| The soldier was dark-haired and thin almost to the point of gauntness, with pale cheeks. |
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| He cocked his head and looked down at her, noting for the first time the shadows beneath her eyes, the gauntness of her cheeks. |
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| On those occasions when we see him without a shirt, the almost-skeletal gauntness of his frame is apparent. |
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| Somehow his boniness and gauntness extends to his personality. |
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| He looked up as we approached and I was momentarily shocked by the gauntness, the almost metallic grayness that dusted what had once been a tawny coat. |
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| His face is thin nearly to gauntness, and covered with sad lines. |
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| Such archness is kind of reassuring, especially given Vivian's gallows gauntness and pallor. |
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| The gauntness, the waves of intensity, the smarting humor: they all made sense, as if his duty, wherever he trod, were to spread a little Hamletry. |
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| Reduced by the ship's food to gauntness, writer is overjoyed when the ship finally arrives at Penang, a stone's throw from Singapore, their destination. |
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| She pulled his body to hers and devoured his lips, his neck, the gauntness of his being, as if time was going too fast and the world's end was in sight. |
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