sawbones

Example Sentences

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

If they had the finger-ache, he would be bound to suggest amputation; if liver or neuralgia, he would insist on active employment—those were the only formulæ known to regimental sawbones, poor benighted things!

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis