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sinews

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From dawn to breakfast time all hands busy slinging shells—modern war sinews—piles of them—aboard.

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

The Girondists were now helpless, their sinews of power were cut, and the struggle was virtually over.

In those glooms the sinews of mental energy wither with dying hope.

The Pope smiled when he saw his mighty frame and sinews of iron—a direful foe of the infidels!

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

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

So they made winter garments by sewing skins together with sinews or plant fibers.

Take the meat from a cold fowl and pound it in a mortar, after removing the skin and sinews.

Bone a pheasant, cut off the legs and press what is left of the leg inside, and cut away any sinews.

Take a cold pheasant and pick the meat from it; remove the skin and sinews, and pound the flesh in a mortar to a smooth paste.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985