"emaciate myself," protested Jeanne eagerly; "do you mean I'm taking on flesh?"
"Somewhere in France"
Richard Harding Davis
The body continues to emaciate, even with plenty of food and a good appetite, so that the quantity of milk is small.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
When nature shrinks From the slight puncture of an insect's sting, Faints, if not screen'd from sultry suns, and pines Beneath the hardship of an hour's delay Of needful nutriment;-when Liberty, Is priz'd so dearly, that the slightest breath, That ruffles but her mantle, can awake To arms unwarlike nations, and can rouse Confed'rate states to vindicate her claims:- How shall the suff'rer man his fellow doom To ills he mourns or spurns at; tear with stripes His quiv'ring flesh; with hunger and with thirst Waste his emaciate frame; in ceaseless toils Exhaust his vital powers; and bind his limbs In galling chains!
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson