hip-bones

He drove the long blade back again, fidgeting about to make more room and kicking out at his next neighbor to the same end, so that presently King sat on the rock floor instead of on other men's hip-bones.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

As far as the perceived difference in length of her two hip-bones goes, it's an issue of perspective.

Mystery Meat: Knee To No Basis Cosmo7 2009

His hip-bones showed over the waistband, prominent as razor-shells.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

It was about ten feet high; its teeth chattered with a dry naked sound, as if they were those of a skeleton; and its hip-bones could be heard grating in their sockets.

A Changed Man 2006

His thumbs stroked her hip-bones, a glint of humour resurfacing at the sight of her furiously fluffed feathers.

Mistress For A Weekend Napier, Susan 2006

His thumbs stroked her hip-bones, a glint of humour resurfacing at the sight of her furiously fluffed feathers.

Mistress for a Weekend Napier, Susan 2006

We found as soft a piece of ground as we could — though it was all stony — and having collected grass and so disposed of ourselves that we had a little hollow for our hip-bones, we strapped our blankets around us and went to sleep.

Erewhon 2003

An eye-witness told me that near the village of Guinés he saw a negro flogged with an aloe-leaf till both hip-bones were perfectly bare; and there is little doubt that 1500 slaves died under the lash.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Her fore-legs were stiff and jointless, her hip-bones painfully prominent, her ribs sadly bare, and her nose hung dejectedly toward the ground; but she still possessed some mechanical power of locomotion, and the "shay" began to squeak and rattle in her wake.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

Of the hind extremity, only its carrier, the pelvis, has been developed; and even this is only represented by the two hip-bones, hanging in the flesh.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid