The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
Had she not been so perfectly proportioned her size would have been a defect; but now it was simple that her delicacy of colour and feature demanded that slightness and slenderness of build.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
If she entered into political matters, as she had not done in earlier years, yet her efforts were intermittent, and two independent witnesses attest with regret the indifference of her attempts to win over the Ministers of State, and the slightness of the part which she played in public life.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes