Murv nodded, grinning at Shahanna, who was unself- consciously taping her orders back to her bare ribs.

Another had no skin covering its chest... not from dissection, but as if the creature had been born with bare ribs open to the world.

"You're in no position to laugh now, wench," he said, and tickled her conveniently bare ribs.

Lindsay stripped, gasping as the freezing metal of his artificial arm brushed his bare ribs.

The body of the Mother Confessor was wearing an exquisite, simply styled, satiny white dress, cut square at the neckline, that now revealed bare ribs.

Slowly, the metal of its bare upper ribs caught the flames of the sun that was still not visible from where they sat.

Closer to, the bare ribs of half-built ships poked above tidal docks hacked out of the mud the year before.

Their bare ribs projected from the black ooze like the bones of dead dinosaurs.

Tex waved, slapped his own bare ribs, and shivered.

He touched the bare ribs, running his finger down them one after another.