There seemed no bony structure; the mind, undefended, was growing and pushing the confining walls further out.
And the fragility which the head suggested the body confirmed, for he was not framed to labor.

The burden of the noble head had bowed the slender throat and crooked the shoulders, and when he moved his arm it seemed the arm of a skeleton too loosely clad.

There was a differing connotation in the hands, to be sure.

They were thin--bones and sinews chiefly, with the violet of the veins showing along the backs; but they were active hands without tremor--hands ideal for the accurate scalpel, where a fractional error means death to the helpless.
After a moment of staring through the window the scholar wrote again: "The major portion of Elkhead lies within plain sight of my window.

I see a general merchandise store, twenty-seven buildings of a comparatively major and eleven of a minor significance, and five saloons.