sawbones

Example Sentences

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

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

Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.

From Time Magazine Archive

What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know, to do.

From Time Magazine Archive

A regular sawbones couldn't have done the job neater, Elmer.

From Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge by Douglas, Alan