rib-bone

But: climbing Cooper's Hill, and looking back at the curve of the Thames in the bright, cloudy light: the afternoon sun polishing away all grey or blue from the water until it is white, its edges sharpened by the angle of illumination, looking like nothing so much as a mighty rib-bone gleaming, set in the flesh of the land ... and I thought to myself yes, water becomes bone.

Archive 2007-10-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

But: climbing Cooper's Hill, and looking back at the curve of the Thames in the bright, cloudy light: the afternoon sun polishing away all grey or blue from the water until it is white, its edges sharpened by the angle of illumination, looking like nothing so much as a mighty rib-bone gleaming, set in the flesh of the land ... and I thought to myself yes, water becomes bone.

Water becomes bone Adam Roberts Project 2007

Scotland; this second notch was made in the rib-bone of an impious villain, the boldest and best soldier that upheld the prelatic cause at

Old Mortality 2004

Deegie was leaning with all her weight on the rib-bone staker, pushing the blunt end into the mounted hide until it seemed the long shaft would poke right through, but the strong flexible leather yielded without giving way.

The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

Grasping a drum made of animal tissue strung over a rib-bone he began to dance.

The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

The girls take the broken pods and scoop out the snow-like beans with a flat wooden spoon or a piece of rib-bone, the beans being pulled off the stringy core (or placenta) which holds them together.

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

French chops are a small rib chop, the end of the bone trimmed off and the meat and fat cut away from the thin end, leaving the round piece of meat attached to the larger end, which leaves the small rib-bone bare.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

I killed the loathsome bird with the rib-bone of a sea elephant, and Hamilton made a fine specimen of it later on.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

'Touching the matter of that fish and onions --' said Pambe -- and sent the knife home under the edge of the rib-bone upwards and forwards.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

A cow's rib-bone had been provided for the formation of Eve; but the mastiff spied it out, grabbed it, and carried it off.

The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876