skin-and-bone

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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 Nitobe, Inazo

"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

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)

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