He was a product of your own clean, sweet imagination, but let me tell you-" she made a swift feminine turn to the trivial, "You'll marry a tall, Lathy man, or a short, dumpy man.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
"If they're upon the Pecan," puts in a third speaker, a tall, Lathy individual, in a green blanket coat, badly faded, "and anywhere near its mouth, we can't be more than five miles from them.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
I think I see him now before me with his thin, erect, Lathy figure, his snub nose, and puckered-up face, wriggling and twisting himself about, in his desire to please his customers.
"Roughing it in the Bush"
Susanna Moodie