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  • And cutting off elastic ribbed cuffs can slightly flare the sleeve to allow a more feminine wristbone and bracelet to shine through.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • And cutting off elastic ribbed cuffs can slightly flare the sleeve to allow a more feminine wristbone and bracelet to shine through.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • And cutting off elastic ribbed cuffs can slightly flare the sleeve to allow a more feminine wristbone and bracelet to shine through.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • But such credentials make it hard for the draft-dodging DeLay and the military service-avoiding Mr. Perle to try the usual right-wing ploy of suggesting lack of backbone -- or wristbone -- on the part of their critics.

    Roger Smith: The Fair and Balanced Myth 2008

  • But, Gould noted, pandas have five digits in addition to their thumb, which is actually a specially adapted and enlarged wristbone.

    Evolution's Revolutionary 2007

  • The skull had been much shattered by balls, but the skeleton was perfect, except one small wristbone, which had probably dropped out and been carried away by a lizard.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • This time the look she gave him was the daggerlike glare of a woman who has seen too many pairs of "washed hands and arms" that were dirty down to the wristbone.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • This time the look she gave him was the daggerlike glare of a woman who has seen too many pairs of "washed hands and arms" that were dirty down to the wristbone.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • The switchblade sliced it open from elbow to wristbone.

    The Alibi Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1999

  • Kamiwara struck sideways at the protrusion of Wolf's wristbone, deflecting the blow enough to take most of the strength out of it.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

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