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  • Gaunt men with creased cheeks and women with dark red lipstick sat along the bar.†   (source)
  • Exhausted and barely able to eat, Sylvia crept through November, haunted by nightmares and growing ever more gaunt.†   (source)
  • "Without any supper?" said Snape, a triumphant smile flickering across his gaunt face.†   (source)
  • He felt weak and dizzy; chills racked his gaunt frame.†   (source)
  • Her faded hair, knotted in a tight bun on the nape of her gaunt neck, glinted gold-red in the light.†   (source)
  • His face was gaunt, seamed, fanatical.†   (source)
  • She thought about how gaunt he'd looked.†   (source)
  • They'd been thin to start with, and had become gaunt.†   (source)
  • He shoved a cloth sack at gaunt, big-nosed Herbert.†   (source)
  • None of them wore any kind of discernible facial expression—they were all sallow and gaunt, miserably sad to look upon.†   (source)
  • She was always a small woman, but her dialysis was forcing her to lose weight fast, and soon her short, gaunt frame was an almost comical mismatch with her husband's bulk.†   (source)
  • He was tall, gaunt, and painfully shy, and he preferred to stay out of the limelight.†   (source)
  • Those of us who had remained behind were gaunt and pale.†   (source)
  • All she said was, "Night-Gaunt?"†   (source)
  • It wasn't just that he was weak and gaunt; he was changed in a more fundamental way.†   (source)
  • Yet his face—his nose, the sockets for his eyes, his cheekbones, and the contours of his jaw—had the gaunt definition that one sees in the faces of sixteen-year-olds only when they are starving.†   (source)
  • Dreams pursued memories, courted and danced and coupled with them and they became one, and the gaunt, beseeching phantoms that called to him had the rag-wrapped feet of Washington's regulars and the faces of his mother and father and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan and the Beales and Earl Grayson.†   (source)
  • Gaunt and totally bald with a sternly set jaw, he wore a white lab coat and dress shoes propped firmly on the wheelchair's footrest.†   (source)
  • His face gaunt and his teeth maniacal.†   (source)
  • The darkness up here is not as dense, and I can see his gaunt face dusted in concrete, bleeding from fresh scratches.†   (source)
  • The branches of the old trees, which had been familiar to me either half-denuded or completely gaunt during the winter terms at Devon, now seemed about to break from their storms of leaves.†   (source)
  • I thought there was a touch of the stage villain here—the gaunt figure, the black coat, the lurid lips.†   (source)
  • A gaunt, ragged figure stood on the step, and as she shrank back a man pushed his way through the door and halted on the kitchen threshold.†   (source)
  • Her obstetrician, Dr. Ashley, gauntly handsome in a Lord Mountbatten sort of way, with fine sand-colored hair swept back from his temples, arrives to examine her progress.†   (source)
  • He went to see a Mr. Bingham at Lawrence and Company, a "tall, gaunt, white-bearded Yankee with steel-blue eyes."†   (source)
  • Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk.†   (source)
  • And it isn't the house full of the sick and dying, the bleeding backs, the gaunt-faced children, the marching boots, or the omnipresent misery that drives me under the fence.†   (source)
  • Rocking back on her heels, she sucked in a long, uneven breath and gazed at her little sister's gaunt face and lifeless eyes.†   (source)
  • Her beauty had gone to a kind of fragile gauntness.†   (source)
  • He is gaunt, frightened, and sweating in his greatcoat.†   (source)
  • BOOK: I was born in a cage But smashed it with rage The Gaunt inside me Riddled me free Of that which would stop me to be.†   (source)
  • Though the word 'boy' hardly seemed to do this gaunt individual justice.†   (source)
  • Wherever the trains stopped, the migrants went, gaunt and dirty, plagued by parasites they had picked up along the way, to front doors to beg.†   (source)
  • Her still-gaunt face breaks into a wide smile when she sees me.†   (source)
  • The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.†   (source)
  • From there he wasted very quickly to a lethargic little bundle of skin-covered bones and a gaunt, skin-covered skull.†   (source)
  • A gaunt peak poked into the sky.†   (source)
  • Not gaunt like Father Hoyt's, merely carved from cold stone.†   (source)
