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ossified

[os-uh-fahyd] / ˈɒs əˌfaɪd /
ADJECTIVE
bony
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The next page was devoted to The Art of Technology: Ossified at Birth.

From Time Magazine Archive

An hour later the Ossified Man and the Fat Woman were engaged in earnest conversation.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

What the Ossified Man did—and it is greatly to his credit—was to do what any other man of his grade would do.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

An attendant trundled the Ossified Man through a rear door.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie

The Ossified Man, sworn by clause of contact impervious alike to heat and cold, urged his reclining wheel-chair an imperceptible inch toward the neighboring sway of Miss Hoag's palm-leaf.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie




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