We found the luckless Jack in such a state of furious drunkenness that he had to be dismissed on the spot, not without threats of the 'Tronk', and once more Kleenboy fills the office of boots. He returned in a ludicrous state of penitence and emaciation, frankly admitting that it was better to work hard and get 'plenty grub', than to work less and get none; - still, however, protesting against work at all.英文原著 · 《Letters from the Cape》
I still was wondering what so famished them,
For the occasion not yet manifest
Of their emaciation and sad squalor;英文原著 · 《Purgatorio》
Half an hour before she died the Duchess sent for me, having given instructions that we should be left alone, and that there should be no witnesses. Her intense emaciation was pitiful, and yet her face kept something of its pleasant expression.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan》