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."

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How fare, this many a day, The stubborn thews and ageless heart of Floyd?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

Nor does this companionship of good wives, which enables men to gain "in sweetness and in moral height," cause them in the least degree to lose "the wrestling thews which throw the world."

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John