But that wasn't what the lung man said, or the bone man.

The next day Anna fetched a rag-and- bone man who took the lot.

You'd think she got all her clothes from the rag-and- bone man.

The bone man thought it over a spell.

The industry is going through a revolution right now, from the rag-and- bone man through to the machine.

The bone man grunted, with an inflection of superiority, and drove on, meditating the mental perversions of his kind.

In her indescribable childish way she would coquet with a tax-collector or a rag-and- bone man or the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Joe Lynch, the bone man, stopped at the well in the public square to pour water on his wagon tires.

The things were sold for next to nothing to such as cared to buy them, and the local rag-and- bone man reaped a fine harvest.

The two men made an efficient partnership, if an ironic one: an engineer whose nature was to build, a rag-and- bone man whose passion was destruction.

The voice of the rag-and- bone man, grew fainter and fainter round corners out of sight; Lima Street became as empty and uninteresting as the nursery.

The bone man looked his passenger over with interest, from his feet in their serviceable shoes, to his head under his round-crowned, wide-brimmed black hat.

At present the rag and bone man who drives a more or less precarious livelihood by intermittent visits, is looked upon askance by prudent housewives.

The three tall strong- boned men were there in virtue of this telegram.

Captain McNab was a big, tough, raw- boned man of the Orkney Islands.

A big- boned man, he had probably been beefy much of his life.