gauntly

I could have wished he had been less obliged to me, for he hovered about me in his gratitude all the rest of the evening; and whenever I said a word to Agnes, was sure, with his shadowless eyes and cadaverous face, to be looking gauntly down upon us from behind.

David Copperfield 2007

Without consulting Mr. Vholes on this point, I took my guardian aside to propose it, while Mr. Vholes gauntly stalked to the fire and warmed his funeral gloves.

Bleak House 2007

The tall silken-clad form lifted erect, and towered gauntly above the Cimmerian.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

An idle building machine, with lank arms of red painted metal that caught the still plastic blocks of mineral paste and swung them neatly into position, stretched gauntly across this green tinted picture.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

Her obstetrician, Dr. Ashley, gauntly handsome in a Lord Mountbatten sort of way, with fine sand-colored hair swept back from his temples, arrives to examine her progress.

Excerpt: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 2003

A thin, subdued Alec lay stretched out in the tub; his long body shone naked and gauntly white beneath the water.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

A thin, subdued Alec lay stretched out in the tub; his long body shone naked and gauntly white beneath the water.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

A thin, subdued Alec lay stretched out in the tub; his long body shone naked and gauntly white beneath the water.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

A thin, subdued Alec lay stretched out in the tub; his long body shone naked and gauntly white beneath the water.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

A thin, subdued Alec lay stretched out in the tub; his long body shone naked and gauntly white beneath the water.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004