She's all wire and whipcord, your She-Wolf, Poleski. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
Where Sapphire was soft and lush, she was muscle and whipcord. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
She felt all whipcord and whalebone, every nerve fiber aflame. From Wordnik.com. [Achille's Choice]
A mass of whipcord muscle, it can be made rigid, or flexible, at will. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
He'd always been lean-but now he was whipcord and bone and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Promise]
The Wing Rider shrugged, his whipcord-tough body length - ening as he stretched. From Wordnik.com. [Ilse Witch]
The lash, however, was curled upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. From Wordnik.com. [Sole Music] Reference
He was tall and slender, but his movements spoke of whipcord strength and a sure confidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
Covert -- A twill-woven cloth sometimes with full face, sometimes sheared to imitate whipcord. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
It was as soft as satin, but beneath the quivering skin she could feel the whipcord muscles rolling. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
The muscles were like whipcord now, tensed under his hand so that he had to tighten his grip to hold them. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
“Yes, mother,” says he, with the whipcord in his mouth, and proceeding to wind up his sportive engine. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
He'd inherited his father's whipcord leanness, as well as the elder Ian's sense of humor-and his toughness. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Sitting to Anna's right, Delor was whipcord thin, with black eyes that glittered beneath balding brown hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Soprano Sorceress]
Sir Mulberry with an oath; ‘but it shall be something very near it if whipcord cuts and bludgeons bruise.’. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
She was hard, hard as whipcord, hard as tempered steel and Soldier's Boy had known that about her all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
It needed some strength to keep the position for long, but the muscles of his arms and legs were like whipcord. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
Tarma was always thin, but as this campaign had stretched on and on, she'd become nothing but whipcord over bone. From Wordnik.com. [Oathbreaker]
There were feathers and bristles, horns and tusks, noses like whipcord, and chins so long that they looked like beards. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Chair]
The old cowpoke was splendidly dressed in a maroon satin shirt and white whipcord breeches tucked into shiny new boots. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
"Did he just say what I think he said?" he demanded, his whipcord body taut as he bounced on his toes, ready for battle. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Lawman]
There was nothing to suggest softness or yielding; she was hard, lithe, and every bit a warrior, all muscle and whipcord. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
'There is Sir Edmund's daughter,' she said slyly and rolled over so that she lay along the length of his hard, whipcord body. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
And Wickersham, who had not seen his fiance in a month, had started toward them, stiffly erect in his immaculate whipcord habit. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
He looked down at the man, whose diminutive stature nevertheless conveyed a great deal of whipcord strength and masculine authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
The sight of the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]
His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]
I have seen a clever man keep some of the best beasts always in view of the buyers, a stick with a whipcord being used for the purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
His wrists and neck were whipcord thin, and they disappeared into a disreputable, ragged hunting jacket that might once have been khaki. From Wordnik.com. [License Invoked]
He was immaculately dressed in whipcord trousers, boots, battle jacket, two ivory-handled pistols and a helmet polished to a high sheen. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: Jeffers)] Reference
The last sentence had hardly been hissed out by the gypsy when he took from his pocket a long, thin coil of whipcord, which he entangled in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
But young McMurtry fought with a gaiety that exasperated the older man, and most of the time his whipcord quickness kept him out of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
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