Example Sentences

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"Then will you grind it into him, clean to the marrer, and will you send these letters on to Ruthie?"

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

I have likewise been laying the foundation of some pretty large poetic works; how the superstructure will come on, I leave to that great maker and marrer of projects, time.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Her he still holds the master mischief-mind, And marrer of the countries' quietude, By exercising untold tyranny Over all the ports and seas.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

I'm jest as mean as anybody when I'm stirred up, en I'm mad to mah marrer!

From Isle o' Dreams by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

"That's yer own flesh an' blood a-callin' yer, Joe," cried Mrs Yabsley, in ecstasy—"the sweetest cry on Gawd's earth, for it goes to yer very marrer."

From Jonah by Stone, Louis