Crossword-Solution: GANGLING 8 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

How did it come that a lanky, gangling kid in her tees had been paid a visit by the son of possibly the most cultured and influential family of the city, people of prestige, comfortable wealth, and unlimited popularity? For four years she had struggled to gain an entrance in some way into Louise Whiting’s intimate circle of friends, and she had ended by shutting the door on the only son of the family.

The youngster was eleven years old; lank and gangling, and blest with a fretful voice and with far less discipline and manners than a three-month collie pup.

And, as ever toward the feeble, his big nature went out in friendly protection to this gangling wisp of impishness.

Polly would be happier and get more from life as the wife of big gangling Henry Peters, than she would as a millionaire's daughter.

From a rather homely, long-legged gangling girl of fourteen she emerged apparently by a series of swift transitions into a young lady at sixteen, giving promise of a beauty which lay, not so much in her physical attractions, which were generous, but in that easily discernible nobility of character which indicates beauty of soul--that superlative beauty which entitles its possessor to be alluded to as “sweet,” rather than pretty or handsome.