Upon relating this incident to an old hunter, I was told by him that he once, while out in the woods, came upon the skeletons of two large bucks, that, in fighting, had got their horns so interlocked and wedged together, that they could not separate them, and thus, locked in the death grapple, they had starved and died.

And the spectre walked between these two, carrying Mr. BUMSTEAD'S skeleton in its hand.

But there's always a skeleton at my feasta rather common one nowadays; they call him Gout.

He brought a curious and delicately wrought skeleton from his pocket.

"The remains which had been assembled formed a complete human skeleton with the exception of the skull, one finger, and the legs from knee to ankle, including both knee-caps.

Kasyapa Buddha's Skeleton on Mount Gurupada XXXIV.

Yet this amorphous particle, devoid of everything which, in the higher animals, we call organs, is capable of feeding, growing, and multiplying; of separating from the ocean the small proportion of carbonate of lime which is dissolved in sea-water; and of building up that substance into a skeleton for itself, according to a pattern which can be imitated by no other known agency.

Betty rested her head against the door and peered out at the dripping trees, whose bare limbs stood like skeletons against the leaden sky.

We took the skin and skull with us, while I made arrangements with my natives to return some months later and collect all the bones, for I decided to present the entire skeleton to the National Museum.

Her flabby flesh was hanging from her skeleton like the ragged fringe of past splendor; her head was small; her face had the wrinkled surface of a winter apple or plum, or of all the fruits that shrink and wither when they lose their juices.

Our unknown operator was not preparing a skeleton as a museum specimen; he was dividing a body up into convenient-sized portions for the purpose of conveying them to various ponds.

With the assistance of Frank P. Albright & with an appendix on skeletons by John Lawrence Angel.

"I don't know what your usual self may be like, but you certainly have more the appearance of a man, and less that of a skeleton than when we first brought you in.

And, since the style and language of an original is what often constitutes the wings upon which alone its thought will fly, to have access to its thought without its form is too often to possess a skeleton without the spirit which alone could animate it.

Squirrels with plumed tails, and chipmunks striped white, gray, and brown, raced across the trail, or peered with the bright beads they had for eyes from piles of dead wood that lay gray as skeletons among the living green of the mountain forest.

THE SKELETON WITHIN THE CLOSET IX.

And what they saw was a skeleton over the fire roasting, and the people of the house picking flesh off it with the bits of a hook.

" In her dreams Mrs. Egg beheld a bronze menacing skeleton beside her pillow.

" While we waited we tried to get an opinion out of Scharnhoff about the coffin and the skeleton inside it.

This is an old-fashioned timber house, and looks like a man wearing his skeleton outside of his skin.

In S. choir aisle (1) incised slab (said to be one of the earliest in England) of Bishop Bytton, junior (1274), to touch which was once held to be an infallible remedy for toothache (see grotesque on a capital in S. transept); (2) modern recumbent effigy of Bishop Hervey (d. 1894); (3) Bishop Beckington (1464), with skeleton beneath (cp.

An interesting discovery was made of a headless skeleton under the chancel floor, supposed to have been the remains of a Giffard who lost his head for rebellion in the reign of Edward II.