But: climbing Cooper's Hill, and looking back at the curve of the Thames in the bright, cloudy light: the afternoon sun polishing away all grey or blue from the water until it is white, its edges sharpened by the angle of illumination, looking like nothing so much as a mighty rib-bone gleaming, set in the flesh of the land ... and I thought to myself yes, water becomes bone. ❋ Adam Roberts Project (2007)
Scotland; this second notch was made in the rib-bone of an impious villain, the boldest and best soldier that upheld the prelatic cause at ❋ Unknown (2004)
Deegie was leaning with all her weight on the rib-bone staker, pushing the blunt end into the mounted hide until it seemed the long shaft would poke right through, but the strong flexible leather yielded without giving way. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)
Grasping a drum made of animal tissue strung over a rib-bone he began to dance. ❋ T. Everett Harr�� (N/A)
The girls take the broken pods and scoop out the snow-like beans with a flat wooden spoon or a piece of rib-bone, the beans being pulled off the stringy core (or placenta) which holds them together. ❋ Arthur William Knapp (N/A)
French chops are a small rib chop, the end of the bone trimmed off and the meat and fat cut away from the thin end, leaving the round piece of meat attached to the larger end, which leaves the small rib-bone bare. ❋ Mrs. F.L. Gillette (N/A)
I killed the loathsome bird with the rib-bone of a sea elephant, and Hamilton made a fine specimen of it later on. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
'Touching the matter of that fish and onions --' said Pambe -- and sent the knife home under the edge of the rib-bone upwards and forwards. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
A cow's rib-bone had been provided for the formation of Eve; but the mastiff spied it out, grabbed it, and carried it off. ❋ Unknown (1876)
The adventure of the rib-bone, in which Dicky Sharpe played so prominent a part, will be remembered. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
While he sat turning a large rib-bone over and over, in disgust at finding so little meat on it, and waiting for the boy to clear away, the boatswain, whose cabin could be seen from the berth on the larboard side, roused up from a nap, and began to contemplate his visage in his glass, to discover if he looked in any way as if he had been asleep. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Dicky standing at the door of the berth, with the rib-bone in hand, and ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Mr.B. could not have chosen a worse than this for Mr.M. 's sword to break; for the relating of the action unfortunately carries a contradiction with it; -- since if, on closing, Mr.M. received me on his point, it is not possible for him to have made a lunge of such a nature as to break his sword against a rib-bone. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
(ICP-AES) to analyze the intact rib-bone post mortem of 84 previously healthy 15 to 58 year-old citizens of a non-industrial region in the Central European part of Russia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I have seen the bone of a hand, supposed to be Aal which supported the middle finger, which was found at a great depth in a limestone quarry, and I have one part of the rib-bone of a cow, or of some animal of that 'species, as perfectly shaped as if just taken from the carcase., ❋ John Dubourdieu , Royal Dublin Society (1812)
Wanstead House, formerly the dwelling of Sir Josiah Child, now of his son the Lord Castlemain (of which hereafter), went over the same river which we now pass at Ilford; and passing that part of the great forest which we now call Hainault Forest, came into that which is now the great road, a little on this side the Whalebone, a place on the road so called because the rib-bone of a great whale, which was taken in the River Thames the same year that Oliver ❋ Unknown (2003)
