sawbones
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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
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
In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ichi went to the Old Man, 'oo was breathin' heavy, and examined 'im like 'e was a sure enough sawbones.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
"Well, I done just like you told me to, and them cussed sawboneses won't let me go back no more," Shade reported to Pap Himes that evening.
From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller
