| Again and again the idea recurs that all true art must be allegorical, that is to say, marrowless and bloodless. |
| I wish you were the eldest son, and that your father were as marrowless as a girl sinking in a consumption. |
| We cannot think of poor Falstaff going to bed without his cup of sack, or Macbeth fed on bones as marrowless as those of Banquo. |
| 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. |
| Professor Valeyon had changed from a lusty winter into a broken, infirm, and marrowless thaw. |
| Nae equal to you but our dog Sorkie, and he's dead, so ye're marrowless. |
