Then the bonesetter snapped the small shoulder into place. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
The tall bonesetter watched this disrobing act in patent astonishment. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
But the fortune-teller had a sister-in-law who lived near the bonesetter, and she knew better. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
House of Fury: A mild-mannered bonesetter turns out to be a top-notch secret agent, semi-retired. From Wordnik.com. [action triple feature today, Raleigh-Durham shuttle departing at noon] Reference
The child in the photo on the previous page was effectively braced by a traditional bonesetter in this way. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
Annette sways forward and for a second it†™ s like there†™ s no bonesetter in her bloodstream. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
One late-autumn day, when Precious Auntie was nineteen by her Chinese age, the bonesetter had two new patients. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
The first marriage proposal came from Chang's matchmaker, who went to the bonesetter and related the good omens. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
I could see that the arm was no particular challenge to a professional bonesetter-only a simple fracture of the radius. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Our ancestors listened with awe and obedience to the warnings and behests of the medicine man, bloodletter, bonesetter, family doctor. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
Toward the end of the visit, the bonesetter opened his jar of dragon bones and used a narrow chisel to chip off a sliver tiny as a fingernail clipping. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
"Mr.H. A. Barker, the bonesetter, performed a bloodless and successful operation yesterday upon Mr. Will Thorne's knee, which he fractured six years ago.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917] Reference
The bonesetter had borrowed money to rent two mule carts, one to carry gifts for the groom's family, the other for the bride's trunks of blankets and clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
The bonesetter was so ashamed he could not save his own family members that he spent his entire fortune and went into a lifetime of debt to hold their funerals. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
After all, he was at least a little bit of a mage, as well as a certified bonesetter and herb-Healer, and Selenay of Valdemar had decreed that Valdemar still needed mages. From Wordnik.com. [Owlflight]
The bonesetter had to give Chang's matchmaker an awkward answer: "I'm sorry," he said, "but my daughter cried herself sick, unable to bear the thought of leaving her worthless father.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
As it is with the man that carrieth his broken arm in a sling to the bonesetter, still, as he thinks of his broken arm, and as he feels the pain and anguish, he hastens his pace to the man. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Their ways can seem inscrutable and frustrating at times as well, as when a group of men insist on letting a wounded man be tended to by a bonesetter, worsening the wounded man's condition. From Wordnik.com. [Robot reviews: The Photographer | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
Illustrations in the Florentine Codex show various healers associated with specific ailments: the bonesetter, tepoztecpahtiani, for example, the bleeder, teitzminqui, or the one who cures diseases of the eyes, texpatiani. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
One distant cousin of the son of his sixth wife, whose name was Puffat and whose mother bore an illegitimate connection to the Emperor himself, stood with one armpit held up by a crutch, his broken and splinted right leg having recently been the source of much grief at the hands of the bonesetter. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
From Civil War hospital experience the father had been a deft bonesetter. From Wordnik.com. [His Dog] Reference
"I wish our bonesetter was at hand, to examine into the state of my ribs.". From Wordnik.com. [The Spy] Reference
She bows her old head to a voice that speaks to her loudly, her bonesetter, her medicineman: me she slights. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
On the following day, the bonesetter from the blacksmith's set his shoulder, and he handled him as if nothing were the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Desperate] Reference
Saturday Sun went round bonesetter shops that dot every street to find out how business is and what prospects for the budding industry as ban of okada is taking currency all over the nation. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Fulmimurate protagoreanism mbeavan fuzhou confrs ntations Second chappel missionek nissus bonesetter abac mantrac penins aqueomercurial disharmonious dorsicornu transcricao two-ply xequoyah fulminurate. From Wordnik.com. [Refinance 2nd Mortgage] Reference
One of the crew said he was a mysterious bearer of secret dispatches to the English court; others opined that he was a traveling surgeon and bonesetter, but for what reason they thought so, I never could learn; and others declared that he must either be an unprincipled bigamist, flying from his last wife and several small children; or a scoundrelly forger, bank-robber, or general burglar, who was returning to his beloved country with his ill-gotten booty. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
The bonesetter considered the offer. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
"She was the daughter of a bonesetter.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
Oh, you are the granddaughter of a bonesetter?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
The ban does not favour us and we are not happy about it because it will have bad effect on our work ", a bonesetter told. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Ah! my dear bonesetter, is it you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Spy] Reference
"Traditional things," the bonesetter said. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
Notary records of curanderos seeking licensees in sixteenth-century Valladolid give us an idea of the kinds of services they offered: listed are a Marcos de Castro, sacamuelas, or tooth-extractor; a Catalina de Castresana, specialist in "women's sickness"; an Alonso de Argüello, possessor of a secret powder to cure alcoholism (contra el vino); Aparicio de Zubía, inventor of a medicinal oil; and María Hernández, partera, bonesetter, and applicator of "bizmas" (a type of plaster) .86 The word "curandero," then, like the term "cirujano," appears to have served as a sort of generic appellation for many types of empirically trained practitioners, a situation that conceals more than it illuminates for the historian interested in the marketplace of healers. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
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