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sinews
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
