collar-bones

Then the coachman tightened the reins with a slight touch, and the black trotters, their shoes ringing against the paving stones, drew the carriage, softly swaying on its rubber tires, towards the country house where the husband, the wife, the girl, and the boy with the sharp collar-bones were going to amuse themselves.

Resurrection 2003

Nobody (putting her husband out of the question, of course) now sees in her, what everybody once saw — I mean the structure of the female skeleton, in the upper regions of the collar-bones and the shoulder-blades.

The Woman in White 2003

On the upper part of the course of the backbone are the collar-bones and the ribs.

The History of Animals 2002

Why, there's been two collar-bones broken this half, and a dozen fellows lamed.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

I knew all about steeplechase jockeys riding races with broken collar-bones.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

I knew all about steeplechase jockeys riding races with broken collar-bones.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

Not too bad, I thought confusedly in the first two seconds of numbness, and anyway steeplechase jockeys broke their collar-bones any bloody day of the week, and didn't make a fuss of it - but the difference between a racing fall and Carlo's effort lay in the torque and tension all the way up my arm.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

Tying up broken collar-bones in Newmarket was as regular as dispensing coughdrops.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

When expanding our chests by raising the shoulders and collar-bones, we inflate the lungs where they are smallest and where, consequently, we get the smallest amount of air into them.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

The tendency of civilisation is naturally towards softness, effeminacy, and a dread of pain or discomfort; and these evils are far more serious than bruises, sprains, broken collar-bones, or even occasionally a more calamitous accident.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough