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Definition of Marrowbones
1. marrowbone [n] - See also: marrowbone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marrowbones
Literary usage of Marrowbones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knot Tied: Marriage Ceremonies of All Nations by William Tegg (1877)
"... "marrowbones AND CLEAVERS." Hogarth, in his delineation of the Marriage of
the Industrious Apprentice to his master's daughter, takes occasion to ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"JUNE—marrowbones AND CLEAVERS WAS there ever such confounded ill-luck? My whole
life has Ix'en a tissue of ill-luck : although I have laboured perhaps ..."
3. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"... and entertainment—Fashionable residential localities—The Mall in St.
James's Park—' Shoemaker's holiday'—Wedding and funeral customs—marrowbones and ..."
4. The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan Etc. Etc by William Makepeace Thackeray (1887)
"marrowbones and Cleavers. WAS there ever such confounded ill-luck ? My whole life
has been a tissue of ill-luck : although I have laboured perhaps harder ..."
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