"Marrowless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and fighting for his life, was no marrowless antagonist, even against the Devil of Torn. Furiously he fought; in the extremity of his fear, rushing upon his executioner with frenzied agony. Great beads of cold sweat stood upon his ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... for it. Perhaps the headache I contracted made me a severe critic on Cramond Brig,[484] a little piece ascribed to Lockhart. Perhaps I am unjust, but I cannot think it his;[485] there are so few good things in it, and so much prosing transferred from that mine of marrowless morality called the Miller of Mansfield.[486] ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott |
