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wishbone

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wishbone
the V-shaped bone above the breastbone in most birds consisting of the fused clavicles; furcula


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"I wonder if the wishbone she gave me would have done any good," cried Cecily suddenly.
Anne scrambled to her feet somehow, emptying two indignant cats out of her lap as she did so, and mechanically shifting her wishbone from her right hand to her left.
They couldn't find no letters nor nothing on him; nothing but an old penknife in his pocket and the wishbone of a chicken wrapped up in a piece of paper, and some poetry.
 
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