wiry

Every now and then the hard, wiry line slipped off the nippers and sawed across his smarting fingers or palms.

Besides he had had some chocolate; he was thin and wiry, and a monk, and mental anxieties were unknown to him.

If you had been a puny, wiry, yellow baby, I wouldn't have stood godmother to you.

She put the baby into his wiry old arms—a very right move of hers.

Mrs Marks herself did not age; she was one of those hard, wiry women that are capable of looking forty for twenty years.

The wiry hairs of the Chief Medical Officer's red moustache bristled like a cat's.

The angler, a tall thin man of sixty, with a keen grave face and wiry gray hair, regarded the Parson steadfastly.

These people usually have square, stocky bodies, strong and wiry, and are tenacious of life.

He was a small, bearded, wiry man of forty-four or five, who gave you a curious impression of ferocity and mildness mingled.

For the farmer reached out a ham-like hand and seized the wiry Lycurgus by the shoulder, and shook him.