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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He had no more regard for common laws of restraint than the majority of untamed brutes, when conscious, as in his case, of firm thews and active bulk.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

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