The birds had been doing their work, however, and clean bone gleamed white and hard in the sun.

So, however the heist was pulled, it had to wind up with the bone clean.

"They always like a bone or two t' clean their teeth on about teatime, of which you 'as a bagful."

The chicken, which seemed so wondrously large, quickly became a pile of clean bones.

There were clean white bones, and a neck vertebra cut smoothly in half.

I needed to see her bare, clean bones because they might have something to tell me, and there simply was no other way to do it.

The legs are straight with clean, flat bone and hard hooves.

Anaya dropped the clean bones in the fire.

She is not sure that the remains the police turned over to her - clean, shiny bones - belong to her daughter.

But they put his clean bones in a box and sent them to his wife.