emaciate
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His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
His step became feeble, his form emaciate, his countenance haggard.
From Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
As the fugitives from France, emaciate, pale, and woe-stricken, with tattered and dusty garb, recited in England, Switzerland, and Germany the horrid story of the massacre, the hearts of their auditors were frozen with horror.
From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
The body continues to emaciate, even with plenty of food and a good appetite, so that the quantity of milk is small.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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
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