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Meanings of slight woman in English

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Usage of slight woman in English
1
The slight woman dribbled sniggering, as poorly suppressed as the earlier smirk.
Woken furies
2
A slight woman, Indian by the look of her, came into the room.
All the pretty dead girls
3
But we can say, she's a slight woman in her mid-fifties.
Radio NZ
4
A slight woman in a black suit, her hair white, followed.
Carte Blanche
5
Presently appeared a short, slight woman of middle age, plainly dressed in serviceable grey.
New Grub Street
6
She was a small, slight woman, black of hair and with eyes the same colour.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
7
She's a very slight woman, it's amazing she was able to hold him up like that.
Heartbeat
8
She was a slight woman and very graceful.
Whosoever Shall Offend
9
Micky, meet Jadwiga. The slight woman winced at the full name, mouthed the single syllable Jad.
Woken furies
10
She was a slight woman, shorter than Maria.
The eyes of a king
11
She was a small, slight woman, with fair pale features and a mass of soft yellow hair.
Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
12
She was a slight woman, at least Beresford's age, with an intuitive grasp of electronic circuitry but no pretensions.
More Than Honor
13
She was a small, slight woman whose naturally quaint appearance was accentuated by the extreme simplicity of her attire.
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
14
She was a small, slight woman, though the furs she was wearing served to conceal the slenderness of her figure.
The Lamp of Fate
15
The slight woman shrugged.
Woken furies
16
Below in the garden in the moonlight, which was almost as light as day, she saw standing a slight woman's figure.
Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V
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