Nowadays the emphasis was on trim, slim, svelte, bony feminine figures, and he'd about given up the hope of finding one that would be so enticing to him.

Through the tumbling snow, a few yards away from the derelict tank, I saw a small bony figure, white in the darkness, not much taller than a child of five, and it seemed to be hopping or running.

Those bony figures, those monochrome scenes of reaping and sowing in the gloomy fields feel sacramental: a gospel of sorrow and humility inscribed in cross-hatched ink.

Presently he returned with a little bony figure in prison dress.

But the earliest, from 1933, is a small Crucifixion whose bony figure derived from Surrealism presages Bacon's patented distortion of the human body.

A hammock heaved and disgorged the bony figure of the ex-miner.

Ravenna looked at the bony figure, scanning the lean, angular face and the shining black hair.

Arthur looked and saw a tall, bony figure in white overalls struggling with a huge tin of paint.

Granny, a toothless, bony, hunchbacked figure, with short grey hair which was fluttering in the wind, was driving the geese out of the kitchen-garden with a long stick, shouting.

The tall, bony figure was disappearing into the darkness beyond the glow from the dying campfire.