His penances were so severe that his flesh, skin and muscles dried up and merged with his frame.

The spare flesh of her body had not dried yet, but her ravaged face was that of a being near death.

Their crops will turn to dust and their flesh will dry beneath a burning sun, but it will not be by your hand.

Slater lay on the bed, shivering once as his flesh dried.

There was no mistaking the long skull, from which the flesh had dried, or the horns.

The chill he had been feeling ebbed away as he drank, his flesh drying in the warm sun, his breeches remaining damp.

Even as he lifted his leg from the fluid the flesh was drying, crumbling, the muscles and bone sloughing away in layers of purple and white.

The spring lambs were killed, and their flesh salted for the cellars or dried in the pure mountain air.

The flesh on its huge torso had dried, shrunk, and split until it clung in tatters to naked ribs.

Sealed in the dry air of the cave, the bones had endured, though flesh had long since dried to dust.