The rail-thin man with the greenish skin seemed particularly unusual.

He was a rail-thin elderly man with a long white beard and thick shoulder-length hair combed back off his forehead.

Often I was served by rail-thin old men or women in fraying sarongs who subsisted on a few dollars a week.

A rail-thin and bearded man stood on a wooden porch in the shade of a signboard so faded that Anna couldn't make out the letters.

At the altar a tall, rail-thin man dressed in black moved around, arranging cloths and candelabra.

A dapper, rail-thin man, he made shyness seem like good manners, although he appeared rarely to miss anything that was going on.

A rail-thin man waited by the central structure, under a peeling sign bearing a line drawing of a cup.

A rail-thin young man with a voice that cracked when he was excited, Mr. Gates had just turned 20.

An intense, rail-thin man with a prescient eye and a gift for brilliant conversation, Stein had moved to Paris in 1903.

Late afternoon now, and on her fourth procedure of the day: a rail-thin man with lung rot.