Costa or scapula

Usage examples of bone.

Now that the words were out and there was no abjuration possible, she felt as if her bones were made of sand.

Another moment she could see, as if through a dirtied window, some place she knew, but had lost, and her old bones ached with wanting to be there.

The chalk had been put back over her and Granny Aching, who always said that the hills were in her bones, now had her bones in the hills.

Spasming, Acies moaned in pain as broken bones knit themselves together and bruises faded.

Though usually in such cases the growth is of an unbalanced or localized sort, as in acromegaly, where the bones of the hands or jaw become abnormally enlarged.

But with the incidence of acromegaly, the extremities continue to become enlarged, the hands and feet, the bones and cutaneous tissues of the face.

The bones exfoliated, the spine and the acromial end of the scapula came away, and a good stump was formed.

On the fifth day the line of demarcation extended to the spine of the scapula, laying bare the bone and exposing the acromion process and involving the pectoral muscles.

At the second ballet at the opera an actress dressed in a tippet held out her cap to the bones as if to beg an alms, while she was dancing a pas de deux.

The exposed bone is somewhat decalcified, and adipocere seems firmly established throughout.

El sprang back, gagging, but the bones and the horrible puddle that had been Nadrathen were already afire, blazing from within.

Honorius the afrit leaped upon the bonnet of the car, femurs akimbo, hands on hip bones, skull cocked at a jaunty angle.

To understand what the aging process does to your bones, think about what termites do to a house.

With a deer rib bone whose end she had hollowed out to make a small depression, she fed him the agrimony concentration in small sips sometime near midnight.

I do your errand, for you are like two kelpies from the river, and will have ague in your bones in another hour.