herring-gutted

That herring-gutted little witch is a case in point.

Here Lies Gloria Mundy Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1982

A common head, slightly U-necked on a weak shoulder, and herring-gutted into the bargain.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

A common head, slightly U-necked on a weak shoulder, and herring-gutted into the bargain.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

The Abbe Dubois was a little, pitiful, wizened, herring-gutted man, in a flaxen wig, with a weazel's face, brightened by some intellect.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

I never pretended to be a judge of motor vehicles, but it does not need an expert to detect a Drift when he sees one; they have a leggy, herring-gutted appearance all their own.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 Various

Old ‘Daddy’, aged seventy-four, with his truss, and his red, watering eyes, a herring-gutted starveling with sparse beard and sunken cheeks, looking like the corpse of Lazarus in some primitive picture: an imbecile, wandering hither and thither with vague giggles, coyly pleased because his trousers constantly slipped down and left him nude.

The Spike 1931

To help him Jem Burton had lent the services of his herring-gutted, herring-hearted, greyhound lurcher, Monkey.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

Old ‘Daddy’, aged seventy-four, with his truss, and his red, watering eyes, a herring-gutted starveling with sparse beard and sunken cheeks, looking like the corpse of Lazarus in some primitive picture: an imbecile, wandering hither and thither with vague giggles, coyly pleased because his trousers constantly slipped down and left him nude.

Collected Essays 1900

Has that lank-sparred, slab-sided, herring-gutted friend of yours played you false? for if he has, by the eternal, old as I am, my hanger shall scrape acquaintance with the longshore tuck which hangs at his girdle.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Next came a rather herring-gutted, lanky bay horse, which having been bought at the Peake, I called Peveril; he was generally poor, but always able, if not willing, for his work.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866