thews
Example Sentences
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Neither his great brain nor his little thews could prevail to make the yellow rivets sink to its place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surveyor W. J. Ma thews of Lloyds: "Two of the Rex's three turbodynamos were ready early this morning and the third was put in operation about 6 a. m. only to break down again."
From Time Magazine Archive
What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, with a contented heart I welcomed the touch of the wing of sleep upon my eyelids, and turned over to compose my tired thews for recuperative repose against the fatigues of the morrow.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
I am subjectively certain that some ancestor of mine with prognathous jaw, flat forehead and enormous thews, paddled over the sea that once filled these plains and roamed over the far-separated hill-tracks.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
