All 20 Uses
gaunt
in
A Dance With Dragons
(Auto-generated)
- The wolves were as famished as he was, gaunt and cold and hungry, and the prey ...two men and a woman, a babe in arms, fleeing from defeat to death.†
p. 4.9 *
- One day, as they fled, a rider came galloping through the woods on a gaunt white horse, shouting that they all should make for the Milkwater, that the Weeper was gathering warriors to cross the Bridge of Skulls and take the Shadow Tower.†
p. 6.4
- The direwolf moved toward the meat, a gaunt grey shadow sliding from tree to tree, through pools of moonlight and over mounds of snow.†
p. 74.2
- His voice rattled in his throat, as thin and gaunt as he was.†
p. 77.2
- One was gaunt, with flinty eyes, a long white beard, and a face as hard as a winter frost.†
p. 181.9
- As gaunt and starved as the elk had been, the steaks the ranger carved from him had sustained them for seven days, until they finished the last of them huddled over a fire in the ruins of an old hillfort.†
p. 187.3
- And every one grey-faced and gaunt.†
p. 297.1
- One was gaunt and sallow, with thinning black hair and a blade of a nose.†
p. 313.9
- Jon ripped off his gaunt let, took the letter, cracked the seal.†
p. 414.9
- Summer prowled through the silent woods, a long grey shadow that grew more gaunt with every hunt, for living game could not be found.†
p. 496.2
- Gaunt men with sunken eyes squatted amidst sand and stones, shitting out their lives in stinking streams of brown and red.†
p. 522.1
- Hother Umber, the gaunt old man called Whoresbane, went grim-faced and scowling.†
p. 546.9
- 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.†
p. 635.4
- Lord Tytos Blackwood met him in the outer ward, mounted on a destrier as gaunt as himself.†
p. 699.1
- 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.†
p. 743.3
- For every man of fighting age, Jon saw three women and as many children, gaunt-faced things with hollow cheeks and staring eyes.†
p. 772.1
- He slew a greybeard and a beardless boy, a giant, a gaunt man with filed teeth, a girl with thick red hair.†
p. 842.6
- Almost all the boys were thin, some past the point of gauntness, with spindly shanks and arms like twigs.†
p. 846.8
- 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.†
p. 894.2
- The southerners looked a sorry lot, Asha thought—gaunt and hollow-cheeked, some pale and sick, others with red and wind-scoured faces.†
p. 898.2
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.