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sinewy
1. with thin sinewy fingers
2. She had touched all those sinewy strong muscles, and they had touched her
3. A white man, no matter how courageous and sinewy, would have been prone
4. Nipping at his legs, they sank their teeth into his sinewy shins, anchoring him in position
5. In the early morning with the moon now slanting toward the western sky, a dark sinewy shadow snaked across their path, sparkles of reflected moonlight dappled its darkness
6. In the early morning with the moon now slanting toward the western sky, a dark sinewy
7. His sinewy body pressed me closer to the well
8. His thin, sinewy body bent over me, and I looked deep into his calm, black-blue eyes
9. And then I bit him, my teeth slicing through layers of smoky skin and sinewy muscle, and down to that big artery with the name I always forgot
10. The mute beggar crouched in the courtyard, and there was none to see that the hands which held the severed head were quivering strongly—brown, sinewy hands, strangely incongruous with the bent body and filthy tatters
11. They were young men, but hard and sinewy, with a bearing that comes only to men rendered desperate by adversity
12. As Valerius started to follow Taramis across the square towards the palace, through a lane opened by the wildly cheering multitude, he felt a soft hand slipped timidly into his sinewy fingers and turned to receive the slender body of Ivga in his arms
13. In the soft darkness he stretched himself fully clad on the couch, his sinewy hand by instinct searching for and closing on the hilt of his broadsword
14. Jumping his shorter adversary the leathery bull rammed his good horn into the boar‘s shoulder and began to push, his lean sinewy shoulders straining like the tow rope on a tugboat
15. He stared out the window as the sheer curtains fluttered inward on the sinewy breath of the evil night
16. Her frame grew even thinner than it's normal sinewy condition, her hair began to grey, (although she was still a comparatively young woman), and her features became gaunt and hollowed
17. the sinewy sort that tasted of sagebrush like the deer they shoot on the
18. Carter stretched out his sinewy leg, side swiped the wheel of
19. He looped a sinewy arm around her shoulder for a moment, until she appeared to be more steady
20. His sinewy muscles flexed suddenly and there was a flash of sunlight across his makeshift harpoon blade
21. They're even more mangy and sinewy than starved hairlesses
22. The combination was salty and sinewy, and she could not wait to replace it with roast pork, duck and beef! Her mouth watered as she pictured mashed potatoes, wine and candles and wondered how she was going to explain herself to her family, her friends and Ahndray
23. She shuddered and stifled a scream with a tender ridge of sinewy shoulder muscle
24. The Job she saw so often was just as she remembered him after the divorce, an agile, sinewy, small man in the very prime of life, and she tried hard to imagine the change
25. His swarthy baldness complemented a sinewy pair of tanned arms
26. grey mingled with a red sinewy twist of muscle along the blackened
27. She was about two inches taller than me, so I put her height at about five foot seven, and was all curves but moved with a sinewy grace
28. We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
29. He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
30. His right hand (which seemed to me somewhat hairy and sinewy, a sign of great strength in its owner) lay on the side of his heart; but before I could put any question to Montesinos, he, seeing me gazing at the tomb in amazement, said to me,
31. At length one whose hair was beginning to be sprinkled with gray, but whose sinewy limbs and firm tread announced that he was still equal to the duties of manhood, advanced out of the gloom of a corner, whither he had probably posted himself to make his observations unseen, and spoke
32. I had stopped to look at the house as I passed; and its seared red brick walls, blocked windows, and strong green ivy clasping even the stacks of chimneys with its twigs and tendons, as if with sinewy old arms, had made up a rich attractive mystery, of which I was the hero
33. In the stories after the war, all the resistance heroes were dashing, sinewy types who could construct machine guns from paper clips
34. I was determined to remain present as I read, but was obliged to reread the second sentence of the first paragraph, a spiraling length of words journeying east on the tail of sinewy clouds
35. “Insight not already present in Saint Zherneau’s journal?” Maikel Staynair asked, his sinewy hands folded on the table in front of him
36. Understand?” The man had a wish-boned stance, like gravity was pulling him toward the ground by both legs, but his hands were muscled, sinewy, and they pressed into Trey’s shoulder
37. The motion of the small foot shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age
38. The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Vaska Denisov, and his whole short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he was only redder than usual
39. The sleeve of his coat kept slipping down and he always carefully rolled it up again with his left hand, as if it were most important that the sinewy white arm he was flourishing should be bare
40. His sleeves were rolled up and his sinewy, hairy, red hands with their short fingers deftly turned the ramrod
41. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck
42. In the hut an old woman was standing by the stove, with the sleeves rolled up over her thin, sinewy brown arms
43. The policeman began, with his thick, trembling fingers, clumsily to untie the tapes that fastened the shirt round the red, sinewy neck
44. Her neck, arms, and face were sinewy like a peasant's
45. In the hut there was a girl in a felt hat and short fur coat, sinewy, and with an ugly and unpleasant face, relieved, however, by her pleasant eyes and raised eyebrows
46. In their sunburnt, sinewy, weak hands, bared above the elbows, they carried a bucket of paint and incessantly cursed each other
47. He pulls off his sheepskin coat, drops his waistcoat and his shirt, and with prominent ribs, trembling and reeking with the odors of liquor, tobacco, and sweat, steps barefooted into the office, wondering what he shall do with his large sinewy hands
48. The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Váska Denísov, and his whole short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he was only redder than usual
49. Here a little association is working at the mowing; three peasants,—one an old man, the second his nephew, a young married man, and a shoemaker, a thin, sinewy man
50. Trembling, she raised herself in the bed and taking the Decurio's large, sinewy hands within her own, she murmured: "Be merciful! O hear my prayer, and kill me!"