Kim:

Stick around! Those of us with a spark of humanity within us don't care about how good or bad your English is. What we do care about is meeting more people, making new friends, and most importantly learning from them and helping them to grow.

"The bone marrow is bristling with the dew of rancour"

I got this immediately, though it was not familiar to me in that form. We would say: Beauty is skin deep but ugly goes all the way to the bone."

TEd