skin-and-bone
Example Sentences
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A rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature."
From Time Magazine Archive
A funnier little dried-up skin-and-bone creature no one could have desired to see.
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell
Why do you churn smooth waters rough again, Selfish old skin-and-bone?
From Fairies and Fusiliers by Graves, Robert
"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
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 Zwilgmeyer, Dikken
