I remember one old servant whom we boys called Daddy Billy, who was really one of the family-quite like your-and I nodded toward the Terrapin, who at the moment was pouring a thin stream of brown sherry into an equally attenuated glass for the special comfort and sustenance of the last arrival.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
The composer saw all this; but he was sensibly selfish, and buttoning the long frock-coat which hung loosely on his attenuated frame shook hands with his disciples, called a carriage and drove away.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
But this is far from showing that the nebula itself is correspondingly attenuated, for we must not assume that this shining gas is all that exists in the nebula; so far as telescope or camera are concerned, there may be associated with it any amount of dark matter which can not be seen because it sends to us no light.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock