gaunt-looking

When you get to heaven you might find Mary Frankenstein Shelley, God's favourite author, sitting on a throne, or discover that God is actually a married couple anxious to try out their parenting skills on newcomers, or that despite the permanent San Diego climate, some rather gaunt-looking archangels are sitting on street corners with begging bowls.

Philip Pullman, Mark's Gospel, Sum: Tales from the Afterlives and Richard Dawkins's Ancestor's Tale 2010

They were rather gaunt-looking, you know, but nothing really bad.

DBTL 51D: City of Shadows - Interlude Johnny Pez 2010

The gaunt-looking body in the bed took shallow breaths, and I was able to identify it as my body.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008

The gaunt-looking body in the bed took shallow breaths, and I was able to identify it as my body.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008

The neighbors always suspected that something shady was taking place inside the gaunt-looking couple's apartment on the 17th floor of a Manhattan co-op.

A Downward Spiral 2007

One woman who blogs as Newly Wed Wife writes, "I bet not many wives can match the resident evil that lurks behind that Atkins-inspired, gaunt-looking woman who wants me to call her mom."

MANAGING YOUR MIL 2007

Leaving her equipment and her detailed archaeological notes on the table, she went to the coffee bar attended by a gaunt-looking young man with a wispy goatee -- it was always a young man with a wispy goatee, no matter what universe she was in -- and stared at the variety of hot and cold drinks, caffeinated and decaffeinated, sweet and bitter.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

An insect of prey, about an inch in length, long-legged and gaunt-looking, may be observed flying about and lighting upon the bare ground.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Iwanich turned round, and saw a tall, gaunt-looking man, clad in miserable rags, leaning on a crooked staff and seated at the foot of an oak tree, which was so much the same colour as himself that it was little wonder the Prince had ridden past the tree without noticing him.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

Tilly greatly altered since the death of her child; in many ways but a shadow of her former self; gaunt-looking and lean, where she had once been round and comfortable.

The End of a Childhood 2003