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  • The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks.
  • With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building.
  • His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
  • He was grey and gaunt and we both cried. Times, Sunday Times
  • D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
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  • The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
  • No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s next for the Obama Administration?
  • That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom. Chapter 13
  • a race of long gaunt men
  • In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
  • The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
  • The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need. Finnegans Wake
  • the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
  • Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning.
  • With a boat, however, electricity is routed through a gauntlet of adapters and shore power connections that depend on friction to maintain contact.
  • Fortunately there's a six-game home stand stuck in the middle of the March gauntlet that makes those two weeks tolerable.
  • He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
  • He was gaunt and extremely pale, with parched lips and a beak-like nose.
  • There were the black, the white, the brindle, the grey and the grisly, the rough and the smooth, the crop-eared and the lop-eared, the gaunt and the grim.
  • Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.
  • Inmates at Buckley Hall Prison have to run a gauntlet of insults and racism from some members of staff.
  • She flexed her wrists, feeling the leather gauntlets stretch and slide along her forearms.
  • Concentrating on defending herself, S'aturinni bought the Major enough time to mumble slightly different syllables, his gemmed gauntlets flashing red this time as a volley of prismatic darts materialised.
  • This guy had thrown down the gauntlet, and it was a bloody t-shirt with Snark emblazed across it. Archive 2006-04-02
  • For the rest, I recall a gaunt Baptist in wood, said to be by Donatello, on one of the altars to the left of the choir; and the bronze Baptist in the Baptistery, less realistic, by Sansovino; the pretty figures of A Wanderer in Venice
  • Pedestrians took their lives in their hands running the tree-lined gauntlet, forced to scramble up steep bankings if two vehicles met on the narrow stretch.
  • Gaunt, filthy, and weak, Corrie made her way to the railway station and boarded a train for a three-day journey home to Holland.
  • His tall, gaunt, black-robed form was bent over the center of the circle, absorbed in something that only he could see.
  • Its twisted trunk and mangled branches resembled a terrifyingly gaunt person arching their back in immense agony.
  • Kaffir blankets haunted the refuse-heaps, and fought with gaunt dogs for picked bones and empty meat-tins, and were found dead not unseldom, after full meals of strange and dreadful things. The Dop Doctor
  • But to get into a university to pursue this path, she must first run the gauntlet known as "Gaokao," a grueling university entrance examination given every summer across the Asian nation.
  • He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
  • With movie stars and models getting more gaunt each year, many people go on diets to lose weight to make themselves look and feel better.
  • The guards in the towers stared in disbelief at the sight of fourscore Gauntlet Knights pounding toward them. The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
  • Seth lifted his hands before him, looking at the knobbiness of his fingers, the gaunt cords in his wrists. Archive 2004-07-01
  • The monolith brooded gaunt and silent above the sward which waved, green and untrampled, in the morning breeze. People of the Dark
  • I. Day, tall, and thin, and gaunt, with a hatchet face, who looked as if a squeak was his vocal limit, had Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
  • The newer ones may be concrete and 15 or 20 stories high - gaunt, ugly buildings on an inhuman scale.
  • He donned the mail breastplate and leggings, and put on a pair of steel gauntlets and boots.
  • Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer. Redgauntlet
  • Yet it nonetheless felt like a gauntlet was being thrown down to the rest of the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Henrietta is wearing a matt white helmet, a silk scarf wound tightly round her face and heavy leather gauntlets.
  • Then I just noticed how skinny he was, almost gaunt.
  • So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad. Fiancée
  • What was once a very enjoyable walk ‘around the block’ has become a case of running the gauntlet for those who still walk this particular route.
  • He was gaunt and serious from the start, with minimal hand movements and only slightly gesticulating as he dipped into domestic policy issues.
  • If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a precaution, I had scented toilet paper stuffed up my nose, but the bouquet still came on like a rotten gauntlet across the snout.
  • The gauntlet on the glove was to cover up the aluminum, so it wouldn't heat up in the light.
  • He was slightly built, almost gaunt, and appeared to be aged somewhere between thirty and forty years.
  • Not the cadent rattle of the thin cylindrical drums the Trivigauntis used, but the steady _thumpa-thumpa-thump_ of Vironese war drums, drums that suggested the palaestra's big copper stew-pot whenever she saw them, war drums beating out the quickstep used to draw up troops in order of battle. Exodus From The Long Sun
  • Some knights were cited as wearing mail gloves under their plated gauntlets for added strength.
  • He does not, it must be said, match one's idea of a funeral director, being neither gaunt nor sepulchral.
  • On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light.
  • Brunt picked up the gauntlet thrown down by his captain. The Sun
  • She's tall and gaunt, her face pale and contorted. Times, Sunday Times
  • John of Gaunt entered five groups in this year's regional festival including its wind band, low brass ensemble and trombone octet.
  • Of course, she wasn't stupid - the rough engineer had worn protective gauntlets to shield her hands from the impact of the armor.
  • The trucks tried to drive to the British base, running the gauntlet of marauding bands of gunmen.
  • You can also take off those spats and gauntlets.
  • We had lived on the grund, and under the Redgauntlets, since the riding days, and lang before. Redgauntlet
  • During the smoking recess, a gaunt, hollow-cheeked woman says she's been coming to the Hawaiian Gardens Bingo Club for years, spending up to $3,000 a month.
  • I'll admit that I was more than a little jumpy as I made my way through this gauntlet of jimsonweed and Huggies, but as I grew closer and began to make out the outline of the bunker's entrance, I heard music, faintly at first, but growing louder with each footstep until I finally recognized it as ABBA's Waterloo. Live blogging for Lieberman or how Bill Kristol saved my life
  • Redgauntlet led them through one or two passages (for the house, as we have before said, was very irregular, and built at different times) until they entered an apartment, where a man with shouldered carabine kept watch at the door, but readily turned the key for their reception. Redgauntlet
  • Must the consultant run a long gauntlet of interviews, just to test his or her credibility.
  • He grunted, slung his helmet from a strap on the saddle, and began to pull off his gauntlets. A TIME OF WAR
  • But once outside its confines, he will be struggling - he will inevitably have to run the gauntlet of an adoring public wanting autographs by the hundred.
  • He was gaunt from drinking too much vodka and his marriage was on the skids.
  • Once or twice a day Patches and I passed a lone cowboy on a gaunt horse, or a wagonful of Mexicans. Half Broke Horses
  • Walking down the corridors of Pittodrie Stadium is like running a gauntlet of mirth and merriment.
  • She was oblivious to the gaunt diminutive figure that stared back at her; just over five feet.
  • Among the most confrontational figures were ultraconservative scholars, who occasionally threw down the gauntlet in public and denounced colleagues for lax or improper observance of the faith.
  • Staggering home under the appalled stares of passers-by, a bloodied Mehmet walks a gauntlet of seething furnaces, grinding pistons and an incessant, infernal hammering.
  • It is not for the faint-hearted, for it throws down a gauntlet to walkers seeking an outing that is rather more challenging than a mere walk.
  • Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.
  • Smokes came down after a time, looking gaunt and dishevelled. DESPERADOES
  • A long silver metal double-edged sword with an angel on the handle-top and a cross on the handle-bottom of the golden sword handle is fastened onto his belt and he has black gauntlets with a sliver band in the middle on both of his wrist.
  • Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
  • In Ep2 it's the final part of the turret vs. antlion battle when the Vortigaunts show up. Archive 2007-10-01
  • The FSA should pick up the gauntlet and come up with a solution. Times, Sunday Times
  • The company's spring meeting was the occasion for the shareholders to pre-empt the governing board by throwing down the gauntlet on finance and management of services.
  • Women politicians often run the gauntlet, from contempt to overt harassment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Logan Mader, Adam Duce, Paul Gray, and Robb Flynn talk about learning other people's songs along with footage of Matt Heafy and Tim Williams singing Machine Head's "Davidian" in this Gauntlet exclusive. TheGauntlet.com
  • The men carrying the stretchers were gaunt and loose limbed. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
  • a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
  • It seemed a gauntlet thrown down to the modern world. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
  • But onlookers said that he appeared gaunt and thin. Times, Sunday Times
  • She brought choice cuts of meat to the porter's dog, and ordered full meals for the gaunt nuns who came to collect alms at awkward hours of the day.
  • Ruth looked away in panic then braved herself to look back but the gaunt, pinched face had gone.
  • He also looks worryingly gaunt and grey in the face. The Sun
  • Its large oaken slab was of sufficient dimensions to admit of the royal gift being spread in graceful folds over the dark surface of the wood, which the better displayed the tissue's interchanging tints, and also gave room for the disposal of the cap and gloves which were placed in a kind of armorial crest between its gauntlets, at the head of the scarf, and at its foot was added a beautifully written inscription in old emblazoned characters, historic of the interesting relics above. The Scottish Chiefs
  • Because he squirmed in protest as she tried to remove his gilded, gemmed gauntlets, she had to leave them on.
  • The light from outside the table cast an odd glare on his face, making his face look gaunt.
  • took up the gauntlet
  • Once they were done, Katie moved to an odd looking Star, a look I can only describe as "obesely gaunt", who explained that she wouldn't do a group interview with Joan because they "have different styles. Archive 2005-01-01
  • Both men are in complete armor; the duke's helmet and gauntlets lie at his sides, while Saint George, a dragon coiled around his legs, removes his helmet with his right hand.
  • She has thrown down the gauntlet to the newspaper by accusing it of libel.
  • Ching has become old and gaunt, but he is still an honest man who faithfully serves Wang Lung.
  • Their necromantic forms in vain Haunt us on the tented plain; We bid these spectre shapes avaunt, Ashtaroth and Termagaunt. The Talisman
  • Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Vanity Fair
  • He wore a skin tight black muscle shirt, thick black jean pants, and gauntlets with open fingers.
  • She picked up the gauntlet in her incisive Keynote Address to the Conference.
  • The very fact the woman had to run the gauntlet of traffic and pigeons messing on her is proof alone she is not experiencing a level playing field.
  • She was achingly gaunt, her skin pasty white, the lines of her face stark and startling in their prominence.
  • Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis.
  • Ms. McAndrew is used to doing business with hikers down from the trail who arrive in town with gaunt faces, mud-stained boots and unshorn locks.
  • Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court: and now has he land and beefs. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • As he went back to where the Percys were, four men wearing rubber gauntlets came carrying large aluminum cans.
  • The TV investigation, Running The Gauntlet, is being broadcast in two parts tonight and next week in the West Country.
  • Even at the age of 42, the outlines of an athlete are plainly visible in the leanness of his frame, the gaunt sharpness of his features and the languid flow of his movement.
  • He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
  • With steroids, testosterone or beta blockers you have to run the gauntlet of the drugs testers at any moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • For ten stages, the 32-year-old French rider riveted his country by sitting atop the race, defending the maillot jaune with a grit that recalled gaunt-cheeked, vintage champions. A Tour That Was Hard to Ignore
  • Pedestrians took their lives in their hands running the tree-lined gauntlet, forced to scramble up steep bankings if two vehicles met on the narrow stretch.
  • His new gaunt face caused a much wider public to worry about his health. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had a drawn, gaunt face with a pair of extremely deep-set eyes.
  • There are few in the world who would not recognise his bony, bearded face and gaunt frame. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was thin and gaunt, with an odious pinched white face and fierce big black bushy eyebrows.
  • A good example of a dialect word is _gantry_ or _gauntree_, a wooden stand for barrels, known in varying forms in many dialects. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
  • More than 80,000 fans filled the big, gaunt ground.
  • And then having to run the gauntlet of a vegan protest. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the way down the broken slope to Jugdulluk the little column trudged through the gauntlet of jezail fire which lined the road with dead and wounded. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
  • Now he is so thin he looks almost gaunt.
  • Visit any office building over four stories in height and you're likely to run a gauntlet of inquisitors.
  • We are throwing down the gauntlet: Who is the next queen of Wife Swap?
  • Henry's gaunt figure came into the rim of light cast by the desk lamp.
  • And yet -- What if Gaunt did not quite appreciate his girl, see how deep-hearted she was, how heartsome a thing to look at even when she was asleep? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
  • He hastily straightened his gleaming bronze cuirass and cuisse, settled his sword sheath and gauntlets more comfortably upon his belt, and entered the audience hall.
  • Luxury car firm Jaguar has thrown down the gauntlet to competitors by giving the best guarantee on the market.
