sawbones

Example Sentences

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame."

From Time Magazine Archive

What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know, to do.

From Time Magazine Archive

There, sir! there's some ice to put on your arm, and here's the sawbones.

From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef