All 3 Uses of
gaunt
in
Arrowsmith
- Against a brown plaster wall was a cabinet of zoological collections and medical curiosities, and beside it the most dreadful and fascinating object known to the boy-world of Elk Mills—a skeleton with one gaunt gold tooth.†
Chpt 1
- His swart cheeks were gaunt, his nose high-bridged and thin.†
Chpt 2 *
- This is real sure-enough life," he exulted, and he did not permit himself to see the vision of Max Gottlieb waiting there, so gaunt, so tired, so patient.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone