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

Newspapers.—Scotland is the Sinew of the British Empire. ow active and intellectual life in Scotland seems, in comparison with the petty and monotonous existence led by the dwellers in Provincial France!

From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max

To conclude, what can we say in this world is profitable where Husbandry is wanting, it being the great Nerue and Sinew which houldeth together all the ioynts of a Monarchie?

From The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Markham, Gervase

Sinew, a tendon; that which unites a muscle to a bone.

From A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. by Anonymous