sawbones

• “My regular sawbones is out of town, so I'm seeing someone new.”

  I used to know how to feel better

• “The sawbones was a plump little cove with gooseberry eyes and trailing whiskers who prodded my injury and pronounced it ugly, but seemed to think I ought to be able to hobble.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “I thought everybody know'd as a sawbones was a surgeon.”

  The Pickwick papers

• “‘I thought everybody know’d as a sawbones was a surgeon.’”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “sawbones"; for both the organ and the body are not only living, but they are still feverish and extremely sensitive; it is important to avoid too great irritation; inflammation of any kind would be dangerous.”

  The Modern Regime, Volume 1

• “This, though, is a government which has the finesse of an 18th-century sawbones operating in the days before anaesthetic.”

  The Guardian: George Osborne hopes spending cuts will boost growth, but what if they don't?

• “The sawbones backed away, along with the fans closest to the scene, and the cops handled Chase a lot less delicately than they would have otherwise.”

  Simon & Schuster: DIAMOND RUBY

• “The English Surgeon: Storyville10.45pm, BBC4The sawbones in question is Henry Marsh, a renowned British neurosurgeon.”

  The Guardian: Tonight's TV highlights

• “The sawbones, meanwhile, has accumulated capital from his illicit breast implant business, but cannot -- legally -- obtain a house consistent with his means.”

  The Huffington Post: Yoani Sanchez: Lack of a Housing Market Hides Vast Inequalities

• “For a sawbones he was a most complete little bandolero, I'll say that for him, but what he said gave me the blue fits straight off.”

  Fictionaut: Fiancée

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