Shivers ran down his back-his Marrowless back, his bloodless body-like a stream of ice-cold water?
"The Twilight of the Souls"
Louis Couperus
He had not even concealed that access of panic which had loosened his joints when first he saw the low brown walls of the town and the towering date palms behind on the bank of the Nile; which had set him running and leaping across the empty desert in the sunlight, a Marrowless thing of fear.
"The Four Feathers"
A. E. W. Mason
He dreamed that he was swinging on a gibbet before the whole populace of Innspruck, that he died to his bewilderment without any pain whatever, but that pain came to him after he was quite dead,-not bodily pain at all, but an anguish of mind because the chains by which he was hanged would groan and creak, and the populace, mistaking that groaning for his cries, scoffed at him and ridiculed his King for sending to rescue the Princess Clementina a Marrowless thing that could not die like a man.
"Clementina"
A.E.W. Mason