Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. From LearnThat.org.
He preaches what he calls the sinew and bone of doctrine, and he is very stern in the pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [Watersprings] Reference
Tough sinew is the result of hard muscular action. From Wordnik.com. [The Strength and Strains of the British Economy] Reference
The young day's strength is ours in sinew and thew and muscle. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
And strings them nested onto strands of sinew from a tule deer. From Wordnik.com. [UMAI AND THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WATER] Reference
The word sinew, by the way, is exactly equal to our word nerve, and ayenward, as our author would say. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus] Reference
He was muscle and sinew, small hands, bitten nails. From Wordnik.com. [Let Me Go] Reference
Vainly Gabriel strained every sinew to overtake the coach. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Roanne had an eye for design; she could turn shadows to sinew. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream Lay In Wait] Reference
Excitement is the backbone and muscle and sinew of our beings. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
Then she remembered some bits of deer sinew that were in the lodge. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference
Then they threaded the sinew through the holes in an "over-and-over seam.". From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
The sinew of the insurrection was this honest resentment of fancied injury. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
You, non-commissioned officers, you are the sinew and the muscle of the corps. From Wordnik.com. [Hanks, Spielberg Strike Out For 'The Pacific'] Reference
Weeping sinew sometimes interferes with some of the finer movements of the hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
And he's lost a lot of weight for the film, trimming himself down to muscle and sinew. From Wordnik.com. ['The American': An Abstract, Angst-Filled Art Thriller] Reference
My limbs are connected to me by sinew and tissue, the synapses in my brain control them. From Wordnik.com. [Packing, Driving, and the Meaning of Everything.] Reference
He brought his long bow to his face and placed the great jagged arrow against the sinew. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
All the children learned to prepare sinew and to shred the fibers with a jagged flint comb. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
The man is an animal - a mean, misogynistic machine made of blood and sinew and you know it. From Wordnik.com. [Beast] Reference
He turned suddenly, plunging his right arm through the ice, sinew in his shoulder straining. From Wordnik.com. [The Snow Child and the Fiendish Lover] Reference
And the other team arrives, strapping young boxing uniforms stretched over muscles and sinew. From Wordnik.com. [Softball Diamond Produces More Than Just a Game] Reference
For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Take the white meat from a large, young, uncooked chicken, and remove all skin, fat, and sinew. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
Charles's affairs were indeed rapidly declining; money, the principal sinew of war, was wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
It was a beautiful bow with a sinew string and wrapped in the middle and at the ends with sinews. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
The trap seemed only to close more tightly, cutting through fur and sinew, staining the ground red. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Gulp cloud; fling a jet-trail round your neck like a feather boa, toss every bone and sinew to the plunge. From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke] Reference
And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Black Snake is said to have been a small bean-shaped pebble suspended round his neck by a cord of moose sinew. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
They clean, stretch, brush, polish, until every feather or hair, until every muscle and sinew is in fit condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
When Vietnam looks at China, it sees a tiger of a different sort: a mass of sinew, fang and claw, ready to pounce. From Wordnik.com. [A New 'Anti-China Club'?] Reference
Eagle, with his bow six feet long, made from the mountain ram's horn, and bound with glue and sinew from the sheep's neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
Take four ounces of chicken, free from skin and sinew; pound it until quite smooth; the more it is pounded the better it is. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
I walk into the violent metal-like sinew of the land, and through it until I, UgöEcho, reach at last the sweet bleakness of the land. From Wordnik.com. [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference
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