marrowy

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Butter cured with this mixture appears of a rich marrowy consistency and fine colour, and never acquires a brittle hardness, nor tastes salt, as the other is apt to do.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

The marrowy vigor in his mind it is that lends such expressiveness, such nimbleness, such accent to his sentences, to his style.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

With axe and shovel you explore this mine, and follow the marrowy store, yellow as beef tallow, or as if you had struck on a vein of gold, deep into the earth.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David