This bluntness of line, however, was balanced by a great delicacy of tint--the pink and white complexion of a girl, indeed--enhanced by the bright reddish hair, and quick gray eyes.
The figure was also a little out of drawing, so to speak; it was tall and loosely-jointed.

The general impression was one of agility and power.

But if you looked closer you saw that the shoulders were narrow, the arms inordinately long, and the extremities too small for the general height.

Robert Elsmere's hand was the hand of a woman, and few people ever exchanged a first greeting with its very tall owner without a little shock of surprise.
Mr.Thornburgh and his guest had visited a few houses in the course of their walk, and the vicar plunged for a minute or two into some conversation about local matters with his wife.

But Mrs.Thornburgh, it was soon evident; was giving him but a scatterbrained attention.