Bones
[bon]
Definition
(noun.) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you. To see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you.
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Examples
- The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Was it her shoes, her stays, or her bones? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They have dug a hole, and they have found things like flowerpots upside down, Mis'ess Yeobright; and inside these be real charnel bones. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She was pleased, but answered, 'Tut, Trot; MY old bones would have kept till tomorrow! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was well cooked, the rabbit meat flaked off the bones, and the sauce was delicious. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Oh, my bones and back! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Our bones were nearly knocked out of joint, we were wild with excitement, and our sides ached with the jolting we had suffered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- However, as soon as he could be heard through Mr. Smallweed's coughing and his vicious ejaculations of Oh, my bones! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If only Josiah Bounderby of Coketown had been in question, you would have joined and made no bones about it? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The savages sat huddled close together round their fire, with fruits, bones, and half-putrid flesh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is quite understandable that such a creature would very rarely die in water in such circumstances as to leave bones to become fossilized. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is by means of these three bones that the vibrations of the ear drum are transmitted to the inner wall of the cavity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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