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The skin, taut across the bones, revealed the muscles beneath the matted grey hair on Ozil's chest; showed Ithier skeleton-thin from his courtly employments; showed Aiol, fifteen years old, like a statue in bronze.
SeeLight: 2008
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The skin, taut across the bones, revealed the muscles beneath the matted grey hair on Ozil's chest; showed Ithier skeleton-thin from his courtly employments; showed Aiol, fifteen years old, like a statue in bronze.
Reading Update 2008
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It takes many days before I venture inside it, for, skeleton-thin and blinded, Teddy has a monstrosity for a face.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It takes many days before I venture inside it, for, skeleton-thin and blinded, Teddy has a monstrosity for a face.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It takes many days before I venture inside it, for, skeleton-thin and blinded, Teddy has a monstrosity for a face.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The lab photographs of her skeleton-thin torso, taken at the murder site and after the autopsy, were in horrendous contrast.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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She was wearing a skimpy T-shirt, a denim miniskirt—none of it looked as if it had been washed or ironed—and these big furry boots that made her legs look skeleton-thin.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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It was her beauty that got to them all, yet it was almost impossible to block out the memory of the tragic, skeleton-thin victim lying on the gurney.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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I would never be as convincing a wraith or spirit as the skeleton-thin Michael Moresby, but with my skin whitened, my eyes outlined in black circles, and with purple hollows beneath my cheekbones, I looked dead enough.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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I would never be as convincing a wraith or spirit as the skeleton-thin Michael Moresby, but with my skin whitened, my eyes outlined in black circles, and with purple hollows beneath my cheekbones, I looked dead enough.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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