Word: thinned
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There are professors and professors. Some are young, some old, some tall, and some thin. Then, too, there are some who stand midway between these extremes. But of all, the young professor is the most worthy of study. He is not so learned, perhaps, as his elder fellow-workers, but he generally appears more so. Indeed, in his own estimation there never was any one quite so erudite as himself. He can correct Homer's Greek, or pick a flaw in Newton's mathematics. He is, in his small way, a living dictionary, and as versatile as a trained poodle...
That violin so small and thin...
...twenty," said Chaucer, shoving his chips out. The chips were made of slabs of doughnut from the kitchen, cut thin, and beautifully polished to look like ivory. Epaminondas went him twenty better, and they continued to pile up chips in a dreadfully reckless manner, until there were doughnuts enough on the table to have killed all the ostriches between Cairo and Capetown...
...apparition of this beautiful girl set the last charm upon the loveliness of the spot. The utter solitude of the forest around; the white water of the river, that mirrored the hemlocks hanging in rich tracery over its edge; the densely wooded mountains behind, that rose blue in the thin autumnal haze, - all were consecrated by her presence. She was a perfect Diana, save that she would not have kissed Endymion; but if she had Endymion could never have resisted...
...that would be too thin...