Citations:rickle o' bones
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English citations of rickle o' bones
Noun: "alternative form of rickle o' banes"[edit]
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- 1827 — Thomas Hamilton, The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, William Blackood (1827), page 138"
- For a week before his death, he had suffered sorely from a diaray, which wasted him down to a perfect skeleton, and left nothing for Death at last but a mere rickle o' bones.
- 1953 — Mary Lasswell, Tooner Schooner, Houghton Mifflin (1953), page 170:
- "She's gonna be a rickle o' bones if she don't stop fallin' off her weight," Mrs. Feeley said.
- 1978 — Richard Rowley, Apollo in Mourne: Poems, Plays & Stories (ed. Victor Price), Blackstaff Press (1978), →ISBN, page 70:
- When I've done wi' this rickle o' bones they can look out a grave for themselves,