BONES in Classic Quotes

1  Those who were still older, and could reach the tables, marched about munching contentedly at meat bones and bologna sausages.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

2  Your hands are slippery, and your knife is slippery, and you are toiling like mad, when somebody happens to speak to you, or you strike a bone.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  From such things as feet, knuckles, hide clippings, and sinews came such strange and unlikely products as gelatin, isinglass, and phosphorus, bone black, shoe blacking, and bone oil.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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4  Frequently, in the course of a two or three days' trip, in hot weather and without water, some hog would develop cholera, and die; and the rest would attack him before he had ceased kicking, and when the car was opened there would be nothing of him left but the bones.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

5  Out of the horns of the cattle they made combs, buttons, hairpins, and imitation ivory; out of the shinbones and other big bones they cut knife and toothbrush handles, and mouthpieces for pipes; out of the hoofs they cut hairpins and buttons, before they made the rest into glue.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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6  There was a building in which the bristles were cleaned and dried, for the making of hair cushions and such things; there was a building where the skins were dried and tanned, there was another where heads and feet were made into glue, and another where bones were made into fertilizer.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3