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Significats de gauntness en anglès

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

Ús de gauntness en anglès
1
Spider's arms, impossibly strong for their gauntness, cradled her against his chest.
The bone palace
2
His features, always inclined to gauntness, became even sharper and more pronounced.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
3
The gauntness, she knew, was a side effect of cold sleep.
The Sails of Tau Ceti
4
He had lost weight, and his cheekbones stuck out with gauntness.
The viking takes a knight
5
It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
The Guardian
6
Then she noticed the gauntness of his bronzed face and how lean he was.
The Gold Trail
7
He is the strongest man I ever saw, and his gauntness is all muscle.
The Melting of Molly
8
Sir Richmond's brown gauntness was, he noted, greatly set off by his suit of grey.
The Secret Places of the Heart
9
Youth and gauntness, I said, without much hope.
The Irish Times
10
And take care of him. He turned back and looked at the gauntness of Peter Marlowe.
King Rat
11
His is a wall-paper with a vengeance-onequarter of the universe laid bare in all its gauntness.
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
12
He was growing thin even to gauntness.
Nature's Serial Story
13
It emphasized the gauntness of her features.
Summer knight
14
There was no gauntness to his cheeks.
Caliban's War
15
Although she was thin almost to the point of gauntness, Angela had always been pretty in her way.
Fear nothing
16
He had the gauntness, sallowness of complexion, and deliberateness of manner peculiar to the people of New England.
The Frozen Pirate
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