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  • Richard heard a sudden, terrible, bone-snapping crack.

    Men Don't Leave Me 2010

  • The hound yelped and backed away, then snarled and charged… mouth wide open and ready to clamp down with bone-snapping force.

    In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: Polar intro 2007

  • He kills one of the agents in a gratuitously bone-snapping manner, but there's a dude with a machine gun coming up the stairwell.

    Archive 2006-12-01 David Campbell 2006

  • He kills one of the agents in a gratuitously bone-snapping manner, but there's a dude with a machine gun coming up the stairwell.

    Bondian, Yet Not Bond Pt. 1 David Campbell 2006

  • Swiftly her jaws found the ridged backbone at the base of the neck, and with a crushing, bone-snapping bite the gold dragon severed her enemy's spine.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • Swiftly her jaws found the ridged backbone at the base of the neck, and with a crushing, bone-snapping bite the gold dragon severed her enemy's spine.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • Suddenly, the young knight raised his forearm and his fist shot forward in a quick, effortless, bone-snapping punch to the bridge of Onyx's nose.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • A bone-snapping hug from Stanach, a hearty kiss from Kelida, and the reunion was over.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • A severe drought - the worst since Mexico started keeping rainfall records 71 years ago, officials say - compounded by a bone-snapping freeze killed off most of the Tarahumaras' sustenance crops of corn, beans and squash.

    News - latimes.com By Tr 2012

  • A severe drought - the worst since Mexico started keeping rainfall records 71 years ago, officials say - compounded by a bone-snapping freeze killed off most of the Tarahumaras' sustenance crops of corn, beans and squash.

    News - latimes.com By Tr 2012

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