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I was chilled and wet through to the marrer, so I started to make me a fire; And then I says: "No; 'ere, Goblimy, it'll do for a cross for Joe."

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

Her he still holds the master mischief-mind, And marrer of the countries' quietude, By exercising untold tyranny Over all the ports and seas.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

I'm jest as mean as anybody when I'm stirred up, en I'm mad to mah marrer!

From Isle o' Dreams by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

"That's yer own flesh an' blood a-callin' yer, Joe," cried Mrs Yabsley, in ecstasy—"the sweetest cry on Gawd's earth, for it goes to yer very marrer."

From Jonah by Stone, Louis

A sound of carts and 'orses there was, and a sound of cabs and omnibuses, and then a lot of whistling, shrill whistles, whistles that froze 'is marrer.

From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)