  • gestured with his gauntleted hand
  • Who that calls himself a man will sit with folded arms and careless mien, under the shade of the tree of liberty, while the wild boar is whetting his tusks against its bark, and the gaunt stag rudely tears its branches? Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
  • After a day of taking 'psychometric' tests in relation to job applications, I have decided to through down the gauntlet and discover whom here is the ultimate Geek Discussion Forum - Geeks!
  • The news explains the worrying pictures of her looking gaunt. The Sun
  • He was also gaunt and cadaverous, and as dark as the Semitic people of the Holy Land.
  • The Jesuits, for example, place abuser priests in Jesuit communities away from schools and parishes, where they typically cannot leave without another priest, said the Rev. Thomas Gaunt, executive secretary of the Jesuit Conference, the order's U.S. office. Abusive priests: To defrock or not? U.S. Catholics debate
  • Balding, gray-haired, just five feet eight in his stocking feet, he had what one journalist called the gaunt demeanor of a church elder. In the Shadow of the Oval Office
  • Free Cable* TV cubbyhole boss cytology b's bracket nation gauntlet chairperson trustworthy hendrick praise pubescent bookbind aflame archival resolution laminate dehumidify centrex christoffel inflict autocracy stupid minion bravo consecrate clutter middleweight version bash dogwood lavabo term beechwood chaparral poseur begetting deviate margaret caliphate obstinacy chablis bestirring bevel abstain aberdeen cavil audiotape scurrilous rupture tomb schelling slug loudspeaker tame barnhard rotten chatty barbudo cyanide bach bethlehem redstone Catpewk Diary Entry
  • He laid the blanket on the back of the gaunt dun, moving his mouth - talking?
  • The Imperial insignia was printed on the left shoulder pad and the right gauntlet.
  • This Pastor was an older, gaunter man; his face was ashen and he seemed very weary, having been worn down by the endless petitions of the last few days.
  • We ran the gauntlet of samba musicians and sega dancers.
  • Exceedingly tall and gaunt with a long, prognathous jaw, he never took his eyes from me as he went over to an accordion wilted across a stool.
  • “You’m right, captain,” sang out a tall gaunt fellow who stood close to him; “one westcountry-man can fight two easterlings, and an easterling can beat three Dons any day. Westward Ho!
  • A calcium ion has to run the gauntlet of many, many molecules before it reaches a binding site.
  • The non-skid Thermal Foot Gauntlet is designed to relieve pain associated with diabetes, arthritis, and Raynaud's disease.
  • The navy board was the last in a gauntlet of oral exams.
  • He looked "gaunt," Paola said, unshaven and much thinner than the Maziar she knows. Waiting for Maziar
  • But to get into a university to pursue this path, she must first run the gauntlet known as "Gaokao," a grueling university entrance examination given every summer across the Asian nation.
  • You'm right, captain," sang out a tall gaunt fellow who stood close to him; "one westcountry-man can fight two easterlings, and an easterling can beat three Dons any day. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
  • He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
  • The tall buildings flickered with a glow of white, gaunt towers rising like obelisks in the night thrusting towards a heaven that would forever elude them.
  • My father astonished me by putting out his hand to the priest, admittedly a hard hand coarsened by digging, and Fr Gaunt astonished me by immediately flicking the ash into the offered hand, which perhaps flinched tinily for a moment when the heat hit it. Asylum
  • How lang Steenie lay there, he could not tell; but when he came to himsell, he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight, Sir Redgauntlet
  • Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony, including Wally Fuentes Morrison, and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet.
  • Coward took the title of This Happy Breed from John of Gaunt's speech about the sceptred isle that's our one in Richard II. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review
  • The moon had finally moved far enough over the high walls of the pass to cast some of its gaunt white light down into the narrows below.
  • They ran the gauntlet of the voter as well as the judges and won out and for people to start slagging them off is a bit rich.
  • Talk about throwing down the gauntlet. Times, Sunday Times
  • We're accustomed to facing a gauntlet of hucksters when we sit in front of a TV set.
  • The other offender has been described as of mixed race, possibly Asian, 5ft 8ins tall, with a slim build and gaunt features.
  • Her leather gauntlets were always a part of her attire, as falcon handling was one of her favorite hobbies.
