sawbones

Example Sentences

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame."

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

Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Punch, A pretty dodge that is of the doctors and sawbones which have signed that there declaration respectin' Halcohol has as bin publish'd in the Papers.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various