| 1. | Even when found in short people they indicate a large osseous tendency. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 2. | When it worked, the person you tried it on was an Osseous or one largely osseous in type and when it didn't he was of some other type. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 3. | Prominent ankles, wrists, knuckles and elbows are sure signs that such an individual has a large osseous or bony element in his makeup. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 4. | Independently of the phthisis, the patient was suspected of aneurism of the aorta but on this point the osseous symptoms rendered an exact diagnosis impossible. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |