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  • He was tall, gaunt, and painfully shy, and he preferred to stay out of the limelight.†   (source)
  • "Without any supper?" said Snape, a triumphant smile flickering across his gaunt face.†   (source)
  • Gaunt men with creased cheeks and women with dark red lipstick sat along the bar.†   (source)
  • He felt weak and dizzy; chills racked his gaunt frame.†   (source)
  • Exhausted and barely able to eat, Sylvia crept through November, haunted by nightmares and growing ever more gaunt.†   (source)
  • Her faded hair, knotted in a tight bun on the nape of her gaunt neck, glinted gold-red in the light.†   (source)
  • They must think of me as a fusty old dragon crouched on an ill-gotten hoard — some gaunt dog-in-the-manger, some desiccated, censorious wardress, a prim-lipped keeper of the keys, guarding the dungeon in which starved Laura is chained to the wall.†   (source)
  • She thought about how gaunt he'd looked.†   (source)
  • The hallway had become like a convalescent home for a hunger strike, with rows of gaunt faces peering out from beneath stained blankets.†   (source)
  • He shoved a cloth sack at gaunt, big-nosed Herbert.†   (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)
  • Those of us who had remained behind were gaunt and pale.†   (source)
  • None of them wore any kind of discernible facial expression—they were all sallow and gaunt, miserably sad to look upon.†   (source)
  • His face gaunt and his teeth maniacal.†   (source)
  • All she said was, "Night-Gaunt?"†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • A gaunt peak poked into the sky.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Gaunt children, blond with malnutrition, selling smutty magazines and food they couldn't afford to eat themselves.†   (source)
  • The darkness up here is not as dense, and I can see his gaunt face dusted in concrete, bleeding from fresh scratches.†   (source)
  • He is gaunt, frightened, and sweating in his greatcoat.†   (source)
  • Though the word 'boy' hardly seemed to do this gaunt individual justice.†   (source)
  • It wasn't just that he was weak and gaunt; he was changed in a more fundamental way.†   (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)
  • He went to see a Mr. Bingham at Lawrence and Company, a "tall, gaunt, white-bearded Yankee with steel-blue eyes."†   (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)
  • The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.†   (source)
  • His face was gaunt, but his eyes still glittered evilly.†   (source)
  • Capricorn was a tall man, and gaunt, as if the skin had been stretched too tight over his bones.†   (source)
  • Her beauty had gone to a kind of fragile gauntness.†   (source)
  • Not gaunt like Father Hoyt's, merely carved from cold stone.†   (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.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • From there he wasted very quickly to a lethargic little bundle of skin-covered bones and a gaunt, skin-covered skull.†   (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)
  • If so, why do I feel such pity for her, for her gaunt face?†   (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)
  • The gaunt shadows of Band Society music stands and instrument cases stood around like sentinels.†   (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...."The sounds spread from him to his neighbors, spreading across the flight deck like a wave.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt man, and Blomkvist thought that he looked at that moment like a melancholy scarecrow.†   (source)
  • Her still-gaunt face breaks into a wide smile when she sees me.†   (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)
  • She was gaunt, sunken, but Dan saw shadows of a pretty woman gone old and frail.†   (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)
  • A man, gaunt, bent like a comma, stood next to her, holding a hat to his chest.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt young man who seemed suspicious of conversation that strayed outside certain unspecified guidelines.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Neth had definitely been sickly and gaunt, but perhaps that had been from tuberculosis, parasites, or exhaustion.†   (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)
  • It didn't register till we were in his embrace that his head had been shaved or that his face had become gaunt.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Simon had never seen his face before, and he hadn't realized how gaunt Samuel was, or how old he looked.†   (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)
  • The first time he'd seen her, she was pale and gaunt, almost desperately thin.†   (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)
  • Gaunt, Abraham Lincoln but without the height or the beard.†   (source)
  • He's a tall man, gaunt, with deeply creased cheeks.†   (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)
  • She only looked at us for a few moments, with that haunted, gaunt expression before her mother prodded her along and she ducked into the doorway, vanishing.†   (source)
  • Potatoes had made him gaunt.†   (source)
  • Major Major's father was a towering, gaunt man in heavy shoes and a black woolen suit.†   (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)
  • He was thin, gaunt, totally unremarkable in every way but one.†   (source)
  • He looked over sixty, gaunt, wilted as his shirt, underweight, leaning on that cane and favoring his right leg.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I found her last winter, wandering gaunt in the middle of the road, her hide draped loose upon her bony nethers.†   (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)
  • She's gaunt, wrung out from crying.†   (source)
  • The doctor pushed his gaunt frame out of the chair and walked unsteadily to the window overlooking the harbor.†   (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)
  • The rain was over, but the leaden clouds added a gloom to the already gloomy scene....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)
  • Thin as a rake, her eyes are large and yellow, her cheeks gaunt, the skin stretched tight to her skull.†   (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)
  • A gaunt mulatta tells Ivanito he smells of death.†   (source)
  • He had not yet seen her smile soften the Northern gauntness and rage into heart-stopping feminine beauty.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They waited ten minutes, then a tall, gaunt man with a neat moustache and deeply tanned skin entered the room.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Many of the men were lean, almost gaunt.†   (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)
  • She looked skinny to me, even gaunt, but I probably thought that because of her hair.†   (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)
  • Then, shocked by the sunken eyes and gaunt Confederate faces, some of the bluecoats open their rucksacks and share their food.†   (source)
  • The frail young man was a gaunt man with white hair.†   (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)
  • He was tall and gaunt, with a pale skin and sunken eyes the colour of a kingfisher's wing, neither blue nor green.†   (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)
  • And Red, his face gaunt and dark with a week's stubble, his eyes deep-sunken, red-rimmed.†   (source)
  • Adam was more gaunt than Samuel remembered.†   (source)
  • He climbed the trail up Channa, edging his way across its gaunt face.†   (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)
  • The REVEREND JEREMIAH BROWN, a gaunt, thin-lipped man, strides on†   (source)
  • In the gaunt, high-gabled wooden husk they were alone, as usual.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Without question, they were the gauntest, mangiest, slinkiest, and most oppressed group I had ever laid eyes on.†   (source)
  • She could see the windmill at home, fluttering like some kind of gaunt, tethered bird.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    gaunt = very thin and bony
  • 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
  • The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.   (source)
  • Hother Umber, the gaunt old man called Whoresbane, went grim-faced and scowling.†   (source)
  • Lord Tytos Blackwood met him in the outer ward, mounted on a destrier as gaunt as himself.†   (source)
  • Gaunt and bent and crooked, with a left shoulder half a foot higher than his right, he had a scrawny neck, squinty grey eyes, and yellow teeth.†   (source)
  • The southerners looked a sorry lot, Asha thought—gaunt and hollow-cheeked, some pale and sick, others with red and wind-scoured faces.†   (source)
  • He slew a greybeard and a beardless boy, a giant, a gaunt man with filed teeth, a girl with thick red hair.†   (source)
  • For every man of fighting age, Jon saw three women and as many children, gaunt-faced things with hollow cheeks and staring eyes.†   (source)
  • Summer prowled through the silent woods, a long grey shadow that grew more gaunt with every hunt, for living game could not be found.†   (source)
  • Then the queen beckoned to another curious member of her entourage: a tall gaunt stick of a man, his height accentuated by an outlandish three-tiered hat of purple felt.†   (source)
  • When Squirrel returned, the other four were with her: gaunt grey-haired Myrtle, Willow Witch-Eye with her long black braid, Frenya of the thick waist and enormous breasts, Holly with her knife.†   (source)
  • Still bandaged and gaunt, they are now keeping watch over the doorway to the roses.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt, stooping old man with a toothless smile and a white beard that dropped to his navel.†   (source)
  • Malfoy's gaunt, petrified face seemed burned on the inside of his eyes.†   (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)
  • Gaunt said he was descended from the Peverells!†   (source)
  • Her clothes are dirty; her face is pale and gaunt.†   (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)
  • The rear of the store was a butcher shop, the domain of Ida's gaunt, aproned, white-hatted husband.†   (source)
  • 'Longbottom?' repeated Bellatrix, and a truly evil smile lit her gaunt face.†   (source)
  • They'd been thin to start with, and had become gaunt.†   (source)
  • "Of course," said Black, and the ghost of a grin flitted across his gaunt face.†   (source)
  • And the face in the picture was extremely gaunt.†   (source)
  • His face was gaunt, yellow, and pain-haunted.†   (source)
  • His face was almost as gaunt and wrinkled as the sun god's.†   (source)
  • His face was white and gaunt as it had been when he had escaped Azkaban.†   (source)
  • Through the front windows I saw the island and her gaunt mountain, looming large.†   (source)
  • His hair was thinner, nearly white, and his face was gaunt.†   (source)
  • Pete was gaunt, and he'd gone largely bald.†   (source)
  • He was strikingly gaunt, with yellow, leathery skin and a curly red beard.†   (source)
  • One is about fifty, sort of gaunt, big pores, wire-rimmed bifocals, carrying a laptop.†   (source)
  • Father Hoyt leaned elbows on the ledge and raised his gaunt face to the exploding sky.†   (source)
  • His face was so gaunt now that the veins of his temples showed as if carved out of stone.†   (source)
  • He was gaunt, but he spoke in a clear, firm voice.†   (source)
  • He stood to one side, beside their horses, a gaunt grim man who watched the proceedings in silence.†   (source)
  • "Be quiet, boy," snarled Gaunt in Parseltongue, and Morfin fell silent again.†   (source)
  • The gaunt man with the grey stubbled face laughed.†   (source)
  • Harry looked up at Crouch and saw that he looked gaunter and grayer than ever before.†   (source)
  • His gaunt face went white under its film of perspiration.†   (source)
  • It seemed his eyes were huge, too huge, and the white face that framed them too gaunt.†   (source)
  • But he heard cries, like eagle cries, and once again Bod called for help in Night-Gaunt.†   (source)
  • "An' now 'e's out," said Stan, examining the newspaper picture of Black's gaunt face again.†   (source)
  • Fire-blackened woods, the gaunt ribs of a church standing over a ruined village.†   (source)
  • He would visit the Gaunt shack first, then, and take Nagini with him.†   (source)
  • Black's gaunt face broke into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it.†   (source)
  • Bod screeched as best as he could, and the night-gaunt made an amused chuckle.†   (source)
  • Mr. Crouch looked more tired and somehow fiercer, gaunter...Harry understood.†   (source)
  • She was gaunt such as I had seldom seen her.†   (source)
  • Marvolo Gaunt's ring lay on the desk before Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • But isn't it...sir, isn't it the same ring Marvolo Gaunt showed Ogden?†   (source)
  • There was something gaunt and terrible about them as they stood there amid the gently falling snow.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt young man with nervous hands and a feverish look in his pale lilac eyes.†   (source)
  • "Is it true?" said Gaunt in a deadly voice, advancing a step or two toward the terrified girl.†   (source)
  • Bod could not tell if any of the ghouls had been killed or injured fighting the night-gaunts.†   (source)
  • Marvolo Gaunt said he was descended from the Peverells!†   (source)
  • It said, "This is the third time the night-gaunts have saved your life, Bod.†   (source)
  • How could the boy know that he had hidden the ring in the Gaunt shack?†   (source)
  • "All right, all right, all right!" bellowed Gaunt.†   (source)
  • The right side of his face was gaunt, with sharp cheekbones and a grey eye beneath a heavy brow.†   (source)
  • "Should've made your presence known, shouldn't you?" said Gaunt aggressively.†   (source)
  • It was a severe look that emphasized the hard, gaunt lines of his face.†   (source)
  • The night-gaunts dealt with the matter silently.†   (source)
  • Gaunt screamed, "Mend it, you pointless lump, mend it!"†   (source)
  • Her face was windburnt and gaunt, but it had lost none of its determination.†   (source)
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