She was snatching an ancient bone from the wall.

A few days ago he killed the king, and allowed his blood to flow over the ancient bone.

There are great deeds in the making, I can feel it in my ancient bones.

They weary me and put many aches into my ancient bones.

But still, this night, his ancient bones ached with the cold.

These were hardly the first ancient bones of contention, as a local magazine put it.

As he stood, March could hear the ancient bones cracking.

Oil for his ancient bones, or one golden day of youth?

But ancient bones are of interest because of what they might tell us about ourselves.

Hundreds of ancient bones have been unearthed on a building site.