emaciate
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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)
Napoleon was pale and emaciate from the toils of his batteries at Toulon, and from his sleepless exertions in fortifying the coast.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
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)
He retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.
From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power 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
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