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Example sentences for "emaciated"

Lexicographically close words:
elves; elvish; elytra; emaciate; emaciation; emalangeni; eman; emanate; emanated
  1. His big head swayed upon his thin neck; his droll, though emaciated features constantly changed their expression, and even when he was not coughing, his mouth was continually in motion.

  2. From this time, I laboured night and day in contriving my escape till I effected it; and travelled the five and twenty miles with such speed in my emaciated state that I had no sooner thrown myself into Arabella's arms than I fell into fits.

  3. All who call themselves my friends: for, with this emaciated form, and mere emaciated mind, am I coming to London.

  4. His handsome face, emaciated and pale, was that of the immortal Bonaparte.

  5. What tears must have rolled down that poor emaciated face!

  6. Enfeebled and emaciated as the young girl is, her sense of duty never deserts her, and although her torn and bedraggled garments float dejectedly about her body, she never utters a word of complaint, and never loses courage.

  7. I gave her the melancholy promise, which she acknowledged by pressing my hand feebly with her emaciated fingers.

  8. He was astounded: though livid and exhausted, with emaciated features and eyes blazing with fever, Hortense was trying to smile.

  9. And each time, not far from the woman, who was firmly bound, her face covered with blood and her body emaciated by lack of food, the marks of carriage-wheels proved that the corpse had been driven to the spot.

  10. When I saw him again in New York, a year or so later, on his return, he was an emaciated fever-wreck, placing one foot before the other only with much exertion and indeed barely able to hold himself erect.

  11. Loose leaves and branches were scattered over the little emaciated body, care being taken not to conceal any of the fancy silk ribbons.

  12. Moleskin ruefully, looking at his own bare toes peeping through the ragged leather of his emaciated uppers.

  13. Sandy stopped with us for a long while and it was pitiful to see him labouring there, his old bones creaking with every move of his emaciated body, and the cold sweat running off him all day.

  14. You haven't a particle of feeling, or you would be emaciated by this time.

  15. Almost as his hand touches the cab the driver receives his orders, whips up his emaciated charger, and disappears down the street.

  16. Philip--who has grown almost emaciated during these past months--is the only one who wears successfully an impression of the most stolid indifference.

  17. Although I was but thirteen years old, she was so emaciated that I could carry her with considerable ease.

  18. His face was haggard and hollow, He was crowned with green thorns, and His emaciated body was spotted all over by the ends of the scourges as if the wounds were flea-bites.

  19. What mastery we discern in that hollow, emaciated face, as expressive as the others are dull.

  20. I remember its emaciated visage streaked and crossed with wrinkles that the snow had put there in a night; but never have I seen it insipid or commonplace.

  21. Something fine in a couple of hundred "emaciated ship-mates" drove them on to triumph through every possible disadvantage.

  22. The patient became emaciated and died thirteen days after his admission into the hospital.

  23. From this time on he became progressively emaciated until his death, twelve months after Wadham first saw him.

  24. On the third table lay a shape skeletonlike in appearance, so emaciated was it, so closely did the bones press into the dry, fever-yellowed skin.

  25. He beckoned them, and extended his emaciated white hand.

  26. Suddenly, the emaciated hand was removed, and the face turned slowly round toward Johannes.

  27. Besides these there were meagre, emaciated forms with white hair that reflected blue in the feeble light; and little children with large heads and aged, wizened faces.

  28. With the same glance he saw mediaeval prints of saints in ecstasy, and plaster casts of wanton women, and the heads of emaciated monks.

  29. Before them stood Ygberg, as pale and emaciated as ever.

  30. He looked up and started: before him stood Ygberg, pale as a corpse, emaciated and looking at him with those peculiarly washed out eyes which only starvation produces.

  31. His sister stared at him, amazed at the change in him--the animation, the rush of colour in the hollow, emaciated face.

  32. He looked sadly down at Marion, and saw that wondrous smile again upon her emaciated face.

  33. If they tried lying closely side by side with their blankets spread over them, the cold crept under the coverings, and bit through their garments into their emaciated limbs.

  34. She uttered a thin, little cry, and slipped to the floor on her knees, clasping his emaciated hand that lay on an arm of the chair.

  35. His right heel lay on the forehead of a young man, emaciated to the last degree, his chest thrown up as he lay, and his ribs showing like a skeleton covered with skin.

  36. We walked on to the cathedral, followed by a troop of literally naked beggars, baked black in the sun, and more emaciated and diseased than any I have yet seen abroad.

  37. One sabbath afternoon, one of my children was sitting in the door, when a tall, emaciated Indian came up and said, "Will my little lady please to give me a drink of water?

  38. If we was to shut 'em in a dark cellar, they'd flop after imaginary grasshoppers in their dreams, and die emaciated in the midst of plenty.

  39. The surgeon who had examined it after death said that it was emaciated as if from want of nourishment, and the body was covered with livid bruises.

  40. She stood close to him--he did not offer to kiss her, but he laid one emaciated hand on her shoulder and looked earnestly into her face.

  41. His face was very pale and more emaciated looking than ever--his eyes were bright, and had sunk into his head.


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