Nasmyth was a tall man, apparently under thirty, and Leanly muscular, as were his companions, for those who swing the axe from dawn to dusk in that wilderness seldom put on flesh.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
This was partly because my purse was but Leanly provided, and partly because I had ever in mind with regard to such creatures the wise saying of the Athenian concerning the girl Lais, that it was not worth while to spend a fortune to gain a regret.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
It wriggles up and along a ridge, with the glaucous spathes of grass trees standing like spears on each hand, and where wattle and tough she-oaks grow Leanly out of hard soil, thickly strewn with buckshot gravel, rust-coloured.
"Tropic Days"
E. J. Banfield