fleshless
Example Sentences
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Fleshless and singed, but still he knew it was a hind leg.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
Now here the maiden Mödgud stood, Waiting to take the toll of blood,— A maiden horrible to sight, Fleshless, with shroud and pall bedight.”
From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
Thin and unkempt is thy hair, Fleshless as parchment thy cheek, Sad and ungainly thine air, Hollow the words thou dost speak, Bony and grasping thy hand, Dreary thy days in the land.
From City Ballads by Carleton, Will
Let them cover their Eyeless Sockets with their Fleshless Hands and fade forever from the imagination of Men.
From The Ghosts And Other Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green
Homeless petrels shriek their omen Harshly 'mid thy billows' roar; Fleshless bones of shipwreck'd seamen Dash against thy rock-ribb'd shore.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
