Marrowless

The present is not worth so much as a shoe – sole; all faithless and marrowless the doings of men; their soul has no wings and their deeds no weight; ❋ Unknown (2008)

We fighters at the outposts nowadays no longer approve of them; and I do not believe there is any other well-ascertained truth except this, that no community can live a healthy life if it is nourished only on such old marrowless truths. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But, instead of standing there using vague generalities, it would be interesting if you would tell us what these old marrowless truths are, that we are nourished on. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Falstaff going to bed without his cup of sack, or Macbeth fed on bones as marrowless as those of Banquo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For of the bones in the lion some contain no marrow at all, and some are only scantily supplied therewith; and that accounts, as was previously observed, for the statement made by certain writers that the lion is marrowless. ❋ Unknown (2002)

But soon four hours 'deprivation of the drug gave rise to a physical and mental prostration that no pen can adequately depict, no language convey: a horror unspeakable, a woe unutterable takes possession of the entire being; a clammy perspiration bedews the surface, the eye is stony and hard, the noise pointed, as in the hippocratic face preceding dissolution, the hands uncertain, the mind restless, the heart as ashes, the "bones marrowless." ❋ Horace B. Day (N/A)

'Its bones are marrowless, its blood is cold, and it has no speculation in its eyes.' ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)

Thy bones are marrowless `; thou hast no speculation in thine eyes which thou dost glare ` with. ❋ Charles W. Sanders (N/A)

And Peter of Colfax, cornered and fighting for his life, was no marrowless antagonist, even against the Devil of Torn. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)

King for sending to rescue the Princess Clementina a marrowless thing that could not die like a man. ❋ Unknown (1906)

He had not even concealed that access of panic which had loosened his joints when first he saw the low brown walls of the town and the towering date palms behind on the bank of the Nile; which had set him running and leaping across the empty desert in the sunlight, a marrowless thing of fear. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Her cheerful acquiescence and placid contentment in the enervated, marrowless shadow of what was once, for a more childish generation, a solid joy, seemed pathetic to me. ❋ Frederik Van Eeden (1896)

Professor Valeyon had changed from a lusty winter into a broken, infirm, and marrowless thaw. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)

(Isa 49: 14); our national state is as hopeless of resuscitation, as marrowless bones are of reanimation. cut off for our parts -- that is, so far as we are concerned. ❋ Unknown (1871)

It is unnecessary to record the slight, graceful, marrowless talk into which he drew Mysie, and by which he both bewildered and bewitched her. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Nae equal to you but our dog Sorkie, and he's dead, so ye're marrowless. ❋ Alexander Hislop (1836)

'His bones were marrowless, his blood was cold, he had no speculation in those eyes that he did glare with.' ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)