She could look out tabbily from above a lap of handiwork, but in her boudoir wrapper of gray flannelette scalloped in black she was scrawny, almost rangy, like a horse whose ribs show.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
But she remembered him well-a big, rangy boy, handsome and wild, who had made her childhood almost unendurable.
"The Mysterious Rider"
Zane Grey
Of course Mrs. Odell-Carney was dressed as all rangy, long-limbed Englishwomen are prone to dress,-after a model peculiarly not her own.
"The Husbands of Edith"
George Barr McCutcheon