They were gaunt, hollow shadows of the men they had once been, so the fight proceeded slowly and clumsily.

Rarely eating, never sleeping for more than an hour at a time, Rinda had become a gaunt shadow of her former self.

The gaunt shadows of Band Society music stands and instrument cases stood around like sentinels.

As it was, he was a gaunt shadow of himself by the time they reached the Osage village several days later.

Then she stopped breathing, as the rickety wooden door was pulled open from the outside and a gaunt shadow filled the entrance.

High above it, like a gaunt shadow, stretched the shore span of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Then he fell ill, wasting away over 22 excruciating days from a muscular, almost boyish figure to a gaunt shadow.

Some of the gaunt shadows had smoothed away, and he had been in the sun again.

Then she saw a tall, gaunt shadow leaning against the opposite wall.

"Who is this gaunt shadow of a dead scorpion?"