Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

The cap was stuck and made a thin rusty squeaking as he applied pressure.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

His gray hair was thin, his face beginning to attract a swarm of wrinkles.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

His captain was thin and haggard and his beautiful boots were worn and shabby.

His sandy hair was already beginning to thin and recede at the sides, and Abel looked quickly away.

There never was a season before, but now they want to thin 'em out on account of the drouth ''.

Herb, an expert on narrow ties, thin lapels, and swatches, was men's fashion editor of Parvenu, the weekly magazine with the tremendous circulation.

Her uniform was of rich, raw silk, in a shade which matched her hair, skin, housepaint, and cats, and since she was so thin as to be almost shapeless, she rather resembled a frozen fish stick.

The simple, clever production was also able to tread the thin line between those extremes.

It was enough for people to know that at one time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed -- watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance, as thin as the seams on her stockings, and still thinner.

He expected Concetta's thin hand to reach down to grasp the boy, and her shrill, impetuous voice to sound against the rotundity of his disfigured flesh that was never sure of hearing anything.

Eugenia hated being cold worse than anything, and she was beginning to find the joys of poverty wearing thin.

It was Dandy Brandon, clad only in a bloody loincloth, emaciated and quaking as if the devil were breathing hard on him.

He was a man with fair skin, thin, emaciated, with a sparse beard, a slightly hunched frame, sunken eyes and protruding forehead, and the bases of his fingers were hairless.

When Diocletian reappeared in public on 1 March 305, he was emaciated and barely recognizable.

The other god was entrusted to another daughter named but her hair fell out and became emaciated so she could not perform her duties.

Photos of Gold's emaciated body were plastered all over tabloid magazines, and she was one of the first celebrities ever to be formally outed for anorexia.

He had now been in the hospital three months, and was quite emaciated, and like one in the last stage of consumption ... On making my morning visit, and inquiring, as usual, of his rest at the nurse, she happened to mention the strong notions he had got in his head, she said, of home, and of his friends.

In the game, his soul is trapped in an emaciated human husk where he was imprisoned by his former pupil, the Prussian Baron, Alexander of Brennenburg.

Hellfire Pass is so called because the sight of emaciated prisoners labouring at night by torchlight was said to resemble a scene from Hell.

" Staley's physical appearance had become even worse than before: he had lost several teeth, his skin was sickly pale, and he was severely emaciated.

Artists of the late medieval and Renaissance periods often represented him as small and emaciated, with three mitres at his feet ( representing the three bishoprics which he had rejected ) and holding in his hand the IHS monogram with rays emanating from it ( representing his devotion to the " Holy Name of Jesus "), which was his main attribute.

She was aged 17 and was greatly emaciated, having lost 33 pounds.

Gull noted that her emaciated appearance was more extreme than normally occurs in tubercular cases.

His only public appearance during this time was a photograph of him published on the front page of the People's Daily and other major newspapers on May 1, 1962, showing a somewhat emaciated Chen shaking hands with Chairman Mao, while Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Deng Xiaoping ( the entire inner core of leadership of that time, with the exception of Lin Biao ) look on.

Oldman lost weight to play the emaciated Vicious by eating nothing but " steamed fish and lots of melon ," but was briefly hospitalized when he lost too much weight.

He also toured in road companies of such shows as Tobacco Road and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which he was properly emaciated as the cancer-ridden Big Daddy, a part, he said, which Tennessee Williams wrote for him.

Eventually, the decision to aid the King was made in part out of fear of violence, and partly out of pity for the ragged and emaciated condition of the King's fellowship.

The reality was that Feffer had already been in prison for three years, and his Soviet captors did not want to bring him to Robeson immediately because he had become emaciated for lack of food.

The article " The picture that fooled the world " argued that ITN's footage, in which an emaciated Bosnian Muslim man stood behind a barbed wire fence, was designed to portray a Nazi-style extermination camp, while Deichmann claimed " It was not a prison, and certainly not a ' concentration camp ', but a collection centre for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished.

: He was an awesome figure: emaciated, barefoot and in rags, with eyes that " looked right through you " and long, shaggy hair.

He was a master's mate on the gunboats Elk and Naiad until his health gave out and he returned home emaciated.

As a result, he was fairly emaciated, slurred his words, and twitched.