emaciate

Example Sentences

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His frame was emaciate in the extreme from the prodigious toils which he had endured.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

His fragile form was almost feminine in its proportions, but an eagle eye calmly reposed in his pallid and emaciate countenance.

From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

John placed his hand,90 Pale and emaciate, on his breast, and said: Thy words might raise from earth the heaviest heart.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by Gilfillan, George

Did it struggle frail and frailer to a beam emaciate?

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

With an eager gaze, she fixed her eye upon her pale and wasted cheek and her emaciate frame, and the dreadful truth, with the suddenness of a revelation, burst upon her.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)