He was tall, but his spareness suggested fragility, and his face, which emphasized this impression, had a hint of querulous discontent in it.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
And I to be as that I drew my breath anigh to tears, and did be there with Naani amid the quiet spareness of the trees and the rock of that part of the land; but yet did be to see half dimly that I stood within a light, even as the light that doth be the wonder of olden sunsets; and I to be, in the same time, both that man and this man that now doth write; and to have beside my spirit but one maid, that I did lack to know whether I say to her Naani or Mirdath; for though the two that have been Mine Own did be different-seeming to the eye, there to be but the spirit of one maid beside me in that moment.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
They are thin, eager, sinewy in ap' pearance,-though it is the spareness of the Turk, not of the American.
"Castilian Days"
John Hay