Skinny Minnies

Usage examples of beanpoles.

And the helmet slips forward, is pushed back over the neck, and slips again, while Amsel fishes fence laths and beanpoles, and also heavy, sodden rags out of the mud: the cat comes loose, spins downward, falls to the gulls.

Up the side of the dike Amsel pulls a bundle of roof laths, beanpoles, and wrung-out rags.

Once inside the coat, he conjured up towering beanpoles and windmills, he was Balderle and Ashmodai, the cross by the wayside, and the evil number efta.

And uppermost on the pyre, whence moths were still escaping, stood, supported by beanpoles, the public scandal, the bugaboo, Baal tarred and feathered, the Great Cuckoo Bird.

The servant also carried his master's materials: beanpoles and wet rags and whatever the Vistula had washed ashore.

He was seven feet if he was an inch, and skinny as the beanpoles she'd seen in Greenpeace Park.