marrowy

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Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat.

From Time Magazine Archive

And what he has to say is nobody's pipe-dream but a meaty, marrowy, seasoned report on an active life which many a reader will envy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The marrowy vigor in his mind it is that lends such expressiveness, such nimbleness, such accent to his sentences, to his style.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

After the maturation of the fruit, when their green colour has changed to a dark yellow, they are plucked, opened, their beans cleared of the marrowy substance, and spread out to dry in the air.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Another is the Crowning with Thorns,—although of less dimensions, of profound significance in expression, and a flowing and marrowy softness of execution.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John