Emaciated

Examples

• He had a head of abnormal size, with highly intellectual features and a very small and emaciated body. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It is the figure of a youth whose face is hollow and whose eyes have an emaciated glare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the holy vision of her radiant beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My cousin welcomed me with warm affection; yet tears were in her eyes, as she beheld my emaciated frame and feverish cheeks. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He was deadly pale and terribly emaciated, with the protruding, brilliant eyes of a man whose spirit was greater than his strength. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• My dear, the poor emaciated creatures all but worshipped him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She tapped her emaciated bosom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Also, that your father was at one time much emaciated by illness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In all the crowd of wan, emaciated faces, he saw not one which was not happier for his sympathy and charity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Typist: Nathaniel