| 1 | He is thin, pale. | |
| 2 | The Witch stroked his hair with her thin white hand. | |
| 3 | His mother, Angela, was an angular beauty who doted on him, and the medium of her love was food. | |
| 4 | It was spindly looking with a tall skinny stalk and only one head on it. | |
| 5 | She was a thin Swahili woman with a serious face, a widow. |