loins

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Loins are girded, leashes are strained at, die are cast, lights appear at the end of tunnels and wounds are rubbed with salt.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2010

From the Knee it descends to the Foot, or mounts to the Hip, to the Loins, the Shoulder-blades, Elbow, Wrist, the Nape of the Neck, and frequently is felt in the intermediate Parts.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Sir Loins and rumps of beef offend my eyes, Pleas'd with frogs fricasseed, and coxcomb-pies.

From The Man of Taste by Bramston, James

I have seen a Patient, under the most acute Pains of the Loins, of the Hips, and of one Knee, put into one.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Now slavery's last manacle I slip, Now for the last time feel the wealing whip; Like Israel at the Passover I stand, Loins girded for the desert, staff in hand.

From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)