All 3 Uses of
gaunt
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.†
Chpt 4
- Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.†
Chpt 4 *
- We were all assembled round him when the door opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone