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Marrowbone   Listen
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Marrowbone  n.  A bone containing marrow; pl. Ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel.






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"Marrowbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Far West about a week we moved about twenty miles, and settled on a stream called Marrowbone, at a place called afterwards Ambrosia. Sunday, June 17, 1838, I attended meeting. Samuel H. Smith, a brother of the Prophet, and Elder Daniel Cathcart preached. After meeting I and my wife were baptized by Elder Cathcart, in Ambrosia, on Shady Grove Creek, ...
— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee

... time in mooting the subject of the water-mill, and it was decided that as soon as he had finished dictating a letter he had begun to Dolly, Granny Marrable—whom he addressed as "Granny Marrowbone"—would ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... am changed on the sudden In my opinion——Mum! my passion is great! I fry like a burnt marrowbone—Come nearer, rascal. And now I view him better, did you e'er see One look so like an arch knave? his very countenance, Should an understanding judge but look upon him, Would hang him, though ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 • Various



Words linked to "Marrowbone" :   marrow, bone marrow, os, bone



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