thews
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What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Buck saw it start, infinitesimal as the time must have been from its inception to its execution—perhaps he felt the steel thews hardening under his hand—for he leaped backward simultaneously.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
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 Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
