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brawny
1. The brawny women’s presence was a little disconcerting, but was tolerated by all present as the queen’s safety came first
2. Two of the brawny men headed for Amaranthe, two for Books
3. My ―favorite‖ staple is the one where a cloddish, brawny type is properly set down and summarily vanquished with relative ease by an unassuming ―cutie‖ ready, willing and able of taking on all comers who step out of line
4. Mike knew many men like that, South Boston, Irish longshoremen and for Mike they filled out the picture of William: surely, his father would be lyrical and of course, brawny; he would be a man after a day’s work to hoist a cold beer with his mates in a neighborhood tavern
5. Six-foot, brawny Dave was engaged to a girl on shore, with whom he was making big plans for a round-the-world sail
6. ” It was the deep voice of the big man, who stood with his brawny arms crossed over his chest
7. 'Bend to it, dogs!' roared Tito with a passionate gesture of his brawny fist
8. He sprang, knocked the governor sprawling with a savage blow of his knife-hilt, swept up the astounded Devi in one brawny arm and leaped for the window
9. The leap through the window to the parapet, the mad race across battlements and roofs when the fear of falling froze her, the reckless descent of a rope bound to a merlon—he went down almost at a run, his captive folded limply over his brawny shoulder—all this was a befuddled tangle in the Devi's mind
10. Brawny arms swung the dead man over the rail, and a dozen fins cut the water as he sank
11. He blundered into the Cimmerian as the latter stopped dead, and rebounded from his brawny shoulders as though from an iron statue
12. In the brief instant that was allowed him he realized with a surge of panic the strength of his attacker, against which his own brawny thews were helpless
13. Argos was at peace; laden ox-wains rumbled along the road, and men with bare, brown, brawny arms toiled in orchards and fields that smiled away under the branches of the roadside trees
14. He was a brawny man who could probably give Houston a run for his
15. She was inflicting painful, but hardly damaging injury on her two brawny attackers
16. “Oh, by the way, Dave,” Wickland called out after him, prompting the brawny man to pause and swivel slightly, “this goes without saying, but keep those damn reporters out of here
17. “What can I do for you, brother?” the brawny, clean-cut man said as he removed a shot glass from under the bar
18. A uniformed policeman came up to her then, a brawny, red-faced man with streaks of gray in his dark-brown hair
19. He put away his gun, but was accompanied by two brawny officers with guns at their sides when he went inside
20. quickly glanced behind him a big brawny African inmate was
21. The brawny men obeyed, the muscles on their muscles flexing everywhere, even with such a simple action as coming to the ground
22. accentuated his brawny body
23. In fact, he was a felon like no other and instantly recognizable by his great height, heavy, brawny body, and powerful arms
24. and this is how his brawny hands grasped the rock
25. and after quickly grabbing his trident with his brawny hands
26. The brawny, ebony-skinned man caught what Eddie was saying and lowered his eyes in shame, disappointed, after all these years, at having let the old man down
27. ” The brawny nurse tugged at Greg’s thread-bare shirt until he was on his feet
28. So was bald and brawny Rodriguez, though a lot more experienced and with a healthy dose of distrust in his brown eyes
29. The front of his shirt bunched up in Don’s brawny paw, the flame still held aloft in the other hand
30. Because Olin had never seen the man in his life he was slightly taken aback that the brawny, honest appearing, late middle-aged man knew his name
31. Lennox placed a brawny mitt on her shoulder with a kind smile that reached his grey eyes
32. Hearing this Upaya’s older brother raised his four brawny arms, holding different
33. She pushed the images away of this horrible brawny boy before her, his hands upon her body
34. Arthur played a man of the Gododdin, a brawny man who looked like a wrestler
35. "It's man food," Ronnie said, "The Scottish Highlanders of old, big brawny men that
36. The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes,
37. love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
38. So that in all the towns about they were found wearing his long wadded merino overcoat and black frock-coat, whose buttoned cuffs slightly covered his brawny hands—very beautiful hands, and that never knew gloves, as though to be more ready to plunge into suffering
39. At that minute a brawny fellow with his shirt-sleeves rolled up and his trousers tight over his haunches intervened
40. Within reach of his arm was the brawny shoulder of a gigantic Indian, whose deep and authoritative voice appeared to give directions to the proceedings of his fellows
41. "I would I had a thousand men, of brawny limbs and quick eyes, that feared death as little as you! I'd send them jabbering Frenchers back into their den again, afore the week was ended, howling like so many fettered hounds or hungry wolves
42. As he awaited the fatal signal he tested the edge of his horrible weapon by honing it upon his brawny forearm or decapitated in rapid succession a flock of sheep which had been provided by the admirers of his fell but necessary office
43. He said and then lifted he in his rude great brawny strengthy hands the medher of dark strong foamy ale and, uttering his tribal slogan Lamh Dearg Abu , he drank to the undoing of his foes, a race of mighty valorous heroes, rulers of the waves, who sit on thrones of alabaster silent as the deathless gods
44. Elfric was in the yard, his brawny body bent over a
45. He leaned forward and kissed me again and I kissed him back with more fervor than I had before, and we stood there kissing and kissing between his tent and his car with the corn and the flowers and the stars and the moon all around us, and it felt like the nicest thing in the world, my hands running slowly up into his curly hair and down over his thick shoulders and along his strong arms and around to his brawny back, holding his gorgeous male body against mine
46. They seemed, as a rule, self-made, rough hewn, wild, native, brawny, simple, and perhaps, in the eyes of some, a bit coarse; their eastern counterparts seemed, as a rule, well bred, sophisticated, moneyed, refined, and perhaps, in their own eyes at least, a bit superior
47. My friend had listened with amused surprise to this long speech, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point being driven home by the slapping of a brawny hand upon the speaker's knee
48. But another man, sunburned and brawny, hefted a pick and said, “There’s only two of them
49. “Oh, we’ll tell her, ser,” promised the brawny man, still clutching his pick
50. He needed the help of a brawny squire to get onto his horse, though, and the way his head was always turning as he rode suggested that Ser Maynard had been right about his eye