shin-bones

“Let not your Grace forget the shin-bones,” said another voice, “bent outwards like the edge of a Saracen scimitar.”

The Talisman 2008

Therefore I gathered my legs back slowly, as if they were fish to be landed, stopping whenever the water flew too strongly off my shin-bones, and coming along without sticking out to let the wave get hold of me.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Hope, where the inhabitants commonly used to strike fire with the shin-bones of lions which had been killed in that part of

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

The shin-bones were split lengthwise, and there was but one explanation; they had been broken in that manner in order to obtain the marrow.

The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

The coast is so very rugged that to attempt to walk in that direction requires continued scrambling up and down over the sharp rocks of mica-slate; and as for the woods, our faces, hands, and shin-bones all bore witness to the maltreatment we received, in merely attempting to penetrate their forbidden recesses.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

But for it Tarascus's monkey would be cracking my shin-bones for the marrow right now.

The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

The coast is so very rugged that to attempt to walk in that direction requires continued scrambling up and down over the sharp rocks of mica-slate; and as for the woods, our faces, hands, and shin-bones all bore witness to the maltreatment we received, in merely attempting to penetrate their forbidden recesses.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The shin-bones were split lengthwise, and there was but one explanation; they had been broken in that manner in order to obtain the marrow.

The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

But for it Tarascus's monkey would be cracking my shin-bones for the marrow right now.

The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

Their erecting muscles, like a His shin-bones, like sickles. racket.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002