  • He might have been handsome if not for a certain hungry gauntness and the way the lids of his eyes cloaked the top of each iris.†   (source)
  • Two others were already in the back seat, a soldier and a woman with a gaunt gray face.†   (source)
  • He turned at my knock, and when I saw him I was shocked at his appearance--not so much his watery ruined eye, but his gaunt face.†   (source)
  • Miss Dare looked thinner and older—less like a high school girl and more like a young farmer's wife from ancient times, weathered from hard work and gaunt from shortage of food.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, one of them, an incredibly gaunt man with a long drooping mustache, runs in front of the camera and begins to shout: "a ma la ge zen ba dam gal nun ka aria su su na an da….†   (source)
  • Yetta was noticing the other women in the cell now—scary women with gaunt, blank faces, sores where their mouths should be, ragged clothes that looked to be mostly held together with dirt.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt young man who seemed suspicious of conversation that strayed outside certain unspecified guidelines.†   (source)
  • Capricorn was a tall man, and gaunt, as if the skin had been stretched too tight over his bones.†   (source)
  • Gaunt children, blond with malnutrition, selling smutty magazines and food they couldn't afford to eat themselves.†   (source)
  • Detective Inspector Gaskill's up there, looking pale and gaunt and chastened.†   (source)
  • The haggard, gaunt look was gone, but only a careful blankness took its place.†   (source)
  • After each visit, he returned looking gaunter, his snout often rubbed raw from where he had fretted it against the grating of his cage, and when he got home he would collapse in the corner and sleep heavily for hours. as if he had spent the entire time away pacing his cage with insomnia.†   (source)
  • Working its way along the cracks in his face, it would eventually end as a shine against his cheekbones, which were prominent high points in an otherwise gaunt set of features.†   (source)
  • To Nadia, Saeed was if anything more handsome than he had been before, his hard work and his gauntness suiting him, giving him a contemplative air, making out of his boyishness a man of substance.†   (source)
  • And though she had the same broad face, her heavy cheeks had thinned, leaving her with a gaunt elegance that was astonishing to me.†   (source)
  • His face is gaunt, his voice shaky; his once fancy guayabera is soiled and hangs on him, several sizes too large.†   (source)
  • She was gaunt, sunken, but Dan saw shadows of a pretty woman gone old and frail.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt man, and Blomkvist thought that he looked at that moment like a melancholy scarecrow.†   (source)
  • The gaunt shadows of Band Society music stands and instrument cases stood around like sentinels.†   (source)
  • He looked over sixty, gaunt, wilted as his shirt, underweight, leaning on that cane and favoring his right leg.†   (source)
  • Down by the depot, the postmistress, a gaunt woman who wears a rawhide jacket and denims and cowboy boots, presides over a falling-apart post office.†   (source)
  • His people were in a desperate state, their eyes and cheeks sunk low in gaunt faces and their tattered clothing barely able to keep out the freezing cold.†   (source)
  • From these gaunt windows they could rifle-fire their gaze artillery distances past library, city hall, depot, cow barns, farmlands to empty prairie!†   (source)
  • On a high podium in front stood the conductor, a tall, gaunt man with dark deep-set eyes and a thin mouth placed carelessly between his long pointed nose and his long pointed chin.†   (source)
  • He's a tall man, gaunt, with deeply creased cheeks.†   (source)
  • The first time he'd seen her, she was pale and gaunt, almost desperately thin.†   (source)
  • A man, gaunt, bent like a comma, stood next to her, holding a hat to his chest.†   (source)
  • Holly, gaunt, his staring pelt full of goose grass and fragments of burdock, was talking with the three hutch rabbits and reassuring them as best he could.†   (source)
  • A pack of gaunt hounds quarrelled under the floor, and the sick woman stirred uneasily on her bed and expressed a wish that her emissaries would return.†   (source)
  • Before she'd looked lithe, elegant; now, she was gaunt, and her head seemed too big for her body, weighing down her neck.†   (source)
  • Gaunt, Abraham Lincoln but without the height or the beard.†   (source)
  • Its black, bleak desolation, its skeleton streets, its shapeless masses of brick and mortar, its gaunt and jagged spires, only remnants of walls but yesterday so proud and stately, stared at me from every point.†   (source)
  • He was standing in knee-high water, between a gaunt horse and a little brown pack mule, both of which had sunk past their hocks in the river mud.†   (source)
  • Neth had definitely been sickly and gaunt, but perhaps that had been from tuberculosis, parasites, or exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Many of the men were lean, almost gaunt.†   (source)
  • He was still all those things, but now his pale cheeks were gaunt and his body was hunched, as if it had curled in on itself.†   (source)
  • Except for Stephen on his crutches, we all carry bags, furoshiki, suitcases, boxes and follow Ojisan down the middle of the road, past the gaunt hotels swarming with people, like ants in an overturned anthill.†   (source)
  • He was thin, gaunt, totally unremarkable in every way but one.†   (source)
  • If so, why do I feel such pity for her, for her gaunt face?†   (source)
  • Major Major's father was a towering, gaunt man in heavy shoes and a black woolen suit.†   (source)
  • She's gaunt, wrung out from crying.†   (source)
  • It didn't register till we were in his embrace that his head had been shaved or that his face had become gaunt.†   (source)
  • Simon had never seen his face before, and he hadn't realized how gaunt Samuel was, or how old he looked.†   (source)
  • He sat there now, wearing his small, black skullcap and pecking at the typewriter with his index fingers, a thin, frail man in his fifties, with gray hair, gaunt cheeks, and spectacles.†   (source)
  • On October 14, the gaunt, odd-looking figure of General Charles Lee reappeared, dogs and all, and immediately resumed his place as second-in-command.†   (source)
  • There was little that was distinguished about this short, gaunt, elderly visitor; instead, he conveyed the look of defeat.†   (source)
  • I found her last winter, wandering gaunt in the middle of the road, her hide draped loose upon her bony nethers.†   (source)
  • A gaunt mulatta tells Ivanito he smells of death.†   (source)
  • They would see a deeply troubled man who had lost his way after losing his family, who held no job, who lived in one room above a garage, who was gaunt from weight loss, whose eyes were haunted, who kept twenty thousand dollars in cash in the spare-tire well in the trunk of his car.†   (source)
  • By the time the cabin had filled with a dim yellow light, Max looked upon an older, gaunt man with small black eyes and wearing a loose, dirty overcoat.†   (source)
  • Potatoes had made him gaunt.†   (source)
  • His body seemed designed as an exercise in consistency of style, a style made of gauntness, of tight flesh, long legs and swift movements.†   (source)
  • Thin as a rake, her eyes are large and yellow, her cheeks gaunt, the skin stretched tight to her skull.†   (source)
  • Age was overtaking his gaunt-ness; and now when the winter wind bit through the cracks of his cabin, the old hurts came to life.†   (source)
  • It is haunting to look at the photos of these black people, their work-worn bodies in shabby clothing, yet their faces to us expressing a dignity that seems to be absent from the faces of some of the gaunt, half-starved white migrants in the famous photographs of the dust-bowl victims of the same Depression years.†   (source)
  • The woods fell away and they came to scattered groups of birch, and then to bare slopes where only a few gaunt pine-trees grew.†   (source)
  • Mother Elena's face is gaunt.†   (source)
  • Forty-two years old, a little over five and a half feet tall, and gaunt with dark, thinning hair and small round spectacles that almost never left his face, he was distinguished in a schoolmaster sort of way.†   (source)
  • She looked skinny to me, even gaunt, but I probably thought that because of her hair.†   (source)
  • He had not yet seen her smile soften the Northern gauntness and rage into heart-stopping feminine beauty.†   (source)
  • This gaunt, thin figure that sits across from him, hair chopped bluntly at the neck, still grins; still kids, but the eyes are different.†   (source)
  • In coloring he was pure Whitshank, black-haired even in his sixties with very white skin and squinty blue eyes, and he had the rangy, gaunt Whitshank body.†   (source)
  • Then, shocked by the sunken eyes and gaunt Confederate faces, some of the bluecoats open their rucksacks and share their food.†   (source)
