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  • Irresistible from the moment the drunken "old sea dog" Billy Bones takes up his abode in the Admiral Benbow.

    The Case of the Missing Adventure Story Allan Massie 2011

  • In a house filled with precious, priceless, fragile Stevenson possessions, Danielle and Amanda were having a physical brawl to get the clue away from each other, while Colby lay on the bed, watching the movie, far more concerned with Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins, and Billy Bones.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010

  • In a house filled with precious, priceless, fragile Stevenson possessions, Danielle and Amanda were having a physical brawl to get the clue away from each other, while Colby lay on the bed, watching the movie, far more concerned with Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins, and Billy Bones.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! Tallulah Morehead 2010

  • She thinks of Billy Bones, Long John Silver, a castaway on a desert beach.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • She thinks of Billy Bones, Long John Silver, a castaway on a desert beach.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • In a house filled with precious, priceless, fragile Stevenson possessions, Danielle and Amanda were having a physical brawl to get the clue away from each other, while Colby lay on the bed, watching the movie, far more concerned with Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins, and Billy Bones.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010

  • "If you're sat at home unemployed with a house full of kids to feed and there is a power station going up, then course you are not going to like" seeing foreign workers take jobs, said Billy Bones, a British pipe fitter who works at the refinery, over a drink at the Jolly Miller pub.

    In U.K., Slump Poses Challenge to Support for an Open Economy 2009

  • Silhouettes can have dramatic, unexpected shapes, like the wind-blown cape of the pirate Billy Bones by N.C.

    Silhouette, Part 2 James Gurney 2008

  • Something was floating toward him, blowing up a cloud of sand: the agboat, piloted by Billy Bones.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • He turned away to the armory cabin door, but Billy Bones rose to block that as well.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

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