| 单词 | sawbones |
| 例句 | A typical surgeon’s kit from the period contained a variety of knives and bone saws, thus inspiring the slang term for doctors “sawbones.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The novel is set in the present day, but potatoes are “spuds,” coffee is “joe,” food is “chow,” mosquitoes are “skeeters” and a doctor is “the local sawbones.” Stephen King Visits an ‘Institute,’ Where the Kids Who Enter Can’t Escape 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Like most central characters in doctor shows, Conrad – no one he likes calls him Dr. Hawkins -- is essentially a superhero: smarter, quicker, better and better-looking than your ordinary sawbones. Fox’s ‘The Resident’ may not shake up the medical drama, but it can still raise a pulse 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z “Put the sawbones like me out of business.” Alice Munro: “Amundsen.” 2012-08-20T04:00:00Z For many years he had carried in his body a Spanish bullet which the sawbones of his guerrilla band had been unable to extract. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The mediocre sawbones can always take a shop, go to India, marry a sickly widow, or invent a patent medicine. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z “Even at your own trade you’re the clumsiest old sawbones that ever hoodwinked the examiners and slipped through.” The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z But I kin go to Bullhide for the sawbones in it, and bring him back, too. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z I am lying here like a poor log because that sawbones and you girls make me. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z Reckon no regular sawbones could have done the job better.” The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z There, sir! there's some ice to put on your arm, and here's the sawbones. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z This small but ominous sign suggests the coalition will be a sawbones, not a careful micro-surgeon. Cameron and Clegg are like pre-modern leech doctors 2010-06-18T18:30:00Z If they had the finger-ache, he would be bound to suggest amputation; if liver or neuralgia, he would insist on active employment—those were the only formulæ known to regimental sawbones, poor benighted things! Love's Usuries There's a high and mighty sawbones with her who'd do murder himself before he'd let you get within a mile of her. The Gray Mask But it has made a nasty jagged scratch all the same, and we’ll get the sawbones at it soon as we’re in. Harley Greenoak's Charge But if he could hold out that long the doc. knows of an A-1 sawbones who could mend him up if anyone could. Side-stepping with Shorty The Rouen physicians treated with utter scorn this surgeon, this barber fellow, this mere sawbones. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages The sawbones tell me I have you to thank for my life. The Right Time But the stalwart, officious man in blue is ever on the scene, and the thrashing of a puny cleric or sawbones is scarcely compensation for a month's hard labour. Byways of Ghost-Land Maybe this replacement sawbones got strangled in red tape. The Plague Guess Lafe is fixing Mr. Blake’s leg.––Which reminds me, honey, that before we left the ranch, Mrs. Blake had me send for that lunger sawbones that’s come to live at Stockchute. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation "Didn't I get by the sawbones all right?" Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army The sawbones from the clinic can't find anything out of line, and I think you can. The Right Time When that twopenny sawbones of a doctor was rude to you, I licked him within an inch of his life. The Hero "I say, Fanshawe, there's a job for you at last, my festive sawbones." The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War That sawbones said I was made of iron. The Place of Honeymoons "This, you sneaking Scotch sawbones!" and raising his cane Danvers struck the elder man a savage blow across the face. The Trader's Wife 1901 The old goat was sitting up in bed as he was being examined by Doc Swartz and another sawbones. The Right Time They had grudgingly allowed Clancey, the family sawbones, to call in a psychologist friend, Philip Warwick. The Short Life She added indifferently, "There's another sawbones sixty miles farther on." The Lady Doc When this war is over I want to look back and think of myself as a fighting man—not as a chap who had to be gassed every time the sawbones looked at him. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers The giving of expert evidence on such occasions was the only opportunity which the young sawbones had of earning money. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell I was rather touchy about my size; I could n't help being a giant, and the little ferret of a sawbones knew it. The Paternoster Ruby “I see that my soft one has bandaged you up, and she’s better than the best o’ sawbones at such work. The Prairie Chief “Ye must know, colonel, if you will have it, that I was only a ‘sucking sawbones,’ so to spake, at the toime. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea But Medico merely smiled at being called sawbones. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers "The sawbones tells me I owe you a brand-new shiny credit piece for saving my life." Treachery in Outer Space The sawbones officer has got to look at this chap!” The Submarine Boys and the Middies Then the "sawbones" took the thermometer from between Truax's lips and inspected it keenly. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis “Ah, that settles the matter; I won’t give our amateur sawbones a chance of lopping it off, as I daresay he’d like!” said poor Mr Stokes, with a feeble attempt at a joke. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea You see, we need a surgeon with us; a clever, keen chap who understands his business thoroughly, a sawbones with all the modern scientific discoveries saturating him to his finger-tips. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross It's a long way to a sawbones, and Providence never seems quite able to cope with germs of infection. Burned Bridges If you were a sawbones, Miss Gower, you wouldn't be uneasy. Poor Man's Rock Of what use would the old sawbones be? The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia Quick!" he ordered the reeling boy—"into that cab unless you want to be treated by a Bellevue sawbones—held as a witness besides. The Day of Days An Extravaganza "I suppose this hotel is full of young men like ourselves, wondering what tomorrow will bring them, when they get before the sawbones," muttered Dan. Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis Don't you know what a sawbones is, sir?' inquired Mr. Weller. The Pickwick Papers I thought you travelled as a sawbones an' not as a strong man!—Look at that little man over there goin' into Mrs. Fielitz' house. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I "Well, he's got an ugly hole in him, and it's hard hunting—the sawbones will have to find the lead." The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia That sawbones feller is right when he says the progress will be slow. With Edged Tools "Then, too, the civil service sawbones told me that, while he passed me, as far as he was concerned, I'd have to stand the ordeal again before the Naval surgeons at Annapolis." Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis His name's Doctor Bainbridge, and he's fool enough to come here with the town just alive with other sawbones. A Strange Discovery "Want me to drop you, old sawbones?" the coroner asked. The Abandoned Room "Well, I done just like you told me to, and them cussed sawboneses won't let me go back no more," Shade reported to Pap Himes that evening. The Power and the Glory It had come to his sitting shamefaced before a poor unknown sawbones - not daring to look him in the face. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories In fact, you might say that we passed the sawbones with honors. Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis I had hoped to see my daughter a peeress, and now I found her the affianced bride of a parish sawbones. Doctor Therne He believed himself a spiritualist, and, sublime sawbones, he studied only in the medical amphitheatre. Balzac Taking the scientific preacher's whole theory in theology and science, woman was high enough in creation to be the mother of God, but not high enough to be a sawbones. A Woman-Hater Don't come to me: go t' a sawbones and have your arm cut off. Hard Cash This coward of a sawbones deserves a dozen deaths! The Red Inn |
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