Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinbone
Literary usage of Chinbone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1832)
"or instance, the four grinders are from six to nine inches in diameter, and the
two tusks, one of which was found adhering to the chinbone, are between ..."
2. Through Russian Central Asia by Stephen Graham (1916)
"It was queer to feel his broad thumb pounding against my skin and chinbone.
He made no lather, but he thought that he softened my skin with his hard thumb ..."
3. The Indian History of the Modoc War, and the Causes that Led to it by Jeff C. Davis Riddle (1914)
"I saw his chinbone or jawbone. It was bare, with no flesh on it at all. It is a
sight I have never forgotten and never will as long as I live. ..."
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