The cake is apportioned to the condition of the different animals, and some of the leanest cattle get the double of others which are riper.
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie
Get the very best you can buy, and the leanest.
"Camp and Trail"
Stewart Edward White
This was, of course, one of the leanest of the lean years that the fishermen encountered; but with all the encouragement in the way of bounties and protected markets that Congress could give them, they never were able to earn in a life, as much as a successful promoter of trusts nowadays will make in half an hour.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot