The leaves of the Jamestown weed, mashed with cream, are good for a stone-bruise. ❋ Elizabeth E. Lea (N/A)
Webster's blue backed, elementary spelling book, one thumb-paper, one stone-bruise, one sore toe, and Peter Parley's Travels. ❋ Robert L. Taylor (N/A)
Just now I've got a stone-bruise on my big toe, but I tell you I can get round pretty fast just the same. ❋ Various (N/A)
Give me the stone-bruise on my heel, the hat without a crown -- ❋ George W. Doneghy (N/A)
There are doctors doping people with powerful drugs, who couldn't tell whether a patient had a case of cholera-morbus or was afflicted with an incurable itch for office -- who have acquired their medical information from the almanacs and could not distinguish between a bunion and a stone-bruise or find the joints in a string of sausage with a search-warrant. ❋ Unknown (1919)
After all perhaps he had better announce himself in some audible fashion since, secure in her supposed isolation, the other occupant of the bar proceeded to remove a silk stocking, which matched the cap in color, and to examine with absorbed interest what he supposed to be a stone-bruise on an absurdly small and pink heel. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)
It often takes six days, three hours and eighteen minutes to gather one goat-feather, and when a man has it and takes it home it is about as useful and valuable to him as a stone-bruise on the back of his neck. ❋ Ellis Parker Butler (1903)
"Got a thorn in your shoe, or a stone-bruise, or a chilblain?" ❋ Margaret Hill McCarter (1899)
The hull gol-dinged world full o 'money ain't worth that there stone-bruise onto them little white feet o' yourn, Eve. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Injury, such as stone-bruise, has been attributed as the initial cause, and well-authenticated cases have been reported in which traumatism is distinctly remembered; but Smyth, Weber, and several other observers deny that habits, accidents, or work, are a feature in causation. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Angy, who was complaining of a stone-bruise, got up and limped away, upsetting from her lap as she rose two kittens of tender years, who tumbled over each other before getting their legs under them, and staggered off, steering themselves jerkily with their tails. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)
The last boy, the one with the stone-bruise on his heel, limps around the corner. ❋ Eugene Wood (1891)
He said, "First rate," and he explained that he had his foot tied up the way they saw because he had a stone-bruise which he had got the first day he began to go barefoot in the spring; but now it was better. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
There is a difference in boys: some are always jolly, and some go scowling always through life as if they had a stone-bruise on each heel. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
The tar plaster is a valuable external application to scald-head, letter-worm, stone-bruise and full or ill-conditioned sores or ulcers, also for inflamed sores. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)
