sinew
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Sinew, flesh and bone appear impressively tactile, and contrasts between light and shadow are strong.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2019
A version of this review appears in print on February 14, 2014, on page C27 of the with the headline: Global Citizens, Bound by Soul and Sinew .
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2014
To conclude, what can we say in this world is profitable where Husbandry is wanting, it being the great Nerue and Sinew which houldeth together all the ioynts of a Monarchie?
From The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Markham, Gervase
Newspapers.—Scotland is the Sinew of the British Empire. ow active and intellectual life in Scotland seems, in comparison with the petty and monotonous existence led by the dwellers in Provincial France!
From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max
Their Bite is venomous, if not speedily remedied; especially, if the Wound be in a Vein, Nerve, Tendon, or Sinew; when it is very difficult to cure.
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