skin-and-bone
Example Sentences
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A rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature."
From Time Magazine Archive
In short, illness reduced Clare almost to skin-and-bone.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
Why do you churn smooth waters rough again, Selfish old skin-and-bone?
From Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves
A funnier little dried-up skin-and-bone creature no one could have desired to see.
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby
"And have you never observed the miserable skin-and-bone plight of my lord's hounds?"
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 by Various
