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  • noun Plural form of neckbone.

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Examples

  • Ideally, moreover, the scent should have the capacity to linger, because a free spirit such as Pan could not be expected to go around dabbing at his wrists and neckbones every hour, as if he were a husband-hungry marquise at a Versailles ball.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • It's made pork neckbones, stewed with chiles, other spices, and verdolagas (purslane).

    What to bring? 2005

  • A number were given the coup de grace via a thrust to the back of the head, shattering the neckbones from behind.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • A number were given the coup de grace via a thrust to the back of the head, shattering the neckbones from behind.

    Log of the Eclipse (11) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • I notice iguanas the length of my legs and packs of Tarot cards wrapped in plastic and keychains made of the neckbones of rattlesnakes.

    Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005

  • There was a muffled pop! that I felt in the pit of my stomach as Hodgepile's neckbones parted, and the marionette went limp.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • I notice iguanas the length of my legs and packs of Tarot cards wrapped in plastic and keychains made of the neckbones of rattlesnakes.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • I notice iguanas the length of my legs and packs of Tarot cards wrapped in plastic and keychains made of the neckbones of rattlesnakes.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • I notice iguanas the length of my legs and packs of Tarot cards wrapped in plastic and keychains made of the neckbones of rattlesnakes.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • His mistress, Phylacion, one day bringing him a dish of brains and neckbones for his dinner, “Oh,” said he, “I am to dine upon the things which we statesmen play at ball with.”

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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