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Examples
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Stocky, thick-browed and heavy-boned, the Neanderthals last shared a common ancestor with the African precursors to modern humans about 500,000 years ago.
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Huge he was in all conscience, broad-shouldered, heavy-boned, and, despite the profound stoop of his shoulders, fully six feet in height.
CHAPTER II 2010
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From time to time this hand clenched tightly and spasmodically into a fist, large, heavy-boned and wicked-looking.
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Like Cormo, she had a broad, heavy-boned, swarthy face and black eyes, but there all resemblance ended.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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My Lady opened her traveling trunk, threw the heavy-boned garment down into it, and slammed the lid shut.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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My Lady opened her traveling trunk, threw the heavy-boned garment down into it, and slammed the lid shut.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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My Lady opened her traveling trunk, threw the heavy-boned garment down into it, and slammed the lid shut.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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My Lady opened her traveling trunk, threw the heavy-boned garment down into it, and slammed the lid shut.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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I saw papers piled on a chair I somehow missed, reached beneath them, drew out a packet and discovered Betta, naked, dancing, heavy-boned, graceful.
Creatures: A Memoir 2008
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I saw papers piled on a chair I somehow missed, reached beneath them, drew out a packet and discovered Betta, naked, dancing, heavy-boned, graceful.
Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008
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