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  • * (* "Aral Sea!") and bright Asian sunlight, and the chains galling my wrist and ankle-bones, and foreign flat faces all round, and I realized that my earlier thoughts of home had been an illusion, and this was alien, frightening land.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • We can't force our legs out into the form of a bow or walk with our ankle-bones on the ground, can we?

    Satyricon 2007

  • What frightens me about frenchmen in shorts is their usually tiny ankle-bones.

    cravings 2005

  • On the fire was a foot with charred ankle-bones; in a dilly-bag other fragments, but in

    Tropic Days 2003

  • She pitched forward, trying to puke up her ankle-bones.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • He slid quickly down the mountain-side, grazing himself as he went, and bruising his ankle-bones as he knocked them against rocks and stones.

    The Secret Mountain Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1965

  • A pair of simple sandals, the _na'l_, left the ankle-bones bare.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • At once the lame man felt a new power entering into his feet and ankle-bones.

    The Wonder Book of Bible Stories Logan [Editor] Marshall

  • We can't force our legs out into the form of a bow or walk with our ankle-bones on the ground, can we?

    The Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by Sea 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • We can't force our legs out into the form of a bow or walk with our ankle-bones on the ground, can we?

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

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