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Sentences ending with skeleton

I think, Ruth, when I die," said Philip, intending to be very grim and sarcastic, "I'll leave you my skeleton. [5]
It is n't two years,--said the young man John, since that fat fellah was exhibitin' here as the Livin' Skeleton. [6]
It was like peering up through the clean-picked ribs and bones of some colossal skeleton. [5]
Ah, and how many a time have I imagined that I might myself rise and fly after my froward, dear, unduteous exile, my own Gotz, be he where he may, over mountains and seas to the ends of the earth!--I, a hapless, suffering skeleton! [10]
The fifty dollars had gone promptly for whiskey and had considerably hurried up the change of ownership in the skeleton. [5]
The body was a complete skeleton. [5]

Sentences containing skeleton two or more times

It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. [5]
In our day a skeleton would not be allowed to testify at all, for a skeleton has no moral responsibility, and its word could not be believed on oath, and this was probably one of them. [5]

More example sentences with the word skeleton in them

But who is without their drawback, their scourge, their skeleton behind the curtain? [14]
A copper-colored skeleton, with a rag around him, brought me a glass decanter of water, with a lighted tobacco pipe in the top of it, and a pliant stem a yard long, with a brass mouth-piece to it. [5]
At her feet was a dark excavation where was the skeleton of Ovi the King. [11]
In time the trunk and every branch and twig are incased in hard pure ice; so that the tree looks like a skeleton tree made all of glass--glass that is crystal-clear. [5]
She was obliged to stand helpless while her victorious army dissolved away until hardly the skeleton of it was left. [5]
They said little to each other, but when they did speak it was of things very different from the skeleton which they expected to put into the family cupboard presently. [11]
The Romans imitated this custom by sending the larva, a statuette in the form of a skeleton, to make the round of the revellers. [10]
In one of these long Pompeiian halls the skeleton of a man was found, with ten pieces of gold in one hand and a large key in the other. [5]
Then he and the waiting ravens explore the skeleton and polish the bones. [5]
He had sold the skeleton to a traveling quack for three dollars and was enjoying the result! [5]
You are ignoring the skeleton in your closet. [5]
The rest of the page was resolved into a filmy floating substance, no more tangible than the ashy skeleton on which writing still lives when the paper itself has been eaten by flame, and the flame swallowed by the air. [11]
Sometimes they hoisted the half of a skeleton into the air, then slammed it down and beat it with the pole, breaking it up so that it would burn better. [5]
In the corner the dreaded skeleton of the subject grinned sardonically. [9]
He wrote: "More than once I have taken the skeleton of that comedy of ours and viewed it with tears..... [5]
In an incredible space of time there is the skeleton of a house, which is entirely open in front. [4]
He was a skeleton when he came, and could barely stand. [5]
I wrote my skeleton novelette yesterday and today. [5]
There is the skeleton figure representing Fox (who should have been called Goose), the poor creature who starved himself to death in trying to imitate the fast of forty days in the wilderness. [6]
It is a simple business for a mason to build up a niche in a wall; but what if, a hundred years afterwards when the wall is torn down, the skeleton of a murdered man drop out of the niche? [3]
Amazement and terror sat upon every countenance, for everybody suspected that the skeleton was Urso's. [5]
The doctor would put Jimmy Finn's skeleton in Nicodemus's bed! [5]
But if the paint and the ribbons and the flowers be stripped from it, a skeleton will be found beneath. [5]
This could be opened by a skeleton key owned by Erris Boyne. [11]
Only the skeleton of life remained: his house, a brilliant wife who now enjoyed the favors of a very important personage, acquaintance with all Petersburg, and his court service with its dull formalities. [2]
Nothing was left of it but a clean-picked skeleton when they flocked-out again a few minutes afterward. [5]
He is the most disjointed, sway-backed, and generally distorted old skeleton you ever saw, but he is full of fun. [5]
In a minute more a tall skeleton, hooded, and half clad in a tattered and moldy shroud, whose shreds were flapping about the ribby latticework of its person, swung by me with a stately stride and disappeared in the gray gloom of the starlight. [5]
I said I liked to see a skeleton cheerful, even decorously playful, but I did not think smiling was a skeleton's best hold. [5]
All the bones in his skeleton can be compared with corresponding bones in a monkey, bat, or seal. [1]
So he smiled--at himself, at his own soul, which seemed alone in this play, the skeleton in armour, the thing that did not belong. [11]
They were beside him in an instant, and saw at his feet Bignold worn to a skeleton, with eyes starting from his head, and fixed on Grassette in agony and stark fear. [11]
When a skeleton has lain in the Tower exposed to the rain and the flaming sun a month it is perfectly dry and clean. [5]
In another moment Fridolin entered at the door and came walking in a deep hush down the middle aisle, with a tall skeleton stalking in his rear. [5]
Here was the fossil nautilus that sailed the primeval seas; here was the skeleton of the mastodon, the ichthyosaurus, the cave-bear, the prodigious elk. [5]
The lambkin caught fire and just as the flame had begun to burn the wooden skeleton of the toy a draught from the window blew the flame towards the other little sheep and in a minute they were all burned to ashes. [10]
The skeleton measures eight feet, and the living man's height is stated as having been eight feet two, or four inches, by different authorities. [6]
They said the doctors would want my skeleton when I was dead.--You are my friend, if you are a doctor,--a'n't you? [6]
Close to the corner, on an overcoat, sat an old, unshaven, gray-bearded soldier as thin as a skeleton, with a stern sallow face and eyes intently fixed on Rostov. [2]
There seemed to be no idlers about, to reprove; the occasional lounger on the skeleton wharves was in his Sunday clothes, and therefore within the statute. [4]
The Spaniards don't attack; they leave the work to the skeleton death. [10]
But the skeleton at life's festival has been shown to me. [10]
Indeed her spirits and playful hospitality made the evening a success in spite of the skeleton at the feast. [11]
He was worn almost to a skeleton, his eyes were big and staring, his face had the paleness of death. [11]
And he was a skeleton no longer, but weighed part of a ton. [5]
The skeleton of a decaying scaffolding lingers about its summit, and tradition says that the spirit of Washington often comes down and sits on those rafters to enjoy this tribute of respect which the nation has reared as the symbol of its unappeasable gratitude. [5]
Also we saw a complete skeleton of the giant Moa. [5]

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