All 17 Uses
gaunt
in
A Game of Thrones
(Auto-generated)
- Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk.†
p. 8.9 *
- He was a gaunt young man with nervous hands and a feverish look in his pale lilac eyes.†
p. 28.9
- It was a severe look that emphasized the hard, gaunt lines of his face.†
p. 33.9
- His uncle was sharp-featured and gaunt as a mountain crag, but there was always a hint of laughter in his blue-grey eyes.†
p. 53.1
- He was gaunt, with limp blond hair and pale eyes deep-sunk in a bony face, and there was a dagger in his hand.†
p. 132.5
- He stood to one side, beside their horses, a gaunt grim man who watched the proceedings in silence.†
p. 145.1
- The gaunt outlines of huge catapults and monstrous wooden cranes stood sentry up there, like the skeletons of great birds, and among them walked men in black as small as ants.†
p. 184.1
- Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods.†
p. 240.4
- His brown hair was salted with white now, his face chiseled gaunt by time, yet the years had not touched his pride.†
p. 285.1
- The right side of his face was gaunt, with sharp cheekbones and a grey eye beneath a heavy brow.†
p. 302.7
- Her face was windburnt and gaunt, but it had lost none of its determination.†
p. 329.8
- Grey stubble covered his gaunt face.†
p. 403.1
- The gaunt man with the grey stubbled face laughed.†
p. 404.1
- There was something gaunt and terrible about them as they stood there amid the gently falling snow.†
p. 405.1
- The man with the gaunt stubbly face made a grab for the reins, and for half a second he had them ...and then Grey Wind was on him, bearing him down.†
p. 405.4
- Others were shaved clean, their features gaunt and sharp-edged as the iron longswords across their laps.†
p. 732.6
- Lord Rickard Karstark, gaunt and hollow-eyed in his grief, took his seat like a man in a nightmare, his long beard uncombed and unwashed.†
p. 792.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, gaunt can reference a place such as a landscape or a home, in which case it indicates that the place is bleak or barren.