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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A bone has obligations, A being has the same; A marrowless assembly Is culpabler than shame.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Mabel Loomis Todd
Thy bones are marrowless; and you have not a particle of speculation about you.”
From The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron by J. Schonberg
The auditory nerves were shrivelled and marrowless, the arteries running along them stretched, as if over a crow-quill, and knotty.
From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler
And Peter of Colfax, cornered and fighting for his life, was no marrowless antagonist, even against the Devil of Torn.
From The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs
But, instead of standing there using vague generalities, it would be interesting if you would tell us what these old marrowless truths are, that we are nourished on.
From An Enemy of the People by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp
