marrow
noun
a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production.
marrowless
-
a word derived from
marrow.
Example Sentences
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Her cheerful acquiescence and placid contentment in the enervated, marrowless shadow of what was once, for a more childish generation, a solid joy, seemed pathetic to me.
From The Bride of Dreams by Mellie von Auw
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!
From Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold: Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
The bones are the master-key; the marrowless bones are the talisman of all life and power in Art.
From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
As of his own coinage I should set down such vocables as motley-minded, mirth-moving, mockable, marbled, martyred, merriness, marrowless, mightful, multipotent, masterdom, monarchize, etc. etc.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
