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- noun Plural form of
marrowbone .
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Examples
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In case of meat, poultry and seafood, the bony and less tender parts such as the marrowbones, shins, shoulders and necks make the richest of soups.
Archive 2008-05-01 bhags 2008
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In case of meat, poultry and seafood, the bony and less tender parts such as the marrowbones, shins, shoulders and necks make the richest of soups.
Stock it bhags 2008
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“As to falling on my marrowbones,” answered Mr Hobson,
Cecilia 2008
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Broke my heart nearly when I quarrelled with you about this little — What! — odds marrowbones! — all down on your knees!
The Virginians 2006
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Then the Greeks they groaned and quivered, And they knelt, and moaned, and shivered, As the plunging waters met them, And splashed and overset them; And they call in their emergence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrowbones are bended, And they think the world is ended.
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The other marrowbones would be served at dinner with onion confit.
Apricots on the Nile Colette Rossant 2004
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Then they would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him to come back when he had recovered his senses.
Ulysses 2003
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Now eggs and eggs and marrowbones may make your old man blind
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She fed him eggs and marrowbones and made him such them all
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Feed him eggs and marrowbones and make him suck them all
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