All 20 Uses of
gaunt
in
The Graveyard Book
- Night-Gaunt?†
p. 72.3
- I don't remember what a night-gaunt is.†
p. 72.3
- All she said was, "Night-Gaunt?"†
p. 72.5 *
- Don't want the night-gaunts stealing him.†
p. 83.1
- Night-gaunts, in the red skies above Ghidheim ...Bod took a deep breath, and shouted, just as Miss Lupescu had taught him.†
p. 83.2
- The night-gaunt rose again in the dry desert air, to rejoin its fellows, and Bod felt all hope vanish.†
p. 83.6
- The ghouls divided into two factions: there were those who felt that the vanishing of their friends was meaningless, and those who believed that something, probably the night-gaunts, was out to get them.†
p. 87.6
- They came to no agreement, except for a general agreement to arm themselves with rocks to throw at the night-gaunts should they descend, and they filled the pockets of their suits and robes with pebbles from the desert floor.†
p. 87.7
- "Night-gaunts coming?" shouted the Bishop of Bath and Wells.†
p. 88.2
- But he heard cries, like eagle cries, and once again Bod called for help in Night-Gaunt.†
p. 88.4
- No one tried to stop him this time, but he was not sure that anyone could have heard him over the cries of the night-gaunts, or the oaths and curses of the ghoul-folk as they pitched and flung their stones into the air.†
p. 88.5
- Bod could not tell if any of the ghouls had been killed or injured fighting the night-gaunts.†
p. 89.1
- Bod made the screeching noise that means "Help," in Night-Gaunt, and the night-gaunt smiled and made a deep hooting noise in return.†
p. 93.5
- Bod made the screeching noise that means "Help," in Night-Gaunt, and the night-gaunt smiled and made a deep hooting noise in return.†
p. 93.5
- The night-gaunt crouched beside him, its leathery wings folded on its back.†
p. 93.7
- It said, "This is the third time the night-gaunts have saved your life, Bod.†
p. 94.0
- The night-gaunts dealt with the matter silently.†
p. 94.4
- She said something in the night-gaunt's screeching tongue and it came over, held Bod up while he put his arms around Miss Lupescu's neck.†
p. 94.7
- Bod screeched as best as he could, and the night-gaunt made an amused chuckle.†
p. 94.9
- There's things to eat if you look hard, but don't antagonize the night-gaunts.†
p. 272.8
Definition:
very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone