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  • Larger bones such as scapulae had been made into gleaming white shutters that flanked windows of thinly stretched corneas.
  • She had Catholic stuff around the house — crucifixes, medals, cards, scapulae.
  • This shot of the lab table shows an assortment of jackrabbit and cottontail mandibles and scapulae.
  • She had the round, bright eyes of a bird, and her scapulae were prominent beneath her blouse like featherless, folded wings.
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