Literary notes about rangy (AI summary)
The adjective “rangy” is used to evoke a sense of unrefined, sprawling elegance by highlighting long, lean, and athletic forms. In narratives it may describe the lithe build of animals—as with a roan gelding or a bay horse ([1], [2], [3])—or the extended frame of human figures, suggesting both endurance and rustic charm ([4], [5], [6]). Authors also apply the term to expansive settings and robust livestock, thereby enriching scenes with a vigorous, naturally unpolished quality ([7], [8], [9]).
- It found one shod, a rangy roan gelding.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine - Presently his eye lighted on a tall, rangy bay horse that was being groomed in a wide stall near the door-way.
— from From the Ranks by Charles King - Kells rode a big rangy bay—a horse that appeared to snort speed and endurance.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey - He owned a rangy frame and a loose mouth.
— from Garrison's Finish: A Romance of the Race Course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson - He was a tall, rangy man of about thirty, wearing overalls much the worse for grease and hard usage.
— from Bill Bolton and Hidden DangerBill Bolton Naval Aviation Series #3 by Noel Sainsbury - He was a big, sunburned, rangy young man with close-cropped black hair and gray eyes.
— from Prospector's Special by Robert Sheckley - Between the tropics and Carpentaria a considerable portion is rangy, but is well watered and richly grassed.'
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von - The upland country, vast and rangy, was for Bostil too small to hold Sage King and Wildfire unless they both belonged to him.
— from Wildfire by Zane Grey - THE MARSH And breathe it free, and breathe it free, By rangy marsh, in lone sea-liberty.
— from Roof and Meadow by Dallas Lore Sharp
