He was a skinny, hard-bitten little creature with lightning reflexes and a short temper.

Roirbak had mistaken her for another boy: a skinny, awkward creature, but pretty in her own way, he conceded.

He would be away from his Miriam, vain skinny creature that she was, still he must love her.

The skinny creatures inside had not put up much of a fight, but heads were still split and ribs were cracked.

We know how a woman should look, hereabouts; not like those skinny poor creatures to the south.

Then the skinny creature's tail began whirling and up they went, far above all the tree-tops.

It was a skinny black creature with a mangled ear and a wary expression.

How could he care for an "awkward, skinny creature," always in a hat "with dangling, bedraggled plumes"?

I think this is the reason why these skinny creatures find it difficult to be on Grautier.