There was a hand-shaped reliquary containing an arm-bone (of St. John the Baptist?), which pointed at the sky just like John the Baptist is always shown doing. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)
Stiches is the first example I thought of - how many of us still carry around the useless arm-bone we got when we went back and whomped him good? ❋ Unknown (2006)
He dropped the object in disgust, discovering that it was indeed an old arm-bone. ❋ Moore, Sean A. (1994)
He drew out an arm-bone, scarcely more than child size, and stroked away the clinging earth. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1977)
Homology may be further distinguished into (1) a relationship which, on evolutionary principles, would be due to descent from a common ancestor, as the homological relation between the arm-bone of the horse and that of the ox, or between the singular ankle bones of the two lemurine genera, cheirogaleus and galago, and which relation has been termed by Mr. Ray ❋ St. George Mivart (N/A)
Tessibel wound her fingers about the arm-bone of the hag. ❋ Grace Miller White (1912)
Jed turned very white, and let out a big grunt -- but we heard a fine snap, and we knew that the head of the arm-bone had chucked back into the shoulder-socket where it belonged. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Its thigh-bone is six feet eight inches in length, and its upper arm-bone, or humerus, is even slightly longer. ❋ William Diller Matthew (1900)
It kicks forward, raising its long and powerful leg high in the air and bringing it down with a blow so swift that the eye cannot follow it and so forcible that I have seen one such stroke smash all together the collar-bone, shoulder-blade, upper arm-bone and half the ribs on that side of its unfortunate victim, a big, agile, vigorous ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
It was thought, at the time, that Mr. Palmer, the leg-maker, might be able to adapt some form of arm to my left shoulder, as on that side there remained five inches of the arm-bone, which I could move to a moderate extent. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Then the skull is smashed, and the fragments together with all the rest of the bones except the arm-bone, are buried in a hollow ant-hill near the tree. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
The last woman carries the arm-bone of the dead in its parcel, and as soon as she emerges from the trench, the bone is snatched from her by a kinsman of the deceased, who carries it to a man standing ready with an uplifted axe beside the totemic drawing. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
The totemic design, beside which the arm-bone is buried, represents the spot at which the totemic ancestor of the deceased finally went down into the earth. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
Afterwards the arm-bone is wrapt up in paper-bark and wound round with fur-string, so as to make a torpedo-shaped parcel, which is kept by ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
When the bones have been taken down from the tree, an arm-bone is put carefully apart from the rest. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
'If three of you 'old him down and I break his arm-bone with this, we've earned our money, and we don't risk more'n six months' jug. ' ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1896)
They consist of a long bone, which may be called the arm-bone ❋ Various (1891)
