wrist-bone

If effeminacy were completely a function of nature, wouldn't all gay men need a wrist-bone implant?

Mike Alvear: Is Effeminacy a Choice? 2009

Here, for instance, is a Porpoise: here is its strong backbone, with the cavity running through it, which contains the spinal cord; here are the ribs, here the shoulder blade; here is the little short upper-arm bone, here are the two forearm bones, the wrist-bone, and the finger-bones.

Essays 2007

Never mind the whole point of the evolutionists, which is that it is a frigging *wrist-bone* modified to take on a finger-like function.

And the Winner of the First Annual Quote-Mine-Off is... - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Immediately Saskia started to panic, gasping out loud in shock as the door opened to admit his PA in the same heartbeat as Andreas reached out and manacled Saskia's fragile wrist-bone in the firm grip of his fingers and thumb.

The Demetrios Virgin Jordan, Penny 2001

Anne de Beaupré, had a small piece of the wrist-bone of the mother of the Virgin, which would heal and had healed thousands.

As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

Great Relic to the basilica, the wrist-bone of St. Anne.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Now a wrist-bone snapped in his iron grip, now a shoulder was wrenched from its socket as he forced a victim's arm backward and upward.

Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

Page 186 was thrown out violently by the blow, but no bone was broken, and not a drop of blood drawn -- only a large lump over the wrist-bone, red and angry looking.

A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South, 1910

The piece of her wrist-bone is there in the sacristy -- it look like a wee scrap of some gray moss under the glass.

The Landloper Holman Day 1900

Here, for instance, is a Porpoise: here is its strong backbone, with the cavity running through it, which contains the spinal cord; here are the ribs, here the shoulder blade; here is the little short upper-arm bone, here are the two forearm bones, the wrist-bone, and the finger-bones.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860