The moorland ridges shone clear under the moon, now bare, or scantily plumed by gaunt trees, and now clothed in a dense blackness of wood.
The preacher, a battered-looking individual of between fifty and sixty years of age, was gaunt with recent sickness, patient and unimaginative in aspect.
Little good to wish that, O King," cried one gaunt old warrior.
And all the time we struggled a sea of faces waved to and fro, peering down at us from the gaunt trees above.
One singularly gauntand fantastic one appalled me.
In another seven years the housekeeper died, a gauntgrey ruin, and Anna at sixteen became mistress of the household, with a small sister to cherish and control.
They are reading physiology aloud, in the midst of the gaunt room, with very little in the way of blackboards or materials.
His hand, as gaunt as a skeleton's, assisted to alight a young woman whose brilliant blonde beauty, viewed for the first time in evening shadows, was like a shaft of sunlight in a darkened room.
But his confidence was so shaken, his morale so impaired by Lanyard's sublime effrontery added to his recent shocking experience, that the gaunt hands trembled beyond his control, and it was several seconds before he succeeded.
Looking round, she saw, to her horror, a troop of gaunt grey wolves issue from the forest and commence running after the sledge.
Mr. Avon listened, gaunt and grim, while Lord Fotheringay gracefully waved away statesman after statesman who had failed signally, by reason of taking Ireland and the Irish seriously.
Houses climb right to the crests of gaunt bare peaks; and the brown mediæval walls with square towers which protected them upon the mountain side, following the inequalities of the ground, are still a marked feature in the landscape.
Slowly and toilsomely we ascended between the flanks of barren hills--gaunt masses of crimson and grey crag, clothed at their summits with short turf and scanty pasture.
George Talboys saw his bearded face and tall, gaunt figure reflected in the glass, and wondered to see how out of place he seemed among all these womanly luxuries.
The gaunt gateway was lighted by an enormous lamp; a great structure of iron and glass, in which one poor little shivering flame struggled with the March wind.
There were very few people going to travel by this midnight train, and Robert walked up and down the long wooden platform, reading the huge advertisements whose gaunt lettering looked wan and ghastly in the dim lamplight.
They could be seen plainly--tall, gaunt men with excited faces running with long strides toward a wandering fence.
It seemed, then, that there was bitter justice in the speeches of the gaunt and bronzed veterans.
As they approached their own lines there was some sarcasm exhibited on the part of a gaunt and bronzed regiment that lay resting in the shade of the trees.
A tall gaunt young man was standing and shaking the water from his jacket, but just then an order was issued for all those who had been rescued from the boat to muster aft.
Before them squatted five great, gaunt wolves intent upon fresh beef for their supper.
Then appeared the Countess, tall, gaunt and muscular, with sallow skin and a nervous manner.
Gaunt forms grew up straight among the undergrowth of trees, indifferent to the other pistol, and ran back or over to where the wounded comrade lay.
Steep banks rose from the riverside and lost themselves in a haze of frost, through which, more eminent, stood the boles and giant members of vast gaunt trees, their upper branches fretting the starry sky.
It was a mile farther on that they found the madam, stark naked, her gaunt face turned to the sky.
Her face was gaunt and brown: thin lips, long thin nose, gray eyes set deep, iron gray hair straggling over her forehead from under a dusty pink sunbonnet.
He was a big man, gaunt and bony, with a mighty pair of shoulders topped by a square, massive head on which bristled a veritable shock of coarse, yellow hair.
The gaunt spectre of the hungry wilderness vanished before the kindly presence of a great Companionship that made even the unknown West seem safe and familiar as one's own home.
He held out his hand as he spoke, and Shock saw that not only the hand, but the whole arm, indeed the whole gaunt frame of the doctor, was all in a tremble.
Gaunt vision, who art thou That thus, with icy glare And stern relentless brow, Appearest, who knows how?
He can raise you hosts Of ghosts, And that without reflectors; And creepy things With wings, And gaunt and grisly spectres.
The distinctions of pride and rank sink into nought, when the mind is engaged in the contemplation of the inevitable consequences of the assaults of the gaunt enemies, cold and hunger.
The cortege had just passed the last gaunt eucalyptus-tree and turned out upon the public highway when it was halted.
Bereft of his sympathetic presence the room seemed overpowering in its gaunt emptiness.
There she found, idly waiting beside the isolated building, surrounded by several gaunt staghounds, not one of the twins, but both.
The gaunt hound bounded over its body, then stopped short, bewildered, and eyed its fallen foe.
Here and there, like a measure of gold poured upon the ground, the yellow ears lay in the gaunt corn-rows, to become the ground meal of the slave and the cattle's winter substance.
John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head.
