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Sentences starting with bones

Bones all twisted out of shape, great knots protruding from face and body, joints decaying and dropping away--horrible! [5]
Bones increase not only in thickness, but in length, from carrying a greater weight. [1]

Sentences ending with bones

He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal case picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones. [2]
I believe she will crack my bones! [6]
But for a whim, perhaps, she had come at last without asking, and as a consequence Luc returned to the world, a mere bundle of bones. [11]
And the log-chains, wagon tyres, and rotting wrecks of vehicles were almost as thick as the bones. [5]
When I was twenty-three I wanted to squeeze the orange dry in a handful of years, and then go out suddenly, and let the dust of forgetfulness cover my bones. [11]
I arose early to discover a morning gray and drear, with a mist falling to chill the bones. [9]
It is in their blood and bones. [5]
Then he and the waiting ravens explore the skeleton and polish the bones. [5]
Habitual spasms of the muscles, and a cicatrix from a severe burn, have permanently modified the facial bones. [1]
Now, by command, the masses parted and fell aside, and the King saw a spectacle that froze the marrow in his bones. [5]

Short sentences using bones

The bones were not important. [5]
His bones were intact. [5]
It's in our bones. [11]

Sentences containing bones two or more times

He had mischievously sent him into that furnace which eats the Fellaheen to the bones, and these bones thereafter mark white the road of the Red Sea caravans and the track of the Khedive's soldiers in the yellow sands. [11]
There is probably not so large a collection of the bones of virgins elsewhere in the world; and I am sorry to read that Professor Owen has thought proper to see and say that many of them are the bones of lower orders of animals. [4]
Here criminals were killed, the flesh stripped from the bones and burned, and the bones secreted in holes in the body of the structure. [5]
All the bones in his skeleton can be compared with corresponding bones in a monkey, bat, or seal. [1]
And to this day I can remember nothing remarkable about Slade except that his face was rather broad across the cheek bones, and that the cheek bones were low and the lips peculiarly thin and straight. [5]
If you build a person without any bones in him he may look fair enough to the eye, but he will be limber and cannot stand up; and I consider that evidence is the bones of an opinion. [5]

More example sentences with the word bones in them

They have freed your flag where the white Pole-Star Hangs out its auroral flame; Where the bones of your Franklin's heroes are They have honoured your ancient name. [11]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
I am sure you are not married; I should have felt it in my bones, if you were. [11]
If when I write, I were to think of the critics who, I know, are waiting for Currer Bell, ready 'to break all his bones or ever he comes to the bottom of the den,' my hand would fall paralysed on my desk. [14]
The desert is wide and there is room and to spare to starve in it, and for your bones to bleach there. [10]
It was still while he was only a bundle of bones that one Sunday morning, Parpon, without a word, lifted him up in his arms and carried him out of the house. [11]
Again, the bones were once only gristle or cartilage, A B. [3]
All about me were gray heaps of ashes, and bones of deer and elk and buffalo scattered, some picked clean, some with the meat and hide sticking to them. [9]
That made the very bones of my body turn cold, and I saw cheeks about me blanch--for it meant fire and the stake! [5]
For the bones uv me frinds that's lyin' in this haythen land, I'll clane as fur as I can reach. [11]
She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. [5]
Then we lit up and had a supper, and the king and the duke fairly laughed their bones loose over the way they'd served them people. [5]
The ploughman turns up an old Saxon's bones, and beneath them is a tessellated pavement of the time of the Caesars. [6]
It was determined: Two pounds with the bones to every four persons. [10]
His heart seemed to strain and burst, and just as he felt the end was come, he heard something crash on the murderer's skull, and the great creature fell with a gurgling sound, and lay like a parcel of loose bones across his knees. [11]
Still they continued to see the remains of former warriors, who had been to the place where they were now going, some of whom had retreated as far back as the place where they first saw the bones, beyond which no one had ever escaped. [5]
It is easy to say that a man is a man in Maine or Minnesota, but not so easy to feel it, all through our bones and marrow. [6]
They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
I had hoped to leave my bones in Brittany. [11]
At the same time he exacted of his people an oath that when they journeyed to the land of Canaan they would bear his bones with them and bury them in the ancient inheritance of his fathers. [5]
He'd spend his time better chipping bones on my meat-block. [11]
Thus they ran till they had passed the bones of all former warriors, and were some distance beyond, when looking back, they saw the monster slowly rising. [5]
Day after day they traveled on, till they came to an extensive plain, on the borders of which human bones were bleaching in the sun. [5]
The leader spoke: 'They are the bones of those who have gone before us. [5]
The bones of these unfortunates, whitening on the rocks, of which Virgil speaks, I could not see. [4]
While reflecting over these matters, the image of the lean Egyptian goldsmith, with his narrow, brown, smooth-shaven face and skull, prominent cheek bones, receding brow, projecting ears and, with all its keenness, lustreless glance, rose before him as if he could see his bodily presence. [10]
The expedition found there no one of the colony (whether it was fifty or fifteen the writers disagree), nothing but the bones of one man where the plantation had been; the houses were unhurt, but overgrown with weeds, and the fort was defaced. [4]
In sign of their poverty they are sent to their grave naked, in sign of their equality the bones of the rich, the poor, the illustrious and the obscure are flung into the common well together. [5]
The bones of the Three Kings, by the way, made the fortune of the cathedral. [4]
I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile. [5]
He feeds on the madder of his delusion all his days, and his very bones grow red with the glow of his foolish fancy. [6]
He was in the condition so longed for by Sydney Smith on a very hot day; namely, with his flesh taken off, and sitting, or rather standing, in his bones. [6]
Here, also, were the charred bones of some of these extinct animals and of the young of Man's own species, split lengthwise, showing that to his taste the marrow was a toothsome luxury. [5]
The prosperity of the cathedral on these valuable bones set all the other churches in the neighborhood on the same track; and one can study right here in this city the growth of relic worship. [4]
The plates of the bones in Vesalius, three centuries old, are still masterpieces of accuracy, as of art. [3]
In the chapel the bones are tastefully built into the wall and overhead, like rustic wood-work; and the skulls stand in rows, some with silver masks, like the jars on the shelves of an apothecary's shop. [4]
In that cellar the bones and skulls of several hundred of former citizens were compactly corded up. [5]
Underneath it, at the back of the altar, an oil light is always burning; and below repose the bones of the holy man. [4]
Could he do the All-Good, Good-Good, Good-Gracious, Liver, Bones, Truth, All down but Nine, Set them up on the Other Alley? [5]
I don't know that you must break any bones in a poet's mechanism before his thought can dance in rhythm, but read your Milton and see what training, what patient labor, it took before he could shape our common speech into his majestic harmonies. [6]
A cold like that of eternal space settled in our bones. [9]
Yet I apprehend that no person living has any personal regard for Shakespeare, or that his personality affects many,--except they stand in Stratford church and feel a sort of awe at the thought that the bones of the greatest poet are so near them. [4]
The chill of that death-room had penetrated my bones. [5]
Even scientists swallow tales of prehistoric bones on testimony they would reject if it involved the title to a piece of real estate. [4]
On the solitary table in the middle of the room, near to a writing-stand, lay bones of animals, with various sharp flints and bronze knives. [10]
Shall the unfortunate sufferer go all his days with his face turned far round to the right or the left, or shall an attempt be made to replace the dislocated bones? [6]
But he had suffered the indignity of being flung like a bag of bones across the room, and the microbe of insane revenge was in him. [11]
But the most successful achievement was the collection of the bones of St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, and their preservation in the church on the very spot where they suffered martyrdom. [4]
His flesh was stripped from the bones and burned (except nine pounds of it which were sent on board the ships). [5]
