All 4 Uses of
emaciated
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- In stature she was tall, somewhat slender, and, in her latter days, even emaciated.†
Scene 1 *emaciated = unhealthfully thin
- She had just awakened from an unquiet slumber, and I had been watching, with feelings half of anxiety, half of vague terror, the workings of her emaciated countenance.†
Scene 1
- When a door, at length, closed upon her, my glance sought instinctively and eagerly the countenance of the brother—but he had buried his face in his hands, and I could only perceive that a far more than ordinary wanness had overspread the emaciated fingers through which trickled many passionate tears.†
Scene 3
- There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame.†
Scene 3
Definition:
very thin -- especially from disease or hunger or cold