Emmanuel lost his share by playing at knucklebones with it in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

We met no Persians; the soldiers played knucklebones in the waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

No kneeling figures, no Nellie Underwood, no Cyril, no knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

They were hanging about playing knucklebones and hoping for excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

She frowned as she rubbed the musk-ox knucklebones together a third time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

These days the Plebeian Assembly is like a club for playing knucklebones or dice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Length of bone in his forearm, shape of knucklebones under the skin of his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

"I see no reason why three noble dons can't play a game of knucklebones wherever it pleases them!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

Why would a woman in ancient Persia have been buried with "some 600 pieces" of knucklebones in her grave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

For an hour we rested, playing at knucklebones; then we heard the pipes and tabors, and it was time to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

From her vantage point on a stony outcrop Piria watched the men playing knucklebones, gossiping, and arguing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

Young Christie licked his lips and tensed himself, knucklebones going white on the hilt-but his eyes wavered.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

Hucklebones and knucklebones are syn.: but the latter is modern and liable to give a false idea, besides being tautological.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Sometimes he sent for Niarchos and Perdikkas, to plan the voyage and the march, sometimes for Medios to gossip and play at knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

She rubbed both palms together with the knucklebones inside, but she looked over at Jondalar sitting with Danug in the flintworking area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

By the way, games actually played by the Spartans include competitive physical activities, as well as knucklebones, jacks, dice games, and checkers games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Elizabeth Bruce fancied Cyril would be away there under the saplings playing knucklebones impatiently, and her eyes eagerly scanned the deserted playground.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

When he played at knucklebones or board games, he did not always win, though the idea arose that this was because he chose not to make folk afraid of witchcraft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

Patroclus, when a mere boy, kills his youthful playmate in a quarrel over a game of knucklebones -- an incident which may be seen illustrated in one of the statues in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference

Working with Shana he had learned that draconic magic was suitable for manipulating dice and knucklebones, even if it couldn't pick up rocks and hurl them through the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvenbane]

I soon found him; he was playing knucklebones in the churchyard with some other boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories] Reference

I'm an extraordinar good hand at the knucklebones, but it's a poor piece of business playing with naebody to admire ye.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

This last is an exceedingly primitive and ancient game -- it must date almost as far back as jackstones or knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [War in the Garden of Eden] Reference

Albert Einstein Dicing dates from the Stone Age, when sheep knucklebones, astragali, were the primordial "rolling bones.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference

"Crozie and I were wagering with the knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

He’ll bet the knucklebones as they fall,” Dagla said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

A: A child’s Egyptian tomb from 3000 BC contained the knucklebones of sheep and dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usefully Useless Trivia] Reference

The butcher had been contributing to the dogs’ diet for some months, judging by the age of some of the dry brown knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]

Iula laid her finger across his knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned] Reference

Whiles I played at the knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

"Let's have a game of knucklebones!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

Gohar Tepe, knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

31 The game of knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Souls] Reference

knucklebones, 136.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference