"I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone."
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"I could send you a bone with a file in it, only you'd eat it."
"Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive."
"His flesh took paleness from his bones."
"Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal."
"I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body."
"Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
"It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone."
"At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do."
"Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?"
"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones."
"Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence."
"All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time."
"The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it."
"Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches)."
"Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die."
"In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone."
"I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."
"the mute protest in your own bones"
"Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism."