sawbones
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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
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
In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.
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 Alan Douglas
"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
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