He stands, with massive throat and thews of steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference

Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jericho Road] Reference

Behind his fore-arm; till his thews were stretched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

What a pull of work: heavens, what thews and sinews!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

In the iron of my entrails, in my thews of shrunken steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference

Perhaps it would relish the harder thews of a desert man. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Witch Shall Be Born]

Though your voice may sound loud and your thews look immense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891] Reference

He felt his age in laboring lungs, aching thews, and pounding heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

A gentleman like me lacks the thews for such crude, physical efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

This time its lunge was too lightning-quick for any human thews to avoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Wanderer]

His manner was slightly affected, but the thews under his silks were steely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

But in this spiritual contest, the thews and sinews of the soul are made strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

Then we'd swing on saplings, through the cool morning wind, until our thews are dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape] Reference

But he was dealing with one whose thews were nerved to the quickness of a jungle cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Dragon]

"Your thews and sinews justify me perfectly -- and so, I must say, does your manner of speech.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

Frankenstein, ready made, perfect in thews and sinews, perfect also in many of its nobler parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

Not thews and sinews; otherwise pure democracy would be the only form of polity that could exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Government] Reference

The knotted coil of thews and sinews looks like the magnificent exaggerations of antique sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference

Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

At the same time he has strengthened his thews and sinews for whatever may face him on the path ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Furrows] Reference

Those eyes were never dimmed by city lights; those thews were never softened by life amid marble walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

Then, as his great thews began to swell, he had been sold as an apprentice gladiator to the arenas of Argos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]

Conan was well over six feet tall, and his threadbare tunic failed to mask the hard lines of his mighty thews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]

None could find fault with their thews and sinews, and as for their spirit, it is for us to see it does not fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyropaedia] Reference

A veritable giant, flaxen-haired and massive of thews, just like thousands more German men he had known-Burgundus!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

He tried to calculate the time he had left to find water, the time before the strength of his thews began to fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

Tough and sharp-pointed, a wooden sword was no insignificant weapon, wielded by the thews and sinews of a Triboulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

But he had never been pitted against a blade wielded by thews bred in the wild lands beyond the borders of civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian The chance for life had lent fresh vigor and resilience to the Cimmerian's steely thews.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

Our author, though his thews and sinews are stalwart, is yet hardly cast in the mould to indicate such excessive vitality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

This, then, was the end of the trail -- for what human being could withstand the fury of that hairy mountain of thews and ferocity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Freebooter]

She took it, wincing slightly at the bloodstains upon it, feeling a hint of the dynamic strength that lurked in the barbarian's thews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Freebooter]

Unless a man is a giant, unless he has the thews of a Hercules, he must be content either to lose his gift or to live without a heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference

She took it, wincing slightly at the blood-stains upon it, feeling a hint of the dynamic strength that lurked in the barbarian's thews.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

When he came to, he was in the strongest dungeon in the city, shackled to the wall with chains not even his barbaric thews could break.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]