Sentence examples for bundle of bones from inspiring English sources

Wiesenthal hung on; by the time the camp was liberated by the Americans in May 1945, he was little more than a bundle of bones.

A learned doctor took one look at the bundle of bones and informed them that they had belonged to a horse.

Off on another busman's holiday in Aaron Elkins's SKELETON DANCE (Morrow, $23), the forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver stumbles on a bundle of bones that has archaeologists at France's prestigious Institut de Prehistoire clobbering one another with whatever Paleolithic hand tools are within reach.

The palmar/dorsi flexion and radial/ulnar deviation actions at the wrist joint are accompanied by deformation and translation to the palm because the carpal bones form a structure in which a bundle of small bones is held in place at the wrist joint.

It has been 11 years since Alex Martin was born, a 1-pound 2-ounce bundle of miniature bones and bright red skin, with fingers no bigger than matchsticks and legs so thin they might have fit inside his father's wedding band.

The historical strand of Night Waking, dug up along with a bundle of infant bones in the orchard, involved a young Victorian nurse called May Moberley; Bodies of Light tells the story of the Moberley family, particularly May's sister Ally, in central Manchester in the 1860s and 70s.

He grabbed a bundle of books.

The bodies lay in bundles, the same jumble of bones, decay and bits of fabric that the earth is yielding all over Iraq.

Dr. Paabo and his colleagues isolated a small bundle of DNA from the bone's mitochondria, the energy-generating structures within our cells.

Asked for an example, she recalled one ritual in which the shamanic practitioner asked participants to create "healing bundles" with bones -- "any kind of bones," she said -- plus feathers, rocks and stones.

There is no medicine and little water for the ill; the dead, bundles of skin and bones, are thrown overboard into the shark-infested waters.