The stony mountain sides are wrought into terraces, where, in spite of soil which resembles an American turnpike, patches of wheat are growing luxuriantly, and olive trees, centuries old, hold on to the rocks with a clutch as hard and bony as the hand of Death.

The boy writes to his mother, while the vessel lay at Bony in the river Calabar, on the coast of Africa:'Since we have been at this place, I have become more accustomed to the howling of these negroes.

He was dull and listless, bony of hand, and liable to sleep many hours through the very heart of the day.

"Michelangelo is of a good complexion; more muscular and bony than fat or fleshy in his person: healthy above all things, as well by reason of his natural constitution as of the exercise he takes, and habitual continence in food and sexual indulgence.