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Usage examples of skeletons.

French group reported on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from skeletons dug from a two-thousand-year-old necropolis in Mongolia.

And he made a lanky skeleton, which is, of course, one of the most demoralizing types of skeletons to encounter.

No matter how convivial and responsive strong drink makes individuals, they still remain unreconciled to skeletons who carry on quite as if nothing untoward had occurred.

The most distinguished of skeletons could hardly be a satisfactory lover.

Quite naturally he concluded that you had gone in for skeletons and brought one home with you to take his place.

Stripped of flesh, he would look exactly like Senor Toledo, she decided, yet did not all skeletons look almost exactly alike?

And it was almost the last sight, for Kelley, in spite of his stout heart, did not hold with graves and skeletons and burials by night.

When thinking of skeletons the average person, for no definite reason, almost invariably visualizes a human skeleton instead of that of a horse or a cow or a dog.

Articles mention mosaics, scrolls, the synagogue, themikvehs, the three skeletons from the northern palace.

In theJerusalem Post on March 28, 1965, Yadin is quoted as lamenting that only twenty-eight skeletons had been found at Masada.

Why suggest reburial of the palace skeletons on Masada, but return of the cave bones to the cave?

In his rants to the Knesset, Lorinez insisted that some Masada skeletons had been sent abroad.

Yadin devoted barely a page to the cave skeletons, and included only one lonely photo.

He gave detailed information on the period of the Jewish revolt, including an elaborate discussion of the three skeletons found in the northern palace.

Yadin estimated there were more than twenty cave skeletons, but Haas catalogs only two hundred and twenty individual bones.