sinews

“From up close the sinews and folds of muscle seemed to conceal a mysterious code,” he muses.

From dawn to breakfast time all hands busy slinging shells—modern war sinews—piles of them—aboard.

But our forebears were composed of less delicate nerves and tougher thews and sinews than ourselves.

The Girondists were now helpless, their sinews of power were cut, and the struggle was virtually over.

In those glooms the sinews of mental energy wither with dying hope.

The Pope smiled when he saw his mighty frame and sinews of iron—a direful foe of the infidels!