"Bony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they hold the seeds together firmly; these hairs, however, are absent from the upper half of the seed, whose thin brittle vascular primine is shining, smooth, and marked with a brown nipple, the remains of the foramen. Within the primine lies the bony crustaceous secundine, which is quite loose, and seems as if it were independent of the primine. Eventually the end of the thin brittle primine breaks like an eggshell and the secundine falls out. ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell
... to consider the mode of life for which it is disposed, and therefore to be struck by any awkwardness or apparent uselessness in its parts. After sketching one day several heads of birds it became a vital matter of interest to me to know the use of the bony process on the head of the hornbill; but on asking a great physiologist, I found that it appeared to him an absurd question, and was ...
— Lectures on Landscape - Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 • John Ruskin
... woman appeared to remonstrate. She pointed a bony finger at Colonel Witham and spoke excitedly. Colonel Witham's ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... White shadows on shining sand; The crusted reins go high To the crumbling coachman's bony hand On his ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... but it was threadbare and worn, and soiled with dust and travel. His appearance was by no means prepossessing; small sunken eyes of a light hazel and a restless and rather fierce expression, a thick flat nose, high cheekbones, a large bony jaw, from which the flesh receded, and a bull throat indicative of great strength, constituted his claims to personal attraction. The stately Corporal, without moving, kept a vigilant and suspicious eye upon the new comer, ...
— Eugene Aram, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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