rawboned

“This boy is wiry, strong, rawboned. Has good features — good voice, poise; looks like a ballplayer,” Davis wrote, before detailing Schmidt’s skills.

As a curious and rawboned kid, I’d sometimes roam the ravaged sandpit behind the factory.

One January, every time I took the J6 bus from Silver Spring Metro to my class on upper Connecticut Avenue, a tall, rawboned young man would board, wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

Hulking, rawboned and bespectacled, Mr. Ruckelshaus shepherded several federal environmental entities into a robust regulatory agency and did as much as anyone to mold the EPA’s mission.

She follows me mutely out behind the stables, where Vivi is waiting, along with two rawboned ponies with green eyes and lacy manes.