thews

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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

Now he began to feel that in him, the thews of a Titan were forestallingly cut by the scissors of Fate.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Throngs watch that eye of Mars, Apollo's grace, The thews of Hercules, in cruel hope That ten may fall before him ere he falls.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese