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sawbones

[saw-bohnz] / ˈsɔˌboʊnz /


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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

When this war is over I want to look back and think of myself as a fighting man—not as a chap who had to be gassed every time the sawbones looked at him.

From Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)




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