All 7 Uses of
gaunt
in
As I Lay Dying
- Her head lies gaunt on the pillow, looking at the boy.†
Chpt 11
- He looks up at the gaunt face framed by the window in the twilight.†
Chpt 12
- Pa watches him, blinking, his. face streaming; again he looks up at the sky with that expression of dumb and brooding outrage and yet of vindication, as though he had expected no less; now and then he stirs, moves, gaunt and streaming, picking up a board or a tool and then laying it down.†
Chpt 17
- I was just sorry for them bone-gaunted mules.†
Chpt 29
- After that I thought it was right comical: he acting so bewildered and willing and dead for sleep and gaunt as a bean-pole, and thinking he was so smart with it.†
Chpt 32
- He was a kind of tall, gaunted man sitting on the wagon, saying it. was a public street and he reckoned he had as much right there as anybody, and the marshal telling him he would have to move on; folks couldn't stand it.†
Chpt 45
- He too has lost flesh; like ours, his face has an expression strained, dreamy and gaunt.
Chpt 52 *gaunt = thin and bony
Definition:
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(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone