectitude found in it, it will deduct from the punishment which the want of it would have occasioned.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided,�a care pretermitted in no single case.

From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo