sharp-boned

• “At that moment, she wanted nothing more in the world than to slap him right across that sharp-boned face of his.”

  Simon & Schuster: Personal Demons

• “The face gazing down at hers was narrow, sharp-boned, leached of all color, his eyes black and his hair so white he looked like a photograph in negative.”

  Simon & Schuster: City of Ashes

• “He was a tall boy with a skinny build, a mass of bark brown hair worn in a waving tangle around a sharp-boned face.”

  Blood Brothers

• “His cheeks were sharp-boned and sunken; his hair, which had always been white, had thinned to a few feathery wisps.”

  Lifeguard

• “And now, this worn and sharp-boned middle-aged woman with breast implants and a whiskey-cigarette voice.”

  A Winter Haunting

• “Such as the bitter unmarried woman I once cared for, a sharp-boned thinness to her, her eyeliner perpetually smeared, the spike heels she wore in with her maternity jeans tossed into her clothes locker, a distance between her baby and her even when she held him close.”

  Simon & Schuster: Never Change

• “A sharp-boned young woman arrived with disciE, lined hair and a power-dressing grey suit with a bright 'Juliard' rosette pinned to one shoulder.”

  Penalty

• “Go on," he added as Le hesitated, her instincts to help warring with a lifetime of discipline in her sharp-boned face.”

  The Silent Tower

• “His court breeches and silk stockings betrayed ageing, sharp-boned legs, and the shoulders beneath his long-skirted velvet coat were bent and weak.”

  The Fashion in Shrouds

• “DUST was piled in thick, velvety folds on the weeds and grass of the open Kansas prairie; it lay, a thin veil on the scrawny black horses and the sharp-boned cow picketed near a covered wagon; it showered to the ground in little clouds as Mrs. Wade, a tall, spare woman, moved about a camp-fire, preparing supper in a sizzling skillet, huge iron kettle and blackened coffee-pot.”

  Dust

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