  • Dorim Lugar, a gaunt, dark-complected man whose eyes never seemed to stop darting about nervously, nearly leaped out of his chair when he was introduced.†   (source)
  • The frail young man was a gaunt man with white hair.†   (source)
  • Stu produced a gaunt Hindu in a dhoti; in thirty minutes he was a twin of Prof, and lifted Prof off wagon onto a divan.†   (source)
  • There was also a large portrait of a young man with prematurely gray temples and a gaunt, weary face haunted by the shadow of death.†   (source)
  • Wherever he looked, Tayo could see the consequences of his praying; the gray mule grew gaunt, and the goat and kid had to wander farther and farther each day to find weeds or dry shrubs to eat.†   (source)
  • They waited ten minutes, then a tall, gaunt man with a neat moustache and deeply tanned skin entered the room.†   (source)
  • As Mark talked, his face became grave, almost gaunt, and his index finger traced great circle routes across the cracking surface—missile and bomber trajectories.†   (source)
  • His face set in an expressionless mask, manacled, gaunt and unshaven as he stood in disheveled prison fatigues, the ex-Commandant was clearly at the edge of embarking upon a momentous journey.†   (source)
  • And Red, his face gaunt and dark with a week's stubble, his eyes deep-sunken, red-rimmed.†   (source)
  • The REVEREND JEREMIAH BROWN, a gaunt, thin-lipped man, strides on.†   (source)
  • Though he was about my age, he had prematurely thinning hair, a gray complexion, and a gaunt ascetic face, which made him seem much older.†   (source)
  • Without question, they were the gauntest, mangiest, slinkiest, and most oppressed group I had ever laid eyes on.†   (source)
  • Adam was more gaunt than Samuel remembered.†   (source)
  • In the gaunt, high-gabled wooden husk they were alone, as usual.†   (source)
  • He climbed the trail up Channa, edging his way across its gaunt face.†   (source)
  • His left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly to the side as if the breeze were pushing him.†   (source)
  • She could see the windmill at home, fluttering like some kind of gaunt, tethered bird.†   (source)
  • Dressed in his rags and accompanied everywhere by the boy, the tall, gaunt doctor looked like a peasant Seeker after Truth, and his companion like a patient, blindly devoted, and obedient disciple.†   (source)
  • He was tall and gaunt, with a pale skin and sunken eyes the colour of a kingfisher's wing, neither blue nor green.†   (source)
  • Years later, when Esther and Royal and Deborah were dead, and Gabriel was leaving the South, people remembered this sermon and the gaunt, possessed young man who had preached it.†   (source)
  • He had spoken but for a short time when the gaunt, bent form of Calhoun, wrapped in a black cloak, was dramatically assisted into his seat, where he sat trembling, scarcely able to move, and unnoticed by the speaker.†   (source)
  • I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.   (source)
  • He too has lost flesh; like ours, his face has an expression strained, dreamy and gaunt.   (source)
    gaunt = thin and bony
  • It was a very tall gaunt captain of artillery with a red scar along his jaw.   (source)
    gaunt = very thin and bony
  • Still bandaged and gaunt, they are now keeping watch over the doorway to the roses.†   (source)
  • Malfoy's gaunt, petrified face seemed burned on the inside of his eyes.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt, stooping old man with a toothless smile and a white beard that dropped to his navel.†   (source)
  • The Bloody Baron was the Slytherin ghost, a gaunt and silent specter covered in silver bloodstains.†   (source)
  • She was an aging woman, gaunt and wrinkled, but still handsome.†   (source)
  • Bod screeched as best as he could, and the night-gaunt made an amused chuckle.†   (source)
  • "Is it true?" said Gaunt in a deadly voice, advancing a step or two toward the terrified girl.†   (source)
  • Pete was gaunt, and he'd gone largely bald.†   (source)
  • His face was white and gaunt as it had been when he had escaped Azkaban.†   (source)
  • He was strikingly gaunt, with yellow, leathery skin and a curly red beard.†   (source)
  • 'Longbottom?' repeated Bellatrix, and a truly evil smile lit her gaunt face.†   (source)
  • His gaunt face went white under its film of perspiration.†   (source)
  • The rear of the store was a butcher shop, the domain of Ida's gaunt, aproned, white-hatted husband.†   (source)
