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Meanings of gauntness in inglês

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

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Examples for "emaciation"
Examples for "emaciation"
1
His body was thin and fine and tight, with a healthy emaciation.
Perdido Street Station
2
She's thin almost to the point of emaciation, and pale as milk.
End of Watch
3
Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
4
This man appeared in tolerable health as to body, his emaciation excepted.
American Prisoners of the Revolution
5
Hard to tell, due to his bruises and emaciation under the rags.
Changer of Worlds
1
We obtained them in enormous abundance in a maceration of fish.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
2
For the production of the huile and pomade they are treated by maceration.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
3
A sinful mortal like thyself; but worn down with long vigils and maceration.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
4
This fleshly maceration is the symbolic preparation for the conversion he subsequently undergoes.
The Guardian
5
They are treated by maceration and enfleurage, chiefly the latter.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
1
The doctor felt the boniness of his own face and hands.
All souls' rising
2
They were an odd couple: Brutish, fat and carnal, Poor, a stick figure-thoughsturdy in her boniness-constantlygrubbing, ever fearful.
Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
3
"The food, my lord?" persisted the unlovely boniness that was Marilla Theron.
Watcher of the Dead
4
"You needn't worry over my boniness," she assured him cheerfully.
The Vision of Desire
Usage of gauntness in inglês
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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