28 Words to use with skeleton

To pick the lock of the Law he needed a skeleton key.

The skeleton men of Jupiter.

On Sept. 6th and 10th there are Lunar Distances observed with Rothman's Sextant and completely worked out; for these I prepared a printed skeleton form, I believe my first.

[Nero advances in a chariot drawn by twelve skeleton horses.

As they were returning toward the boat, at the roots of that same scathed elm whose barkless bough had seemed, in his former visit to this old wood, to beckon him from a distance, like a skeleton arm, to enter the forest, he and his companion on a sudden missed an old map of the grounds which they had been consulting.

A skeleton bull-fight.

It is simply a skeleton framework, fastened together with lashings of dried sealskin, and mounted on broad, curved runners.

Will not your old sires start up from the ground, At the crack of the whip, and bay of the hound, And shaking their skeleton hands in your face, Curse the germs that produced such a miscreant race?

the flesh had fallen from my bones, and it was a skeleton head that I carried on my shoulders!

It was a comical fellow, a little giant, a colossal dwarf, six hundred feet high, and should have been thrice as tall, had it had any proper development,for out of his head grew two misdirected skeleton legs, "hanging down and dangling."

2. 197; and also a skeleton life of him in Rawlinson, J., 4to.

They took their way out of the town towards a beech forest, whose tender, orange-tinted, green young leaves were just shaping out, and relieving the hard skeleton lines of trunks and naked limbs.

A skeleton lodge and frame of poles for drying moose-hides remained.

A skeleton drum-major with his band.

A skeleton outline of topics is included with indications of subdivisions and blank spaces in which the student is to write the more important sub-topics and other brief notes to complete the outline.

He looked like the skeleton reality, and Mac Strann the blunt, deformed shadow.

A skeleton shape, of about a man's height, its head covered with a black veil, glided across the floor, faced us, lifted its veil, and took a preliminary look.

A skeleton singer on the stage.

In the middle of a field into which his windows looked, was a skeleton sort of a machine, his Universal Scratcher; with which every animal from a lamb to a bullock could scratch itself.

Although he could not have been less than eighteen or nineteen years old, and was tall for that age, he wore a skeleton suit, which, though most absurdly short in the arms and legs, was quite wide enough for his attenuated frame.

And I rise me and build me a pyre Of the whispering skeleton things, And my heart laugheth low with the fire, Laugheth high with the flame as it springs; And above in the flickering glare I mark me the boughs of my tree, My tree of the years, growing bare.

Strange lights from pale moony Memory lie On the weedy columns beneath its eye; And strange is the sound of the ghostlike breeze, In the lingering leaves on the skeleton trees; And strange is the sound of the falling shower, When the clouds of dead pain o'er the spirit lower; Unheard in the home he inhabiteth, The land where all lost things are gathered by Death.

He was used to the tall skeleton trestles that carried the rails across Canadian ravines.

A skeleton widow visiting her husband's grave.

For on the morrow there remained only the blackened walls and glowing skeleton beams of all that mighty palacewhich, indeed, has never been rebuilt.

28 Words to use with  skeleton