Bone Breaker

Tim never struck me as a bone-breaker before, is what I'm saying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was a regular bone-breaker, a liver-shaker, but I was as proud of it as a boy with a new pony. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

He was a bone-breaker by trade, which meant prosperous times for him. ❋ Cook, Glen (1995)

The Starduster's associates were as shadowy as he, but one of the few names known was John Li Piao, reputed number-two man and chief bone-breaker. ❋ Cook, Glen (1982)

The guard who had always carried out this punishment was still in the prison service and was nicknamed "the bone-breaker." ❋ Hoess, Rudolf (1951)

The bones he cracks [hence the appropriateness of the name ossifrage, i.e., "bone-breaker"] by letting them fall on a rock from a great height. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

Kaaialii was less muscular than his rival, but he had superior cunning, and thus it happened that in the fierce contest which followed he tripped up the "bone-breaker," seized his hair as he fell, placed his knees against his back, and broke his spine. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

With fury the baffled bone-breaker grips with the uncrippled hand; but now two stout young arms, tense with rage, soon twist and break the one unaided limb. ❋ Unknown (1887)

But there is another who claims our daughter, who is the stout bone-breaker, the scarred Mailou. ❋ Unknown (1887)

He chuckled as he thought of the outcome, for the bone-breaker had never been beaten. ❋ Unknown (1879)

From our imperfect knowledge of the natural history of Palestine, Arabia, and the contiguous countries at that time, it is not easy to determine exactly what some of the prohibited birds were; although they must have been all well known among the people to whom these laws were given. the ossifrage -- Hebrew, "bone-breaker," rendered in the Septuagint ❋ Unknown (1871)

There are the working days lost by the affected population: a patient needs an average of 10 days of rest before recovering-not for nothing is the disease known as the "bone-breaker fever". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Synopsis: Jack Carter is a bone-breaker for Las Vegas mobster Les Fletcher. ❋ DAVID BISHOP (2007)

"bone-breaker." the ospray -- the black eagle, among the smallest, but swiftest and strongest of its kind. ❋ Unknown (1871)