skin-and-bone
Example Sentences
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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
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
In short, illness reduced Clare almost to skin-and-bone.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by Clare, John
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
