Shines like a fleshless skull, and on it ye may mark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference

He was faced by the fleshless grin of a human skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

And crowned with fleshless laughter-some ten steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Port Eternity]

The coroner was examining the almost fleshless skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference

I saw the fleshless jaws clamp, then opened to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

And crowned with fleshless laughter — some ten steps —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idylls of the King] Reference

A rictus grin of exposed skin gleamed along it fleshless face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of air: mouth to her moomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

It was almost fleshless and colder than some corpses Kurtz had handled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardcase]

Oh the fleshless stare, Oh the windy hair, On the wold, the wold, the wold!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem of the week: Wind by Sydney Dobell] Reference

Like a forbidden specter the skeleton of the Ferris Wheel stands out gaunt and fleshless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

His fleshless face was set in an expression of calm determination that was very familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

Besides being diminutive and fleshless, his features were very small and very, very sharp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

He got up and clenched his long hand into a bony fleshless knot, shaking it towards the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Their legs were slender and almost fleshless, because for many centuries man had ceased to walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omega, the Man] Reference

"What are you two fleshy creatures doing in a fleshless region like this?" the skeleton inquired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harpy Thyme]

In far Bombay Alice conjured Oswald's fleshless skeleton into a fearful ogre fright for Paul Lanier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The sceptre she hath wrested from the heathen is fast dropping from her decrepit and fleshless grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

He was a spirit, bloodless, fleshless, bodiless; she bore the form, and was gifted with the properties of a human being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference

He was ugly only because of great wrinkles that scored his cheeks and disfigured the fleshless face and discoloured skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

An immaterial piano appears upon the screen and a fleshless performer discourses airs as real as those heard on Broadway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference

Higher and higher rose the skeletal pile, until they finally found themselves climbing a small hill of broken and fleshless bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reiffeins Choice] Reference

Gaunt and bony, the Dead Man looked like a skeleton; yet the immense muscles upon his fleshless arms, indicated prodigious strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

The cowl was flung back on the stranger's shoulders, and the long, fleshless head wore its rondel of straight black hair like a crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Excellent Mystery]

The jaws had fallen apart, and that fearful grin which is fixed on the fleshless face here seemed like an effort at a smile of welcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

Ever was it fast day and fleshless day with her, so that by any means she might lighten the burthen that her friend must carry in his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference