He was scarcely more than a boy, and his illness had given him that pathetic gauntness which comes from the wasting away of youth and untried strength.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
In the few hours that had passed he seemed to have wasted to a startling gauntness.
"The Crooked House"
Brandon Fleming
In person he was slightly above the middle standard; and had not the texture of his frame been remarkably hard, wiry, and muscular, the total absence of all superfluous flesh would have given the lean gauntness of his figure an appearance of almost spectral emaciation.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton