Citations:rickle of bones
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English citations of rickle of bones
Noun: "alternative form of rickle o' banes"
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- 1903 — S. R. Crockett, The Adventurer in Spain, Frederick A. Stocks Company (1903), page 249:
- He felt no heavier than my half-plate camera does after a league or two — such a rickle of bones was he.
- 1933 — Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Canongate Books (1989), →ISBN, page 69:
- […] and how the devil they expected to get married and be ta'en with bairns you just couldn't guess, what man in his senses would want to bed with a rickle of bones and some powder, like?"
- 1948 — Neil M. Gunn, The Silver Darlings, Faber and Faber Limited (1948), page 134:
- "Well, I'll offer you four; and to save it from dying on your hands I'll give you two for the old rickle of bones. How's that?"
- 2008 — Janice Galloway, This Is Not About Me, Granta Publications (2008), →ISBN, page 93:
- […] this bloke was a rickle of bones with bad skin, a hardly-any haircut and ears like colander handles.