thews
Example Sentences
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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
What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clovis was strongly built, the thews and broad shoulders of Phebus had ofttimes been a subject for sport--and there the two sat like waxen effigies, both refusing to be roused.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
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
