1 She was there, then, close to him, only a thin board between.
2 The blood rushed to his thin skin under the sting of Hale's astonishment.
3 As he drew near the farm he saw, through the thin screen of larches at the gate, a light twinkling in the house above him.
4 Sometimes their way led them under the shade of an overhanging bank or through the thin obscurity of a clump of leafless trees.
5 The tall woman, who had moved away from us toward the dresser, took no notice; but the other, from her cushioned niche, answered complainingly, in a high thin voice.
6 A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb.
7 She sat opposite the window, and the pale light reflected from the banks of snow made her face look more than usually drawn and bloodless, sharpened the three parallel creases between ear and cheek, and drew querulous lines from her thin nose to the corners of her mouth.
8 Instead of her usual calico wrapper and knitted shawl she wore her best dress of brown merino, and above her thin strands of hair, which still preserved the tight undulations of the crimping-pins, rose a hard perpendicular bonnet, as to which Ethan's clearest notion was that he had to pay five dollars for it at the Bettsbridge Emporium.