Ingram was now forty three or four, and leaner than ever.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
The years had drawn him leaner and battered him, and his insignia proclaimed him a major, but his beard and uniform had not Russianized him.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
It was far leaner than of old; it was no longer richly tanned; and the mouth called louder than ever for a mustache.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung