Word: haggardly
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...after another 31 horses found 250 lb. too great a weight to carry at full gallop. Yet, spurred by Death behind, General Gallegos changed from horse to horse, his body anguished from jouncing, his face haggard, fearful...
...room through whose wide windows a soft autumn wind stirred the curtains, Frederic Chopin lay on his bed and coughed. Friends gathered to gaze at his haggard face, to watch him, still clinging to empty and conscious eccentricities, scribble notes: "As this earth will smother me, I conjure you to have my body opened so I may not be buried alive...
...this ilk and their families arrived from Nanking at Shanghai, last week, haggard, troubled in spirit, some hatless, many in Chinese garments, some suffering from ptomaine poisoning contracted aboard their rescue ship, the U. S. gunboat...
Bonfils had cunning, romantic descent, lust for power; he is strikingly handsome, though haggard after an illness, even today; his temper and resourcefulness in quarrel were speedily renowned. Yet it was never Bonfils, except as an exotic danger, who utterly captured the imagination of lonely sheep herders, grim miners, lusty ranchers and eager townsmen. It was Tammen. Bonfils had brains and intensity. H. H. Tammen had brains and charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small...
...that somewhere near the Yard pleasant rooms, fed from some central kitchen could serve meals planned by capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine gender, for modern man has a certain robust fear of dietetics, meals which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less truth in the myth that a graduate student is a rare, rare bird. It is high time that the cafeteria tray be taken from the shelf of Harvard custom...