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    1. with his shape and his sinew


    2. sinew and sweat in the back of a truck,


    3. They have a latent talent for martial activities and their physical bodies seem to be constructed of brass and leather rather than sinew and skin


    4. Danny felt a deep panic spread through every muscle and sinew infecting his mind with despair


    5. obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass; 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to


    6. They caught them with dipnets made from sinew, although some were experimenting with a pole with iron tines at the end


    7. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep, and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there, and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    8. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank


    9. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which


    10. Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank

    11. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands to pasture them for their period each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming the eagles the vultures the kites the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    12. With every sinew straining, the noble horse took off only a few feet ahead of the herd


    13. is the sinew and steel of men’s minds, wits,


    14. with every sinew in his body


    15. The Cimmerian grasped it with both hands, and with legs braced and the muscles standing out on his arms and back in straining knots, he heaved it above his head and cast it from him, exerting every ounce of nerve and sinew


    16. He struck downward with all the strength of both arms, driving the long poniard blade to the hilt in flesh, sinew and bone


    17. It had a sinew body, taking cautious steps and sniffing the ground


    18. beaded necklaces, bearing the sinew string still in perfect


    19. sinew, but even this dense matter is affected by the quality of our


    20. the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip,

    21. sinew of the hip


    22. In desperation she grasped his muscular arm and felt his strength—arms of steel, but the power of sinew wouldn’t save them now


    23. covered his face with the girl’s veil, but the huge expanse of muscle and sinew on show was still


    24. Zar lashed out a taloned hand, tearing out the throat and leaning his head back to swallow it whole, and the primes fell onto their bloodfeast with a renewed voracity, shredding and tearing away the meat and the sinew, stripping the bones of marrow and spitting out the broken shards


    25. His veins were bulging, and each sinew was taut


    26. It was the millionth of a second that Zac needed to stab upwards, the stake hitting its mark with a sickening thud as it tore through flesh and sinew until it rammed home into Alistair's heart


    27. and recognized the note that was bound to the handle with sinew


    28. leaving bone, sinew, and a foot with fi ve horrid toes


    29. Sinew: That which unites a muscle to a bone


    30. In this, he should split all his spirits, energies, his blood, nerve and sinew into two exactly

    31. Darren picked her up from behind and lifted her high, his loss lending strength to his sinew


    32. thighs and posteriors with that stiff sinew of his, which hit them with a


    33. Her upper body is lovely and voluptuous, encased in a gruesome corset of bone and sinew


    34. The strategic advantages were obvious, and the sheer number of men under his command was another argument in favor of straining every sinew to preserve it


    35. As the tide had reached its highest point, all four ships had manned their capstans simultaneously, their crews heaving at the capstan bars with every scrap of muscle and sinew they possessed in an effort to drag Bruhstair’s ship bodily out of the mud


    36. “You know, the girls,” he probed with a snide smirk, curling his tongue around the “l,” dragging it out like a sinew found in an undercooked chicken


    37. Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee


    38. It whittled a person down until they were nothing but reflexes and sinew


    39. And by means of that mysterious indefinable bond which maintains throughout an army one and the same temper, known as ‘the spirit of the army,’ and which constitutes the sinew of war, Kutuzov’s words, his order for a battle next day, immediately became known from one end of the army to the other


    40. “If we are His stuffs, alive, then we sinew His arm, thrust out to stop that light-year beast

    41. He sensed the expansion of his fingernails, the adjustments of his cells, the profusion of his hair, the multiplication of his bones and sinew, the grooving of the soft pale wax of his brain


    42. “They make these of sinew and horn glued together, layer by thin layer,” he explained to Rob


    43. “I have tried with every sinew and I have failed


    44. The back of his short neck was as a single lump of iron sinew which bulged beyond the base of his skull, so that his head seemed like a small ball protruding from a huge mountain of flesh


    45. And by means of that mysterious indefinable bond which maintains throughout an army one and the same temper, known as “the spirit of the army,” and which constitutes the sinew of war, Kutúzov’s words, his order for a battle next day, immediately became known from one end of the army to the other


    46. What effect has it had upon our fisheries, which were so nobly and successfully contended for by the American Commissioners who settled the Treaty of 1783; which for a time suspended that Treaty; and which, both the duplicity and intrigue of France and the interest of England strove to deprive us of—of our fisheries, which were then considered, and still ought to be considered, as a main sinew of our strength, and a nursery for our seamen?


    1. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it


    1. the stiff sinews of the night


    2. ” Belle listened, as Kaitlyn continued, “I have forced not merely my nerves and sinews to do my bidding, but I have challenged my every thought and emotion in the effort to purge what silliness and inanity might yet remain in me


    3. Sharp stones served them for knives and hatchets to cut with; fish bones, and the hard sinews of certain animals, served them with needles to sew with; and these seem to have been their principal instruments of trade


    4. Eze 37:8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them


    5. Does this then contradict what we have learned about the body of Jesus and the bones of the dead which will be covered with sinews, flesh and spirit? No, not in the slightest! Jesus’s resurrected body had flesh and bones and He even ate food after his resurrection, but it was not the same flesh as we have on our bodies now


    6. 11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and has fenced me with bones and sinews


    7. 17 He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his stones are wrapped together


    8. To put this in perspective we can compare it to an average babies weight at birth which is ± 3kilograms and remember, these bones we are referring to here are totally dehydrated, not one drop of moisture, no flesh, sinews, or any other bodily fluids – they are totally dried out bones!


    9. will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you


    10. the sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them

    11. body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth


    12. 13 And what is most wonderful though an old man though the labours of his body were now spent and his fibres were relaxed and his sinews worn out he recovered youth


    13. “It is not moneys that are the sinews of fortune; it


    14. auguries of hope, but also cuts the sinews and spur


    15. The eyes of the stone-colored creatures reflected the light of The Watcher’s torch in various hues as the sinews of their large irises dilated with anger


    16. Could twist the sinews of thy heart?


    17. Before Melanie knew what she was doing, she had reached her arms around him and pulled herself up to his chest, her own hard nipples pressing into the straining sinews of his flesh


    18. The code is distinct from laws, emotions are written on the code to express taste in the Being and to be one of the sinews of the soul to gain an access over the spirit in a law that locks man to his desire


    19. The muscles have been fixed on the bones from which there have been made holes for the brain, the eyes, the ears and the mouth, cavity for the heart and the lungs, holders for the intestines, and centers for the veins and the sinews


    20. There was a horrific tearing of flesh; Silas could see sinews and a large artery where the skin was torn away

    21. Rather her predicament on the one hand made her thinking crystal clear yet on the other meant she had difficulty controlling the nerves that controlled the sinews and muscles


    22. "Gentlemen, regardless of the breadth of your shoulders, the girth of your chest, the great sinews of your arms, I hereupon defy you to take a certain action and wager that not one of you will take up the challenge


    23. Until humans strung them along sinews, and wore them around their necks; to show their status and power so everyone they met would fear them


    24. And this quality is very useful in suggesting such things as joints and sinews, rocks, hard ground, or gnarled tree-trunks, &c


    25. Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!


    26. I present it to you, not that you may kiss it, but that you may observe the contexture of the sinews, the close network of the muscles, the breadth and capacity of the veins, whence you may infer what must be the strength of the arm that has such a hand


    27. At length, the toughened sinews of the white man prevailed over the less practiced limbs of the native


    28. "The sinews and bones of a man carry me through it all," said the hunter, surveying his muscular limbs with a simplicity that betrayed the honest pleasure the compliment afforded him; "there are larger and heavier men to be found in the settlements, but you might travel many days in a city before you could meet one able to walk fifty miles without stopping to take breath, or who has kept the hounds within hearing during a chase of hours


    29. The tomahawk that he had loosened in his belt for the sake of ease, was even suffered to fall from its usual situation to the ground, and his form seemed to sink, like that of a man whose nerves and sinews were suffered to relax for the purpose of rest


    30. Throwing a last and lingering glance at the distant canoes, he laid aside his rifle, and, relieving the wearied Duncan, resumed the paddle, which he wielded with sinews that never tired

    31. Jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger


    32. In those waxworks in Henry street I myself saw some Aztecs, as they are called, sitting bowlegged, they couldn't straighten their legs if you paid them because the muscles here, you see, he proceeded, indicating on his companion the brief outline of the sinews or whatever you like to call them behind the right knee, were utterly powerless from sitting that way so long cramped up, being adored as gods


    33. Joe didn’t know what was happening either, except that he hurt as he’d never hurt in a boat before—hot knives slipped into the sinews of his arms and legs and sliced across his broad back with each stroke; every desperate breath seared his lungs


    34. The muscles stood up sharply under the network of sinews, covered with this delicate, mobile skin, soft as satin, and they were hard a bone


    35. The Jihad’s voracious appetite for the supplies which truly were the sinews of war had seen to that, and with winter still gripping northern Howard and Haven, a huge percentage of that traffic was passing through the Gulf of Dohlar’s eastern ports


    36. No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will


    37. It was they, these soldiers- wounded and unwounded- it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder


    38. With the sinews of his neck standing out defiantly he bellowed upward at the cliff holes


    39. John till my sinews ache, I shall satisfy him—to the finest central point and farthest outward circle of his expectations


    40. The hamstring and the main sinews of the legs—especially of the larger animals—can be dried and used as thread to stitch hides together for shelter and clothing

    41. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick


    42. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last mite but a Fast-Fish? What is yonder undetected villain's marble mansion with a door-plate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish? What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish? What is the Archbishop of Savesoul's income of L100,000 seized from the scant bread and cheese of hundreds of thousands of broken-backed laborers (all sure of heaven without any of Savesoul's help) what is that globular L100,000 but a Fast-Fish? What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession the whole of the law?


    43. "This is all soft food, so I will eat it later; let me first start on these sinews of the bow


    44. Not her own sinews


    45. It was they, these soldiers—wounded and unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder


    46. But if it has not been entirely efficacious as a measure of coercion, it has been particularly serviceable in many instances—by keeping us out of war, which is at all times to be deprecated by civilized men, by preserving our citizens from becoming victims of British tyranny on board their war ships, and securing an immense amount of American property that was sailing on the ocean, supposed to amount in value to between sixty and a hundred millions of dollars, the principal part of which would inevitably have fallen into the voracious jaws of the monster of the deep, or into the iron grasp of the tyrant Napoleon—by which, if we are involved in war, we have preserved the leading sinews, wealth; and above all, for preventing us from becoming tributary to those piratical depredators, whose inevitable determination is to monopolize the whole trade of the world, by which they rob us of our inherent rights


    47. The rich plunder of your inoffensive and enlarged commerce, must inevitably have gone to swell the coffers which are to support the sinews of war against you


    48. Our tonnage and seamen, then—the sinews of naval power—are wounded by our own measures, to a considerable degree


    49. The steps which have been taken preparatory to a dissolution of the present bank, it is said, occasion much embarrassment, and threaten with ruin many of our citizens; if the present capital of ten millions can thus affect society, who will pretend to accumulate present evils, or risk entailing misery on posterity, solely for the purpose of a temporary gain to the Government? In this question Pennsylvania is deeply concerned; she has several millions of dollars invested in her banks; this to her is a valuable source of revenue; upon this may she predicate much of her future prosperity; hence will she derive the funds requisite for future internal improvements; but if you fill up the blanks in this section with a considerable sum, all these prospects will be blasted forever; you will thereby destroy the tree from whose ramifications were to emanate the blessings of peace and the sinews of war


    50. But grant for a moment, for mere argument's sake, that in Canada you touched the sinews of her strength, instead of removing a clog upon her resources—an encumbrance, but one, which, from a spirit of honor, she will vigorously defend


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    Synonyms for "sinew"

    brawn brawniness heftiness muscle muscularity sinew tendon

    "sinew" definitions

    a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment


    possessing muscular strength