emaciate

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As the fugitives from France, emaciate, pale, and woe-stricken, with tattered and dusty garb, recited in England, Switzerland, and Germany the horrid story of the massacre, the hearts of their auditors were frozen with horror.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Chisca, the chieftain, was far advanced in years, a feeble, emaciate old man of very diminutive stature.

From Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate?

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

After a month of toil and suffering, ragged and emaciate he at midnight reached the settlement.

From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

His frame was emaciate in the extreme from the prodigious toils which he had endured.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various