Behind Kerim Shah filed a group of lean Irakzai on gaunt horses.
The figure was robed and hooded all in black, and it was astride a gaunt horse.
The article describes this creature: "He appears as a pale, gaunt horse with hazy black eyes.
The gaunt horses pulling them were coated with rime from their own breath.
A band of these sat gaunt horses in the black pit-mouth of a gorge as the hurrying hoofs swept past.
He was riding along a knife-edge trail, in the middle of a straggling line of some thirty men-ragged men on gaunt, ribby horses.
They sat their gaunt horses at the head of a long valley and saw, far back, white dots moving in the morning mists.
The bald man with the ginger hair twists in the saddle of his gaunt horse.
The heavy hooves of the gaunt horse clattered past him; he caught a glimpse of a small brand on the lean flank.
Laughing again, Laric spurred the gaunt horse.