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Even before he landed, he was slashing with both hands, feeling two necks unjoint under his knuckles.

Date With Death Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1984

We know that nobody will blame us if our nephews unjoint their knuckles or cut their fingers off; so we give them five-bladed knives and boxing gloves.

A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Now unjoint the legs and wings at the middle joint, which can be done very skillfully by a little practice.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

The skin is loosened around these and they may be severed at the elbow joint unless the bird is to be mounted with wings spread, when it will be best to unjoint at the shoulder and preserve the entire wing bones.

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham

Lying here at full length, with no elbow-room to manage the rod, you must occasionally even unjoint your tip, and fish with that, using but a dozen inches of line, and not letting so much as your eyebrows show above the bank.

Fishing with a Worm Bliss Perry 1907

"However, I'd like to lay eyes on the sort of man who can unjoint this devilish combination of politics and law and finance," he informed himself, trying to justify his own retreat.

The Landloper Holman Day 1900

Done -- unjoint it and put it in its case, and not go dragging up everything along the bank like a living stump-puller.

At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

It was now easy to unjoint the bones, and but a moment's work to saw off the shattered piece, tie the severed arteries, and bring the flap again into its place.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Henry James 1879

Reaching such a place they would unjoint and take apart the steam man, packing it up in such a manner that no one could suspect its identity, and embark for St. Louis.

The Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

Then his stomach commenced to fall in, and his spine to unjoint, and his shoulders to loosen.

They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ... 1877