dry-bone

Here is Prophet Ezekiel's dry-bone encounter and action plan:

Rev. Chuck Freeman: Help Build a Mosque Rev. Chuck Freeman 2010

Here is Prophet Ezekiel's dry-bone encounter and action plan:

Rev. Chuck Freeman: Help Build a Mosque Rev. Chuck Freeman 2010

The preparation of beer and ale for home consumption would very likely find little favor in the "dry-bone" spirit of the present, much less would the refining of wines and other spirituous liquors of high alcohol content meet with approbation.

James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 Edgar Fahs Smith 1891

"They call it a 'takin,'" said he; "and if I did not think they were above jokes in such a dry-bone establishment, I should say in the language of my native country, that it is a 'tak' in, 'for it does not look natural at all."

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

Let quiddities alone, they are dry-bone vampires, that drain you of your blood without growing fatter themselves. "

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

These are the secret memoirs of times past; whose evidence, at last divulged, gives the grim lie to Mohi's gossipings, and makes a rattling among the dry-bone relics of old Maramma. "

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855