| 1. | How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Are lank and lean with thy extortions. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | About her lank and all o'erteemed loins. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | About her lank and all o'erteemed loins. - from Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Out of the hood hung lank shreds of brown, at which the hungry birds pecked and tore. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 6. | A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 7. | 'Wot department has he got, Fagin' inquired Master Bates, surveying Noah's lank form with much disgust. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | I saw the man on the stretcher sit up, lank and with an uplifted arm, above the shoulders of the bearers. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 9. | I at once pictured to myself a creature with spectacles and lank hair, horribly freckled, and tramping about on huge feet. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |