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Marrowbone

noun

A bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup.

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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