skin-and-bone
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A rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Soon that skin-and-bone Andersen, the storekeeper, got on the boat, and then came little Magnus, the telegraph messenger, jogging along.
From What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself by Dikken Zwilgmeyer
The old witch-doctor was awake, and, seated by his fire, looked more like a big black spider than a man, such a skin-and-bone old skeleton had he become.
From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford
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