sinew
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Sinew, flesh and bone appear impressively tactile, and contrasts between light and shadow are strong.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2019
A version of this review appears in print on February 14, 2014, on page C27 of the with the headline: Global Citizens, Bound by Soul and Sinew .
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2014
Sinew and bone she drew them; steel-thewed—and the weaklings shrank— Grim-wrought of granite and iron were the men of her foremost rank.
From The California Birthday Book by Various
According to the Rocky Mountain Indian, it is called the Sinew River.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander
Sinew, sin′ū, n. that which joins a muscle to a bone, a tendon: muscle, nerve: that which supplies vigour.—v.t. to bind as by sinews: to strengthen.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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