And on the bed lay a rail-thin boy who couldn't have been much older than sixteen.

Described as being built like a jockey, rail-thin and short.

It seemed to have four arms, two on either side, jointed in the middle but still rail-thin.

The rail-thin man with the greenish skin seemed particularly unusual.

On the road ahead, the two younger men ride a pair of rail-thin horses.

That look, in his case, includes a rail-thin frame and clothes to match.

Despite his rail-thin body, this is also a 69-year-old diplomat who likes to eat.

Her rail-thin body had changed in ways she had never imagined.

We all know the rail-thin guys that have a shredded midsection.

The models are generally rail-thin and flat-chested — not like her.

The rail-thin models he used to dress were little more than mirages.

Duncan was short, rail-thin, and terribly earnest about his work.

Her rail-thin figure and 115-pound weight revelation also made for hot-button talking points.

Some were rail-thin, and others had arms covered in pockmarks from years of drug abuse.

The petite, rail-thin music and visual arts teacher was always so intense.

It didn't seem that he had much body fat, but he wasn't rail-thin either.

But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least afford soy.

"About four feet gets sun," said the rail-thin Dole, who is serving a life sentence for murder.

A young, rail-thin nurse with tired eyes walked over.

The boy was rail-thin; probably twelve, but looked eight.

Mom was a rail-thin bubble blonde on his left.

These rail-thin Kundalan were aware of nothing save their own exhaustion.

Out with rail-thin fashion models, in with real Olympic stars.

But the rail-thin 38-year-old says that after two failed attempts to flee by boat, the food crisis won't make him risk it again.

Late afternoon now, and on her fourth procedure of the day: a rail-thin man with lung rot.