His several phases of life all became older, until he was a middle-aged man in spring, and a gaunt skeleton of a man in winter.

A gaunt skeleton of the man he had been.

On both sides of the wide street you could see, through the fog, that the houses were mere facades, the buildings but gaunt skeletons.

The camp was ugly, lonely, and dominated by the gaunt skeleton of a drill rig set up in its midst.

Once handsome as a laughing young god, he was now a gaunt, sunblackened skeleton.

Gingivere was fading into a gaunt skeleton.

From this arose die twisted, gaunt gray skeletons of dead oaks.

Callaslough spotted them first as they came off Badblood, bouncing down a gravelly wash under the gaunt, nest-and-vine-draped skeletons of power pylons.

A couple of new towers going up in Back Bay, their gaunt skeletons outlined against the dusk.

Naltecona now addressed a gaunt skeleton of a man.