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

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

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

How fare, this many a day, The stubborn thews and ageless heart of Floyd?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

"With Hugh it is a case of thews and brawn," he said.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)