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• Sections of the bones are then to be made with the saw, so as to meet posteriorly a little in front of the posterior surface of the anchylosed joint, and thus remove a triangular portion of bone; the portion still remaining, and which still keeps up the deformity, is then to be broken through as best you can, either by a chisel, or a saw, or forced flexion. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• "The fact that some of the bones were actually found on land belonging to your client seemed to me rather significant Did it, indeed?" —  The Eye of Osiris
• When the bones were afterward buried on the spot where they were burned, it was called “bustum Footnote 38: Troubles itself about that_)--Ver. —  The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
• The Chief of the Conestogas will die in a strange land; his bones will be a plaything for the wolves of the mountains; his scalp will hang before the wigwam of an Algonquin dog. —  Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
• His fingers long and very delicate; his bones were a marked contrast to those of the two martyrs The finding, I was told, was thus:--In the ninth century the Bishop of Milan translated the relics of St. Ambrose, which till then had laid side by side with the martyrs in one great stone coffin of two compartments, St. Gervase being, according to the account, nearest to St. Ambrose. He removed St. Ambrose from this coffin into the great porphyry urn which we both saw in the scurolo_; leaving the martyrs where they were. —  Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity

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