(a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

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• So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• The ladies of Gaunt House called Lady Bareacres in to their aid, in order to repulse the common enemy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• It was a very tall gaunt captain of artillery with a red scar along his jaw. 歐內斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
• Her thinness seemed to be the effect of some wasting fire within her, which found a vent in her gaunt eyes. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• With sunken cheek and hollow eyes, pale and gaunt, how could I recognize the beloved of Perdita? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• His wife and family returned to this country and took up their abode at Gaunt House. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• She patronized Lady Gaunt and her astonished and mortified sister-in-law--she ecrased all rival charmers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Life-like sounds bring life-like feelings: this shape was too round and low for my gaunt nun: it was only Madame Beck on duty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• The Bishopess of Ealing was shocked beyond expression; the Bishop went and wrote his name down in the visiting-book at Gaunt House that very day. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Severe, spotless, and beautiful, Lady Gaunt held the very highest rank in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• We were all assembled round him when the door opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• Lady Gaunt writes them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• With a motherly tenderness the gaunt woman put her arm round her mistress and led her from the room. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• It was only her delight at going to Gaunt House and facing the ladies there, she said, which amused her so. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.

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