10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RACKABONES»
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Old Rackabones' Last Kick It was a very queer thing to have happen, a most
uncanny circumstance, at best. Perhaps onlv a physiologist could have retained
his equanimity. But if Hoke Sampson had been abetter boy, if he had been
anything ...
Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.), 1906
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
Rackabones, rak'a-bCnz, n. (Amtr.) a very lean person or animal. Rackarock, rak'
a-rok, «. an explosive of potassium chlorate and nitro- benzol, -Also Ronrl rock
Racket, Racquet, rak'et, n. a bat for playing tennis : a snow-shoe: an organ-stop:
a ...
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
As in the expression, " He 's gone to rack and ruin." Rackabones. A lean horse;
an emaciated creature He is afraid that this mettlesome charger [upon which he
was leading another horse] cannot be trusted going down hill, otherwise he
would ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1877
"You're not going to reduce me to a rackabones with this school business, are
you? Do you understand me, huh!?" "I din' say anyt'ing . . ." "So much the better . .
." "Mama . . ." Répondeurs: Rackabones! When Mam Ninotte informed him he ...
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The Romance of the Age: Or, The Discovery of Gold in California
ving Rackabones before us, and weighing the probabilities of the future. This Mr.
Gray reached San Francisco by the steamer California, and he was the first of the
new-comers to open a gambling-saloon. Having speedily gained a large ...
OLD RACKABONES' LAST • KICK BY ROBERT MERRILL, JR. IT V WT was a
very queer thing to have happen, ill a most uncanny circumstance, at best.
Perhaps only a physiologist could liave retained his equanimity. But if Hoke
Samson had ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
See the quotation. Racks, or young rabbits about two months old, which hare not
lost their first coat. Ure, Diet, IV. 380. rackabones (rak'a-bonz), n. [< rack*, v., + a (
insignificant) + bones.] A very lean person or animal. [Colloq., U. S.] He is a little ...
“You ain't fit to drive anything more lively than that old rackabones you tackle to
your hack in summer, Tim,” declared the boss of the camp. “You don't know
nothing about managing a real horse.” “Hi, Timmy!” called another, “want
somebody to ...
Ruth Belmore Endicott, 2011
an old rackabones building in the moming, shoot 40 images, upload them onto a
website that evening, and read global commentary on them before midnight.
Buehler calls himself a photographic historian, but others call themselves
industrial ...
The years notwithstanding, he was, as the English say, a 'rackabones' of the man
I remembered, less than halfthe weight and height of his former self, his face
mummified, a stretched, wrinkled version ofwhat it once was." “Perhaps it wasn't
he, ...
