skin-and-bone
Example Sentences
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A rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature."
From Time Magazine Archive
Don Quixote takes more pride in his rusty spear and skin-and-bone horse than in gold and lands, and a samurai is in hearty sympathy with his exaggerated confrère of La Mancha.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
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 so immobile was she, sitting with her sinewy skin-and-bone arms lying folded over her silk apron, that she might have been taken for an image rather than for a living woman.
From The Borough Treasurer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
"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
