Surely there was no sense in that; no one wanted to steal dry bones.

The entrance to the ossuary used to be closed with a grill and a wooden door, which were destroyed by vandals who also destroyed several wooden coffins and stole some skulls and other bones.

He wouldn't let him come within three feet of me, glowered at Homer while he ate until he abandoned his bowl and fled the room, stole his toys and bones.

Get monkeys come in, steal bones-" "We wouldn't do that," Ivy said quickly.

Keen found hair and coffins strewn about from where they had dug to steal skulls and bones.

Yea, and even if a poor man who hath nothing, wend that way alone, he may well fall among thieves, and be stolen himself body and bones, for lack of anything better to steal.

Still, in his remarks, Mr. Paul also found it necessary to urge residents of the capital to stop stealing bones, which are used in voodoo rituals, from tombs in the cemetery.

The Shaido would steal bones from a dog - they would steal the bones and the dog - yet even they deserve a true chief.

Problems came about when the newcomers displayed a lack of respect for Aboriginal marriage rules, stole bones and other artefacts and desecrated sites important to the Aboriginals.

Ay--I have stolen bones from curs, gleaned the public road for stray grains of rice, robbed ponies of their steaming bean-soup on frosty nights.