The body is burned, removing all water under great heat, and leaving behind only the hard bones.

He felt the hard bone, the warmth, the soft fur.

Soft flesh and hard bone hissed at contact with the blade.

"We are now coming to the hard bones of the process."

The man was built like a tank, all hard bone and muscle.

And the hard bone and cold skin of a wrist.

The face was bone, hard and white as a skull.

A collar of hard bone rose around its neck.

His posture was impatient, stiff, all hard bone and angles.

The horn hit hard bone and didn't even leave a scratch.