Purdy is in his mid 70s now, an impeccably polite, nearly dressed man, thin as a rake, with big startled eyes. |
But there was that guy who was thin as a rake and eat several Big Macs a day. |
Now when I say model, I'm not talking of some long-legged, thin as a rake super-model who looks like she hasn't had a good meal in years, and would fall over if you as much as blew in her ear. |
Marc dressed in black, looking thin as a rake and white as a sheet. |
He was as thin as a rake, and was taller than most men at that age. |
For this man, thin as a rake, was hefting quantities of cardboard boxes up and down the stairs. |