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 Clare, John

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 Nitobe, Inazo

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 Mitford, Bertram

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 Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)