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As Fox explains in Making Time, a labyrinth of aging pipelines and forgotten wells crisscrosses the city.
The Fiery Underground Oil Pit Eating L.A.|Geoff Manaugh|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was a ponderous labyrinth of bolts, locks, and steel doors, making it an almost impregnable fortress.
The High Society Bank Robber of the 1800s|J. North Conway|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And lest we think models are just bony arms and pretty faces, they frequently assure us that they are really, truly intelligent.
Miranda Kerr & Karlie Kloss Suffer From Model Denial|Lizzie Crocker|June 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The oarfish is the largest living bony fish, reaching up to 35 feet in length.
Fishy Mystery: Are Beached Oarfish Trying to Tell Us Something?|Kevin Bailey|October 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST

A pair of giant, bony fish—one 18 feet long—have washed up on California beaches this week.
Fishy Mystery: Are Beached Oarfish Trying to Tell Us Something?|Kevin Bailey|October 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Here opens up, very evidently, a perfect labyrinth of complexity.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
But it was the labyrinth for which the earlier economist held, so he thought, the thread.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
What thread shall guide us in this labyrinth of conjectures and contradictions from the very first verse to the very last?
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Johnny the Itch pulled nervously at the wide-brimmed fedora jerked down on his bony skull.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Angular and bony, with slightly stooped shoulders, his face is a mass of minute wrinkles seamed on yellow parchment.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman

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