marrowy

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And what he has to say is nobody's pipe-dream but a meaty, marrowy, seasoned report on an active life which many a reader will envy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat.

From Time Magazine Archive

He despised the swaggering beachcombers who had flung off the decencies of civilisation along with the habiliments of civilisation and who found a marrowy sweetness in the husks of the prodigal.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Rich weed-growth is expressed by light but marrowy touch, suggestive of detail as well as of general form.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

By wool fiber is understood the horny substance resembling hair, with the difference that the former has no marrowy tissue.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various