emaciate
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I cherished her reproach like physic-wine, For I saw in that emaciate shape of bitterness and bleakness A nobler soul than mine.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas
He dressed with the utmost care; painted his wrinkled brow and emaciate cheeks, and resorted to all the appliances of art to maintain the aspect of youth and vigor.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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)
Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate?
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas
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)
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