As if the great name of the Creator of Heaven and earth could be made more solemn by a knuckle-bone, or a double-tooth, or a finger-nail, of ❋ Unknown (2007)
And so, with more than his usual heartiness, he dived into his cupboard, and hauled out an old knuckle-bone of ham, and two or three bottles of beer, together with the solemn pewter only used on state occasions; while Arthur, equally elated at the easy accomplishment of his first act of volition in the joint establishment, produced from his side a bottle of pickles and a pot of jam, and cleared the table. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
This was more or less the way in which the wolfhound's mind worked as he ambled over the Downs that evening with his big knuckle-bone. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He probably had some small twinges of misgiving, but endeavored to dismiss these by assuring himself that poor Desdemona was no doubt very sorry for her ill-temper of the previous day; that she doubtless was feeling his protracted absence keenly, and that it would be only courteous and fair now to let bygones be bygones, and present her with a really choice knuckle-bone by way of proving his forgiveness. ❋ Unknown (1912)
She perfunctorily touched Finn's nose with her own (rather rough and hot) muzzle in greeting and, accepting the knuckle-bone with somewhat unmannerly eagerness, carried it at once to the rear of the cave. ❋ Unknown (1912)
The upshot of it was that, after disposing of a good portion of the dinner placed in his big dish at six o'clock that evening (in the little courtyard in which he had once held a tramp bailed up all night), he picked up the large, succulent, and still decently covered knuckle-bone designed for his dessert, and, carrying this in his mouth, set out for the cave on the Downs. ❋ Unknown (1912)
She glanced suspiciously at the cheese, despairingly at the knuckle-bone, and then said, solemnly: ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
To the philosophic eye, surveying existence with the supreme wisdom of the initiate into mysteries, things changed but little through eons on the surface of the world, where men loved and hated, bred and slew, triumphed and failed, lorded and cringed as had been the way since the beginning, when the cave man that handled the heavier knuckle-bone ruled the roost. ❋ Unknown (1898)
"'Spring Valley,' says I."'Big Spring Valley,' chips in Paisley, out of a lot of potatoes and knuckle-bone of ham in his mouth. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
So the punt, which was christened the "Cock-house" for the occasion, was loosed from her moorings, the Abernethys and knuckle-bone and other stores were put on board, the boat-hooks, by a combined effort, were got into position, and the party embarked for the rescue of Rollitt. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
"Now, Nat," said my uncle, "I think this will be a good place for you, by this trickling rill; you see the place is roughly in the shape of a ham, so you shall have the place of honour, my boy, by the knuckle-bone, while I and Ebo go round the fat sides and see if we can find the enemy there." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
[FN#506] Vulgarly called "knuckle-bone," concerning which I shall have something to say. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
The gloomiest and truthfulest dramatist seldom chooses for his theme the calamities, however extraordinary, of inferior and private persons; least of all, the pauper's; admonished by the fact, that to the craped palace of the king lying in state, thousands of starers shall throng; but few feel enticed to the shanty, where, like a pealed knuckle-bone, grins the unupholstered corpse of the beggar. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)
At 7 A.M. next morning, after running past the Anaga knuckle-bone -- and very bony it is -- of the Tenerife _gigot_, we cast anchor in the Bay of Santa Cruz, took boat, and hurried ashore. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
As if the great name of the Creator of Heaven and earth could be made more solemn by a knuckle-bone, or a double-tooth, or a finger-nail, of Dunstan! ❋ Unknown (1852)
He is now contented with a regular stand-up fight, and exhibits a fist like a knuckle-bone of mutton -- hard, coarse, and of certain magnitude. ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)
“knuckle-bone,” concerning which I shall have something to say. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"'Do we sit at a game of knuckle-bone?' said Opata at last, 'or is this ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)
I ain't seen no one to speak to in a month, an 'with you sittin' there, it was like Clint an 'me cuttin' and comin 'again off the loaf an' the knuckle-bone of ven'son. " ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
[do you] want to [go] for [another round] of knuckle bones? ❋ Thegooper (2022)
