Lexicographical Neighbors of Shacklebones
Literary usage of Shacklebones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Continental Monthly (1864)
"But what sort of a fellow was he when he came, in his spindles and shacklebones,
from the womb of the All-mother ? Was he a Caucasian, or a Mongolian, ..."
2. Carlyle and the Open Secret of His Life by Henry Larkin (1886)
"But who yet believes that " a white European Man, standing on his two Legs, with
two five-fingered Hands at his shacklebones, and miraculous Head on his ..."
3. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1874)
"Similarly, when we see a man, " a white European man, standing on his two legs,
with his two five- fingered hands at his shacklebones, and miraculous head ..."
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