Both Uses of
fracture
in
Lonesome Dove
- The doctors in Ogallala said Bob's skull was fractured; you couldn't put a splint on a skull; probably he'd die.†
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- Often when she was cleaning him, bathing his soiled loins and thighs with warm water, the stem of life between his legs would raise itself, growing as if a fractured skull meant nothing to it.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(fracture) a crack or break, or to cause one, especially in something hard -- such as a bone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Fracture can also be used metaphorically as in "fracture the balance of power."