All 4 Uses of
gaunt
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender—and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.†
Chpt 1.4
- For, the time was to come, when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter, in their idleness and hunger, so long, as to conceive the idea of improving on his method, and hauling up men by those ropes and pulleys, to flare upon the darkness of their condition.†
Chpt 1.5
- There was no one bidden to the marriage but Mr. Lorry; there was even to be no bridesmaid but the gaunt Miss Pross.†
Chpt 2.17 *
- I cannot read what I have written with this gaunt hand.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone