skin-and-bone
Example Sentences
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A rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature."
From Time Magazine Archive
Why do you churn smooth waters rough again, Selfish old skin-and-bone?
From Fairies and Fusiliers by Graves, Robert
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
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
"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
