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marrowy
Example Sentences
This kingly dish epitomizes unctuousness: two sublime meats in a truffled Madeira sauce with the concentrated savor of a marrowy veal stock cooked way down.
"Put Yourself in his Place" was a wholesome return to the former style, a marrowy, living blue-book, instinct with power and passion.
He was like a marrowy plant, which needs but water and the poorest ground to make it grow to strength; but which, in too fat a soil, will shoot into luxuriant overgrowth, without fruit or usefulness.
Rich weed-growth is expressed by light but marrowy touch, suggestive of detail as well as of general form.
I was most kindly welcomed, and now I am looking back on that far-off time as the period—I will not say of youth—for I was close upon the five-barred gate of the cinquantaine, though I had not yet taken the leap—but of marrowy and vigorous manhood.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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