  • One is about fifty, sort of gaunt, big pores, wire-rimmed bifocals, carrying a laptop.†   (source)
  • "Of course," said Black, and the ghost of a grin flitted across his gaunt face.†   (source)
  • Her clothes are dirty; her face is pale and gaunt.†   (source)
  • Through the front windows I saw the island and her gaunt mountain, looming large.†   (source)
  • Her gaunt face was even more ghostly under the blue flashes of the police car lights.†   (source)
  • And the face in the picture was extremely gaunt.†   (source)
  • Fire-blackened woods, the gaunt ribs of a church standing over a ruined village.†   (source)
  • His hair was thinner, nearly white, and his face was gaunt.†   (source)
  • He would visit the Gaunt shack first, then, and take Nagini with him.†   (source)
  • He was gaunt, but he spoke in a clear, firm voice.†   (source)
  • The right side of his face was gaunt, with sharp cheekbones and a grey eye beneath a heavy brow.†   (source)
  • Black's gaunt face broke into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it.†   (source)
  • Mr. Crouch looked more tired and somehow fiercer, gaunter…… Harry understood.†   (source)
  • He stood to one side, beside their horses, a gaunt grim man who watched the proceedings in silence.†   (source)
  • How could the boy know that he had hidden the ring in the Gaunt shack?†   (source)
  • I don't remember what a night-gaunt is."†   (source)
  • His face was gaunt, yellow, and pain-haunted.†   (source)
  • Father Hoyt leaned elbows on the ledge and raised his gaunt face to the exploding sky.†   (source)
  • "That's hardly the point, is it, Mr. Gaunt?" said Ogden.†   (source)
  • The night-gaunt crouched beside him, its leathery wings folded on its back.†   (source)
  • What's that?" said Gaunt sharply, also in Parseltongue, looking from his son to his daughter.†   (source)
  • Gaunt said he was descended from the Peverells!†   (source)
  • There was something gaunt and terrible about them as they stood there amid the gently falling snow.†   (source)
  • Harry looked up at Crouch and saw that he looked gaunter and grayer than ever before.†   (source)
  • "An' now 'e's out," said Stan, examining the newspaper picture of Black's gaunt face again.†   (source)
  • Marvolo Gaunt said he was descended from the Peverells!†   (source)
  • It was a severe look that emphasized the hard, gaunt lines of his face.†   (source)
  • "All right, all right, all right!" bellowed Gaunt.†   (source)
  • But he heard cries, like eagle cries, and once again Bod called for help in Night-Gaunt.†   (source)
  • Her face was windburnt and gaunt, but it had lost none of its determination.†   (source)
  • Marvolo Gaunt's ring lay on the desk before Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • "Hanging out of the window to look at a Muggle?" said Gaunt quietly.†   (source)
  • Don't want the night-gaunts stealing him.†   (source)
  • Gaunt," Ogden began again, "as I've said: the reason for my visit —"†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt young man with nervous hands and a feverish look in his pale lilac eyes.†   (source)
  • It said, "This is the third time the night-gaunts have saved your life, Bod.†   (source)
  • The gaunt man with the grey stubbled face laughed.†   (source)
  • What's that, then, his sentence?" said Gaunt, his voice rising angrily.†   (source)
  • The night-gaunts dealt with the matter silently.†   (source)
  • There's things to eat if you look hard, but don't antagonize the night-gaunts.†   (source)
  • "Should've made your presence known, shouldn't you?" said Gaunt aggressively.†   (source)
  • "I heard you the first time!" snapped Gaunt.†   (source)
  • "Night-gaunts coming?" shouted the Bishop of Bath and Wells.†   (source)
  • With a howl of rage, Gaunt ran toward his daughter.†   (source)
  • Night-gaunts, in the red skies above Ghidheim ….†   (source)
  • "Be quiet, boy," snarled Gaunt in Parseltongue, and Morfin fell silent again.†   (source)
  • Bod could not tell if any of the ghouls had been killed or injured fighting the night-gaunts.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gaunt spoke out of the corner of his mouth to Morfin.†   (source)
  • Gaunt imitated Ogden's voice, making it pompous and singsong.†   (source)
  • I stumbled across the ring hidden in the ruin of the Gaunt's house.†   (source)
  • But isn't it… sir, isn't it the same ring Marvolo Gaunt showed Ogden?†   (source)
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