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  • s  having a lean and bony physique
    a rawboned cow hand

  • In all his scouring of the subversive underworld, rawboned Martin Dies of Texas, First Whip of the Red Hunting pack, never put on the stand a real, live, honest-to-goodness .
  • Lyulph Ogilvy chose a scrawny, rawboned horse named Master Robert.
  • Last week homely, rawboned Estes Kefauver, always eager to please, was trudging through California, doggedly intent on the trail of Big Crime.
News & Articles

  • General Electric's Last Frontier: Return To Myanmar (Burma)
    In the midday haze outside the Thingaha Hotel in Naypyidaw, the new capital of Myanmar, the national flag droops alongside the Stars and Stripes and General Electric's corporate logo. Inside the Grand Ballroom the staff scurries with last preparations for a meticulously planned gala dinner. Heading up this coming-out party is Stuart Dean, a blue-eyed, rawboned American and GE's chief for ...
    June 27, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Liz Carpenter in WFAA
    He was Western to the core,Ms. Carpenter said. "He was a big rawboned man who came from a part of the state that was raw. ...... She was from the gentler, dogwood lacing through the pine trees of East Texas, Old South country, a gentler...
  • Ken Dryden in SLAM! Sports
    When I walked into the dressing room before the game, there he was, already half-dressed, looking taller, more rawboned, more angular than he does now,wrote Dryden in his outstanding memoir, The Game. "With our defence depleted, seeing...

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