thews

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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."

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Neither his great brain nor his little thews could prevail to make the yellow rivets sink to its place.

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What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed.

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At twenty he was a braw, brown-haired, brown-eyed lad of six feet two inches in stature, straight and upright, and with the thews and sinews of an ox.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

Thus, in the last resort, the correctness of a doctrine is, as we have frequently remarked in previous pages, proved by thews and sinews—not by brains.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas