emaciate

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Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate?

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.

From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

On the following morning the Austrian army, emaciate, humiliated, and dejected, defiled from the gates of Mantua to throw down their arms at the feet of the triumphant Republicans.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

With an eager gaze, she fixed her eye upon her pale and wasted cheek and her emaciate frame, and the dreadful truth, with the suddenness of a revelation, burst upon her.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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)