All dusty in the sunshine our red hound, Mirliton, is warming himself.So gaunt is he you feel sure he must be a fast runner.Certainly he runs after glimpsed rabbits on Sundays in the country, but he never caught any.…Cited from Light, by Henri Barbusse [Tr.: Fitzwater Wray]
Why is the room so gaunt and great?Cited from Underwoods, by Robert Louis Stevenson
His clean-shaved face and new apparel made him vastly different.He was young, and, had he not been so gaunt, he would have been fine-looking, Lucy thought.…Cited from Wildfire, by Zane Grey
I doubt if he ever knew that a hand gave him water.His eyes were meaningless, and he was so gaunt that his body scarcely made a ridge on the bed.Some beans and mouldy bread were put in for my rations.…Cited from Lazarre, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
He caught James Polder's gaze, and turned from its intense questioning.Young cheeks had no business to be so gaunt.Polder picked up the figurine in red clay, studied it with a troubled brow, and replaced it with a gesture of hopelessness.…Cited from The Three Black Pennys, by Joseph Hergesheimer
They seemed to Harry to be withered indeed, they were so gaunt with hardship and drawn up so much with cold.Many wore the blue Northern overcoats that they had captured at Bath, and more had tied up their throats and ears in the red woolen comforters of the day, procured at the towns through which they passed.…Cited from The Scouts of Stonewall, by Joseph A Altsheler
The mellow Virginia country, with its winding, red roads, wealth of woodland, and its grave old houses that were the more haughtily aloof for the poverty that gnawed at their vitals.This wilderness was so gaunt, so parched; she closed her eyes and thought of a bit of landscape at home.A young forest of silver beeches growing straight and fine as the threads on a loom; and through the gray perspective of their satin-smooth trunks you caught the white gleam of a fairy cascade as it tumbled over the moss-grown stones to the brook below.…Cited from Judith of the Plains, by Marie Manning
And I'm praying again as I sit here and watch for the doctor's light to go out.I hate to go to sleep and leave it burning, for he sits up so late and he is so gaunt and thin and tired-looking most times.That's what the last prayer is about, almost always -- sleep for him and no night call!…Cited from The Melting of Molly, by Maria Thompson Daviess
She was a tall, angular woman, so gaunt that her bones rattled.Warble wondered if Bill would really like her to be like that.…Cited from Ptomaine Street, by Carolyn Wells
The reason why I know more than I used to is because I asked Carlo some questions once.I asked him what made him so gaunt and thin and why he had such an enquiring expression on his face and such a hump on the top of his head.He didn't answer right away, and -- I noticed the enquiring expression vanished.…Cited from Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper, et. al.
Gaunt with famine, still did Haroun's trusty hand For his latest dead companion scoop sepulture in the sand.Then he died; and pious Nature, where he lay so gaunt and grim, Moved by her divine compassion, did the same kind thing for him.…Cited from The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860, by Various
From the window of this apartment they could see, through the bleary March light, the dowager-like Grosse Garten where Deming paraded in style with Frau Bucher and Fraeulein.Although the trees and shrubbery were now so gaunt and chilly of aspect, soon they would be green and gay with beautiful spring, and Anderson would find them cheering.…Cited from Villa Elsa, by Stuart Henry
I at once spurred alongside Raffles, as he rode, bronzed and bearded, with warworn wide-awake over eyes grown keen as a hawk's, and a cutty-pipe sticking straight out from his front teeth.I can see him now, so gaunt and grim and debonair, yet already with much of the nonsense gone out of him, though I thought he only smiled on my misgivings.…Cited from Raffles, Further Adventures, by E.W. Hornung
And he began to grope among a number of things that were thrown in a confused heap at the back of the shop.While in this attitude he looked so gaunt and grim that he reminded me of an aged vulture stooping over carrion, and yet there was something pitiable about him too.In a way I was sorry for him; a poor half-witted wretch, whose life had been full of such gall and wormwood.…Cited from Vendetta, by Marie Corelli
"The strangest thing about it is that this year and last he came back fat and sleek -- always before, you know, he has been so gaunt and starved looking in the fall."She leaned over and stroked the cat under his chin; he purred deeply in response, and looked up into her eyes, his own like wells of unfathomed speech.…Cited from Golden Stories, by Various
Jock was holding her tight, and patting her shoulder, and pressing his healthy, glowing cheek close to hers that was so gaunt and pale.Cited from Roast Beef, Medium, by Edna Ferber
More recently he had expended a legacy of a thousand or two of dollars in purchasing Mexican scrip, and thereby became the proprietor of a province; which, however, so far as Peter could find out, was situated where he might have had an empire for the same money -- in the clouds.From a search after this valuable real estate Peter returned so gaunt and threadbare that on reaching New England the scarecrows in the corn-fields beckoned to him as he passed by.…Cited from Twice Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
From a search after this valuable real estate Peter returned so gaunt and threadbare that, on reaching New England, the scarecrows in the cornfields beckoned to him, as he passed by.Cited from From Twice Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yesterday it would have made the Manor Cartier and all around it look like Arcady.But as it shone upon the ruins of the mill, when Jean Jacques went out into the working world again, it made so gaunt and hideous a picture that, in spite of himself, a cry of misery came from his lips.Through all the misfortunes which had come to him the outward semblance of things had remained, and when he went in and out of the plantation of the Manor Cartier, there was no physical change in the surroundings, which betrayed the troubles and disasters fallen upon its overlord.…Cited from The PG Works Of Gilbert Parker, Complete
The platform was filled with a great crowd of peasantry, and an overflow poured down the sides of it and surged up the hill on the right and the left.At sight of me, so gaunt and worn, my eyes wild with despair and feverish from sleeplessness, a tangled growth of beard upon my hollow cheeks, they uttered as with one voice a great cry of awe.The multitude swayed and rippled, and then with a curious sound as that of a great wind, all went down upon their knees before me -- all save the array of cripples huddled in the foreground, brought thither, poor wretches, in the hope of a miraculous healing.…Cited from The Strolling Saint, by Rafael Sabatini