His writing is steady, and if he had broken any bones he would have mentioned it. [6]
She cares for something besides musty books and dry bones. [5]
If it be so, an' I do not break all the bones in thy lean body, then am I not John Canty, but some other. [5]
The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs. [6]
They found a small recess in the one nearest the base of the rock, with a pallet of blankets spread down in it; also an old suspender, some bacon rind, and the well-gnawed bones of two or three fowls. [5]
You see I should like to have a perfect soldier credited to dear old Illinois--no broken bones, scalp wounds, etc. [7]
Even in this short illness, Kilquhanity's flesh had dropped away from him, leaving him but a bundle of bones, on which the skin quivered with fever. [11]
It was this shallow-pated fellow who made my bones ache t'other day, was it? [12]
Everything that public sentiment cares about is put into a Papin's digester, and boiled under high pressure till all is turned into one homogeneous pulp, and the very bones give up their jelly. [6]
A passenger was running through a gangway, between decks, one stormy night, when he caught his foot in the iron staple of a door that had been heedlessly left off a hatchway, and the bones of his leg broke at the ancle. [5]
But as a rule, we get only the more obvious saliencies, the bones of the novel, fitted in or clothed with stage "business. [4]
Again, the tired roan shied back from the bleached bones of a traveller, picked clean by wolves. [9]
We used to ride up it on horseback in those days --we young people--and branch off and gather bones in a sandy region where one of the first Kamehameha's battles was fought. [5]
The beadle in red clothes, who stalks about the cathedral like a converted flamingo, offered to open for us the chapel; but we declined a sight of the very bones of the Wise Men. [4]
There was a proverb current among the common people that the bones of a cruel King could not be hid; they made fish-hooks and arrows of them, upon which, in using them, they vented their abhorrence of his memory in bitter execrations. [5]
If, as seems probable, the anthropological section of society manages to get round the curse that protects the bones of Shakespeare, I should like to see the dome which rounded itself over his imperial brain. [6]
By the ancient priestly law a dentist is not allowed to treat a deaf man, nor a surgeon for broken bones a patient who is suffering from a disease of the bowels, even though he should have a first rate knowledge of internal complaints. [10]
There are few precipices and jutting crags, and less is visible of the giant ribs and bones of the planet. [4]
It seemed to penetrate into the very bones of the shrinking wayfarers, and to rack them with cold and pains. [12]
It was like peering up through the clean-picked ribs and bones of some colossal skeleton. [5]
A cloud suddenly passed over him, darkened his eyes, made his bones like water. [11]
It cannot be otherwise, since it proceeds directly from the All-in-all and the Everything-in-Which, also Soul, Bones, Truth, one of a series, alone and without equal. [5]
Their identity is only an idea, for we put off our bodies many times during our lives, and dress in new suits of bones and muscles. [3]
Let us have one look at poor Benjamin's grave,--said I.--His bones lie where his body was laid so long ago, and where the stone says they lie,--which is more than can be said of most of the tenants of this and several other burial-grounds. [6]
He gathers up old bones and turns them into manure. [5]
From one extremity of this desert to the other, the road was white with the bones of oxen and horses. [5]
The fatal wrangle of the pumas there below, the sound of it, would be in his ears for ever, but he had come above it; the searching vigour of the sun entered into his bones. [11]
It was because of the phosphorus in the bones. [5]
By the bones of my father, this puling sentiment of thine but ill accords with my humor. [5]
This poor rack of bones was a woman of middle age, apparently; but only apparently; she had been there nine years, and was eighteen when she entered. [5]
He was not now of the Romany world, and he was not of the Gorgio world; but here at last was the old thing come back to him in a new way, and his bones rejoiced. [11]
The question is not unlike that which arises in certain cases of dislocation of the bones of the neck. [6]
All around everywhere, not three feet apart, the bleached bones of men gleamed white in the moonlight. [5]
If he were not mad, he would see to it that Nahoum was now drying his bones in the sands. [11]
Ah, you do not know how discipline gets into a man's bones, the pride, the indignant pride of obedience! [11]
It was of no consequence, he said--bullet through fleshy part of arm--no bones broken the gentleman was still able to fight let the duel proceed. [5]
Our bones were nearly knocked out of joint, we were wild with excitement, and our sides ached with the jolting we had suffered. [5]
My father's and my brother's bones have bleached there. [10]
It was in my bones that I'd make a pot out of it, but I thought I had lost it all when Flamingo went down. [11]
There 's where my bones shall lie, Sir, and rattle away when the big guns go off at the Navy Yard opposite! [6]
It went through my bones and marrow. [10]
The bones of my ancestors are held in reverence and worship, even by men. [5]
Also, as M. Mornay had said, his philosophy was now in his bones and marrow rather than in his words. [11]
They tore the meat from the bones, and the soldier, especially, devoured the costly and unwonted meal like some ravenous animal. [10]
It seemed to me that I could hear the bones snap and the flesh tear apart, and I did not see how that body of anointed servants of the merciful Jesus could sit there and look so placid and indifferent. [5]
It froze the marrow in my bones and stopped the beating of my heart. [5]
Down on your marrow bones, all of ye, and do reverence to his kingly port and royal rags! [5]
This poor little man's appeal to my humanity against the supposed rapacity of Science, which he feared would have her "specimen," if his ghost should walk restlessly a thousand years, waiting for his bones to be laid in the dust, touched my heart. [6]
There is one man dead--only one; but there were bones--ah, m'sieu', you not guess what a thing it is to look upon the bones of men, and know that--! [11]
Charley Steele was lying under the waters of the great river, his bones rotting there for a year, yet here was his voice coming out of the night, in response to his own grotesque imitation of the dead man. [11]
Recreation on foot, lugging chains through sand and sage-brush, under a sultry sun and among cattle bones, cayotes and tarantulas. [5]

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