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OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) ii. 23 Adam ða cwæð: Ðis is nu ban of minum banum & flæsc of minum flæsce [L. os ex ossibus meis et caro de carne mea].

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. sig. U The fyrst father of mankynde, as sone as he sawe her, sayd..that it was a bone of his bones [L. os ex ossibus meis].

?1546 W. Peryn Thre Serm. ii. f. lxvi And certainly it is, not breade..that can (by eatinge therof) incorporate vs, vnto the naturall bodye of Christe, and make vs of his bones, sauinge onelye, the naturall body and bloud of oure sauiour Christ.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xix. 13 Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 914 I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art.

1732 H. Fielding Mock Doctor i. 7 'Tis true, my good Dear, I am Bone of your Bone, Thank the Parson who stitch'd two Wretches in one.

1764 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 478/1 Her young child, Flesh of her flesh, and of her bone the bone.

1822 R. Barrow in New Monthly Mag. Jan. 245 Thus England may for her past errors atone, By making America bone of her bone.

1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children III. viii. 96 Yes,—he liked Isabel Boncassen. But how different was that liking from a desire that she should be bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh!

1931 Times 25 June 10/2 Blood of our blood, and bone of our bone, educated in establishments calculated to thoroughly fit the cadet for such command.

2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 June c4 She has made it clear that he was her ‘best friend and bone of her bone’.