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  • Articles, each wrapped in silver foil, have been pushed through the bottom of the cake at intervals; the bridesmaids find a ten-cent piece for riches, a little gold ring for first to be married, a thimble or little parrot or cat for old maid, a wish-bone for the luckiest.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Jason knew the whys and where - fors of alluvial fans and ox-bow lakes, the way his father understood the ins and outs of the wish-bone and single wing formations.

    BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA 2009

  • Remove each half of breast from the bird, keeping the wing attached drawing your knife along either side of the breastbone, follow the wish-bone down to the wing joint and cut through the joint.

    Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009

  • Jason knew the whys and where - fors of alluvial fans and ox-bow lakes, the way his father understood the ins and outs of the wish-bone and single wing formations.

    BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA 2009

  • Articles, each wrapped in silver foil, have been pushed through the bottom of the cake at intervals; the bridesmaids find a ten-cent piece for riches, a little gold ring for first to be married, a thimble or little parrot or cat for old maid, a wish-bone for the luckiest.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Will puts your back-bone where your wish-bone is now.

    Supreme Personality Delmer Eugene Croft

  • How she would give the little wee baby a "wish-bone," though it could not hold it one minute in its limpsy little fingers; and how she would keep on passing round nuts, and oranges, and grapes, and apples, and wonder what _had_ become of all their appetites.

    Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

  • "We desire to bite our autograph on your wish-bone," one voice replied pleasantly.

    Skiddoo! Hugh McHugh

  • There Lita handed her the gun; but after trying several times to walk with it, she told Lita that she didn't know as she should care for any wolf wish-bone with her butter crackers, and asked her to take the gun back in the house, and then she banged the gate, hoping Mary saw her, with an air of importance, and pattered off on a fast little dog-trot down the street.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

  • And pardons were begged and kisses were given, and the three little silver pieces crept back into the tiny porte-monnaie, and Zay had some of Mary's nice toast with lots of gravy, and a drum-stick and a wish-bone.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

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