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They have a short, choppy stride, far different to the gangling gait of the American soldier.
OUR ARMY AT THE FRONTHEYWOOD BROUN
He blinked at the tall, gangling Kevenoe, who was still out of breath from running.
THE DESTROYERSGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
Besides, the gangling one put forward an unmistakably pregnant fact.
THE HEART OF CANYON PASSTHOMAS K. HOLMES
One day a young swamper, a gangling lad of twenty, raging and weeping, threw himself upon Reivers like a cat upon a bear.
THE SNOW-BURNERHENRY OYEN
The horse wheeled, stepping as clumsily as a gangling yearling.
THE GARDEN OF EDENMAX BRAND
Long, lean and hollow cheeked, the term "gangling" fits him better than any other.
THE BOY AVIATORS IN AFRICAWILBUR LAWTON
The gangling doctor took two turns of the office with enormous strides; one hand tugged at his straggling goatee.
DUST OF THE DESERTROBERT WELLES RITCHIE
The two gangling boys, jabbering at each other, raced back once more.
THE FORGOTTEN PLANETMURRAY LEINSTER
The gangling Texan was testing his rudder controls and flipping his ailerons with jerky movements of evident impatience.
ACES UPCOVINGTON CLARKE
Four years there did the work for the gangling, silent mountaineer.
THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMMIRVIN S. COBB
WORDS RELATED TO GANGLING
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn
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