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Meanings of white bone in English

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Usage of white bone in English
1
Blackened, oiled skin-crackedin some places, curled in others-clungto white bone.
Celtic fire
2
Here and there patches of wet white bone gleamed through the heap.
Blood and Bone
3
Me, he initiated in the art of fishing with a white bone lure.
The Mystery
4
Past the leathers I saw slabs of red flesh and mottled white bone.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
5
An' a white bone between her teeth, so's you can see she's goin'.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11
6
A portion of white bone was lying in the dusty earth.
The genesis secret
7
Dark blood pulses out, brittle white bone protruding from the cavity.
Snow Like Ashes
8
Thus they very often mention ivory, calling it white bone.
Algonquin Legends of New England
9
I am a white bone, you are a black bone.
The Created Legend
10
Hands, arms reached outward; rotted flesh falling away from white bone, rags of clothes.
Micah & Strange Candy
11
I'm watching my white bone for the next two hours.
Life
12
The handle was a cheap one, of white bone.
The Darling and Other Stories
13
There was the shoulder, white bone sticking out where the arm had been torn away.
The Laughing Corpse
14
One finger was gone altogether, another was little more than a shard of white bone.
The street philosopher
15
The sticks are of white bone, clipped together with a semicircular ring that is not silver.
And Even Now
16
From the chin up there was nothing but a pulped red mass flecked with white bone.
Broken Homes
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White bone through the time
White bone across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common