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