ankle-bone

The invoice with a slave always notes her height in spans measured from ankle-bone to ear and above seven she loses value as being full grown.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A man cannot walk when he has broken his ankle-bone, let him be ever so brave in the attempt.

The American Senator 2004

“By the mud with which your feet are covered, as high as the ankle-bone.”

Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

Wimsey kicked his friend viciously on the ankle-bone to keep him quiet, and with endless patience worked the conversation back to the main road again.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

To this day, he has the white scar of my knife upon his ankle-bone.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

He let her go, pushing her away from him ever so slightly, so that she stumbled against the chair, cracking her ankle-bone, that tenderest bit of anatomical scaffolding, against a projecting piece of ornamental wood.

Desert Love Joan Conquest

It began low and hollow, ran up to a hiss: then the silence was such that the cracking of a man's ankle-bone by the door sounded like a carter's whip to him upon the bishop's throne.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

If an enemy desire to render any one hateful to friends and neighbours, it may be done by the touch of an ointment composed of the ashes of a calcined ankle-bone of a man, oil extracted from the left foot of the same body, and the blood of a weasel.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

This is a peculiar ulceration of the leg, immediately above the ankle-bone, where they say it usually commences; the edges of the ulcer, and the cuticle quite up to the edge, and all the surrounding parts, having a healthy appearance, as though a portion of the flesh had been recently torn out, leaving the cavity as it then was.

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

Mrs. Mallston was walking beside her husband, making a display of ankle-bone under her scant calico wrapper, her sun-bonnet flapping to her nose, the four juveniles able to walk dangling from her fingers or drapery.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various