  • They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
  • Poor Puttel, after gazing wistfully out of the window at the gaunt city cats skulking about the yard, would retire to the rug, and curl herself up as if all hope of finding congenial society had failed; while little Nick would sing till he vibrated on his perch, without receiving any response except an inquisitive chirp from the pert sparrows, who seemed to twit him with his captivity. An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • Audience members told of their shock at his gaunt appearance. The Sun
  • Her hair was hidden beneath a bandanna and she wore a cloth vest, jean shorts and black, fingerless gauntlets.
  • The final story in the book, John Langan's "Technicolor," is another tour de force, and makes me very eager to read Langan's new collection from Prime, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. REVIEW: Poe edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Brother Cadfael was standing in the middle of his walled herb-garden, looking pensively about him at the autumnal visage of his pleasance, where all things grew gaunt, wiry and sombre. A River So Long
  • Lilias Redgauntlet withdrew the mask from her crimsoned cheek. Redgauntlet
  • In a sense the gauntlet has been thrown down. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Prime Minister was thus throwing down the gauntlet to his internal critics. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gaunt-faced man smiled to himself; he gnawed on a toothpick as the rolling country north of the river opened up before him.
  • On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light.
  • Taking his privilege as a dying man and the king's uncle, Gaunt remonstrates with him, calling him England's landlord rather than her king.
  • And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the Gandiva as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from Kamyaka) with the objects of beholding Indra. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • Lieutenant "Cush" Jones determined to run the gauntlet for escape, and as he darted away the point of his scabbard struck a stone, and throwing it inverted above his head, lost out his handsome sword. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
  • Even with the new road layout you are still running the gauntlet of traffic travelling fast up and down that road.
  • So it might be more a matter of identifying the particular kinds of unfavourable adjective that are most prone to subsequent reconsideration - "unlistenable" certainly springs to mind, perhaps because the gauntlet it throws down is so easy to pick up - and learning to keep an eye out for them. The Guardian World News
  • They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
  • One cannot fail to be thrilled by the cragginess and gaunt loftiness of such a reading that is enshrined in the history of recordings.
  • His eyes were bloodshot, and his face, all begrimed with smoke and gunpowder, wore an expression haggard, gaunt, and very weary. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • He was garbed in a laced-up green tunic, gauntlets, spats, and khaki pants with large stitches up the front and back seams.
  • Her soft fleshy limbs are gaunt and thin. Christianity Today
  • Using the different shades of the turquoise cabochons as my color guide, the gauntlet was thrown.
  • He was also suffering from the flu, which made him appear gaunt and ill. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
  • A red kite was right in front of me in a gaunt old ash tree; it was a raptor of considerable size, with mottled brown and rufous plumage and a distinctive forked tail. Country diary: East Yorkshire
  • They stared on the next occasion of meeting, when Bloundell spoke in contemptuous terms of old Pen; said everybody knew old Pen, regular old trencherman at Gaunt The History of Pendennis
  • His pelt, when dyed, is made into gauntlets of the cheaper kind. Janey Canuck in the West
  • It must still run a gauntlet of periwinkles, oyster drills, and mud and basket snails, most of which leave egg masses that cover any undeveloped real estate on the shell.
  • We were all assembled round him when the door opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.
  • In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
  • The priest's gaunt figure dissolved into the shadows beyond the kitchen door.
  • The door opened to reveal a gaunt, clean-shaven man.
  • She was sitting up in bed, her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers.
  • 84 Pikes: A powerful, toothed fish, of gaunt build ( "lank"), found in streams, lakes and moats, noted for its cannibalism. The Beggar's Opera
  • Aerobraking would both require an out-of-plane orbit to keep from running the gauntlet of the ring particles for millions of km every orbit and, once the apoapsis was lowered to the distance of the rings, leave the craft moving far slower than the orbital speed of the rings. Huygens landing video - The Panda's Thumb
  • Whoever decides to take up the gauntlet and challenge the Prime Minister will have a tough battle.
  • Somehow his boniness and gauntness extends to his personality.
  • The suspect driving the vehicle was described as a gaunt, white male, with salt and pepper colored hair, approximately 50 years of age and had a deep pock mark scar on his left cheek. Carthage Press Homepage RSS
  • Gaunt's appointment led to a breach, from which Northumberland emerged as sole warden in both marches in 1384, after which either he or his son usually held one of the wardenships.

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