boniness

There had been enough light for Rod to see the boniness of the hand.

Maybe Joli would do better if she did not show off her boniness?

I held her hand close to my heart, feeling the boniness of her fingers.

And every one of them was inclined to boniness.

Cal was thin to the point of boniness.

Her face had also filled out a bit, taking away the slight boniness he'd sometimes perceived in her features.

The skinning back of the hair served to emphasize the boniness of her face.

His hair was the colour of lint and he had the endearing boniness of all small boys.

The same fine boniness that your cheeks have.'

Her face was thin to the point of boniness, but it was of an aristocratic cast.

"He seems pretty healthy, but he chooses his clothes to conceal his boniness."

Her angular boniness had softened, even as her face lost its last traces of girlhood.

The boniness of a dignified dowitcher is captured in the smooth modeling of its small skull.

No hint of boniness, nor of fleshiness.

Her face was normally gaunt and austere, but he was shocked at the boniness of her arm.

She was still slender; she had the nervous, energetic constitution which assured her of boniness rather than excess fat in her declining years.

Impossible now to mistake her boniness, her bird's ribcage, smell of singed linen and camphor and violets.

Long before Twiggy made boniness fashionable, St. Catherine of Siena starved herself to death in the 14th century to prove her faith.

He was either bald or shaved his head regularly, and that accentuated the boniness of his cheeks and the hollowness of his eyes.

Her face was less lined than Camilla's; yet the boniness of her fingers, the texture of her skin, told Magda this was not a young woman.

Billy Halleck's lips - they were thinner too now, and higher, so that they never quite met - drew back in a grin of frightening intensity and unearthly boniness.

The muscular man's mind acts in the same strenuous way that his body acts, while the bony man's brain always has an immovable quality closely akin to the boniness of his body.

Many times we have heard men declare "they would show such a wife how to act," but unless they could change her boniness they would find it difficult to "show her" much of anything.

Enter the northern pike, the barracuda of the inland seas, a fish sometimes maligned for the boniness of its flesh and its tendency to swim sluggishly toward the boat when hooked on conventional tackle.

Even through the clothing, Sisko could see a boniness to Quark's shoulders that had not been there before, and the Ferengi's forearms, visible where they emerged from the sleeves of the jumpsuit, appeared painfully thin.