skin-and-bone
Example Sentences
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A rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
In short, illness reduced Clare almost to skin-and-bone.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
