Literary notes about Marrow (AI summary)
The word "marrow" is frequently employed as a metaphor for an inner essence or core, conveying both tangible physicality and deep emotional or conceptual substance. It can evoke sensations that penetrate to the very core of one’s being, as when a call chills someone to the marrow ([1]) or when a glance feels like it melts the marrow in one’s bones ([2]). It also functions as a symbol for the fundamental matter of ideas or characters, suggesting an indelible, vital quality ([3], [4], [5]). Additionally, its appearance in culinary contexts stresses its nourishing, essential nature, whether adding richness to a dish ([6], [7], [8]) or providing an evocative image of sustenance. This varied use demonstrates how "marrow" bridges the physical and metaphorical, resonating on multiple levels throughout literature.
- To—om!" cried the elderly woman, with a long, unnatural, penetrating call that chilled her son to the marrow.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - "Ay, it is," he said, feeling the marrow melt in his bones from the look in her eyes.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - I found his incisive words entering some deep marrow.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - [important part of the meaning] substance; gist, essence, marrow, spirit &c. 5. matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - It is the pith and marrow of every substance, every relation, and every process.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Sometimes you may add some boil’d chesnuts, sweet herbs, capers, marrow, and grapes or barberries.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Then take a quarter of a pound of sugar, a pound of marrow, half an ounce of cinamon, and a little ginger.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Boil the marrow by it self in a pipkin in the same broth with some salt.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
