Why, Ada, you are skinny as a whippet, girl.
He was a beady-eyed prober, like the foxes he loved or his favourite whippet, Pluto, whose long-legged grace often appeared in his paintings as counterpoint to some fatter, redder human shape.
Upshaw, a fast-talking, shortstatured, dynamic whippet of a man in his late forties, had been selling drugs all his working life.
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