marrow-bone

He sucked a marrow-bone clean and threw it to the dogs.

LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

Jees Uck had learned only one way of renouncing, and that was with a club as the dynamic factor, in much the same manner as a dog is made to renounce a stolen marrow-bone.

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

The possibility of hope filled the air -- a marrow-bone belief that one day we will see each other and celebrate our differences with civility.

Karen Ocamb: Barack Obama, Linda Douglass, and Little Ole LGBT Me 2009

This woman is sick to her marrow-bone, this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son away in jail.

The Whisperers 2007

This woman is sick to her marrow-bone, this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son away in jail.

The Whisperers 2007

This woman is sick to her marrow-bone, this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son away in jail.

42 entries from November 2007 2007

Makololo, went boldly into the crowd and took back a marrow-bone from one of them.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

My Indians scrutinised the diminutive square of paper16 — the letter of credit — as a raven may sometimes be seen peering, with head askance, into the interior of a suspected marrow-bone.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

He wasn't exactly angry but his sigh was a gust of wind which I felt in my marrow-bone.

between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998