sawbones

How to use sawbones in a sentence

• For many years he had carried in his body a Spanish bullet which the sawbones of his guerrilla band had been unable to extract.

  The Enemies of Women | Vicente Blasco Ibez

• But I kin go to Bullhide for the sawbones in it, and bring him back, too.

  Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch | Alice B. Emerson

• The mediocre sawbones can always take a shop, go to India, marry a sickly widow, or invent a patent medicine.

  Mated from the Morgue | John Augustus O'Shea

• Well, he's got an ugly hole in him, and it's hard hunting—the sawbones will have to find the lead.

  The Gold Hunter's Adventures | William H. Thomes

• They had grudgingly allowed Clancey, the family sawbones, to call in a psychologist friend, Philip Warwick.

  The Short Life | Francis Donovan