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• He was as thin as a rail,
• The actor is thin as a rail, sharp as a tack and dressed casually in jeans and a colorful sweater.
• He's 76 years old, thin as a rail and a little weathered himself, with a bad hip and a bad knee.
• Stan, who's as thin as a rail, is usually passive, but this is one of those times when he can be stubborn.
• "You don't have to be 25 and thin as a rail, " said Claire Mayer, a retired computer-chip marketer.
• His feet were, as I recall, bigger than those of the leaping writer-editor, but he was thin as a rail and his complexion pale, almost translucent.
• On the contrary, after seeing one of her best friends suffer from bulimia, she says she won't succumb to society's expectations that women _ especially athletes _ must be thin as a rail.
• Ms . Raphael recalled : " On the second floor sat Mrs . Loehmann in a Louis XIV-type chair, thin as a rail, dressed all in black, with heavy black stockings like a European widow.
• Brownie, who at 83 is as thin as a rail, moves like a man half his age and rides his bicycle into town every day, shrugs and says with a sly grin, " Clean living, I guess ."
• They have long toes for trotting over slippery mudflats and squeezed bodies for skulking through dense vegetation . ( The saying that someone is as " thin as a rail " alludes to the bird, not a fence rail . ) The California clapper rail, one of about two dozen clapper rail subspecies scattered along the coasts of the Americas, is one of the world's largest rails.
• As one author described him, Sherman was " thin as a rail, over six feet high, with close cropped beard and possessed of bad teeth and a divine laugh, when he laughs . " His public speeches were adequate and informative, but never " of a sort to arouse a warm feeling for John Sherman, the man . " Unlike Blaine or Conkling, Sherman " communicated no colorful personality, no magnetic current . " His nickname, " the Ohio Icicle, " deserved or not, hindered his presidential ambitions.