thews

These hills, if we have to mount them, shall sorely try the thews of horse and man.

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

That angels were, moreover, supposed to possess thews and sinews, we find from Gen. xxxii.

The sufferer took a strange liking to this long-dreaded relation, this man of iron frame and thews.

And 'tis better a brain than thews and sinews, gold or lands, seeing that it has all these at command when I need them.