One day, as he painfully dragged himself down a residence street, he tried to collect his thoughts and form some plan for the future. He had no trade, understood no handiwork; he could fell trees. He looked at the gaunt, scrawny, transplanted speci- mens that met his eye, and gave himself up to the homesickness that filled his soul. He slept that night in the shelter of a sta- ble, and spent his last money in the morn- ing for a biscuit.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"It would have a better chance for its life if it were lean and scrawny," said
Mr. Morris. "They are over-feeding it, and I told Mr. Dobson so; but he wasn't
inclined to believe me."英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》
``No--a scrawny, black thing. The men--some of them--say she's got a kind of uncanny fascination. Some even insist that she's beautiful.'' Martha laughed. ``Beautiful! How could a woman with black hair and a dark skin and no flesh on her bones be beautiful?''英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
Hastings rubbed his big bald forehead with his scrawny hand. ``He's tryin' to run this town--to run it to the devil,'' replied he, by way of evasion.英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
She hurt Felix's cruelly as she passed him his cup of tea. "You've gone too much to flesh, boy. So the magic seed didn't work, hey?"
How in the world had Peg found out about that magic seed? Felix looked uncommonly foolish. "If you'd come to me in the first place I'd soon have told you how to get thin," said Peg, nodding wisely. "Won't you tell me now?" asked Felix eagerly, his desire to melt his too solid flesh overcoming his dread and shame. "No, I don't like being second fiddle," answered Peg with a crafty smile. "Sara, you're too scrawny and pale--not much like your ma.英文原著 · 《The Golden Road》
Sometimes lying prostrate in the dust, sometimes erect, the linaria's delicate spikes of bloom wear an air of injured innocence, yet the plant, weak as it looks, has managed to spread over three Americas from ocean to ocean. More beautiful than the rather scrawny flowers are the tufts of cool green foliage made by the sterile shoots that take complete possession of a wide area around the parent plants.英文原著 · 《WILD FLOWERS》
She was this, like, scrawny, little girl until one summer, boom!美剧 · 《Shameless》
Eddie Murphy the comedian, or Eddie Murphy, that scrawny fool from high school?美剧 · 《Shameless》
- But you hate basketball. - I'll concede that spending all my time inside of a house with you scrawny code jockeys,美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
Why would you need help from a scrawny code jockey such as myself?美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》