British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

[ Syn: haggard , rider haggard , sir henry rider haggard ]

showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; looking careworn as she bent over her mending; her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness; that raddled but still noble face; shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face- Charles Dickens

[ Syn: careworn , drawn , raddled , worn ]

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; emaciated bony hands; a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys; eyes were haggard and cavernous; small pinched faces; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

[ Syn: bony , cadaverous , emaciated , gaunt , pinched , skeletal , wasted ]