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adjective

Sinewy adj.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews. "The sinewy thread my brain lets fall."

Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax. "A man whose words... were so close and sinewy."

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Etymology of 'Sinewy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sinewy" Quotes from Famous Books

... on his brow and his cheeks, like the marks of the chisel on the granite, made him venerable without telling his age. His brown and wrinkled neck was joined to his powerful shoulders by gaunt but still powerful muscles, and a network of sinewy veins showed upon his hands, which did not tremble as old men's hands generally do. A soul more energetic than a human soul vivified his body, and on his face shone in the shadow a strange light. It seemed like the reflection of ...

— The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 - The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt • Theophile Gautier

... the farmer growled, eying the group distrustfully with his small gray eyes under pent-house brows. He was short of stature, sinewy, and grizzled as to head ...

— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben

... and powerful men, jet black in skin, with lines of red and white paint on their faces, giving a ghastly and wild appearance to them. On their shoulders were skins of lions and other wild animals. They carried short bows, and heavy clubs studded with iron. By them were the Bedouin cavalry, light, sinewy men, brown as berries, with white turbans and garments. Near these were the cavalry from Syria and the plains of Assyria—wild horsemen with semi-barbarous armour and scarlet trappings. Here were the solid lines of ...

— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty

... came, and I saw my river tawny, sinewy, gaunt—a half-starved lion. The long dry bars were like the protruding ribs of the beast when the prey is scarce, and the ropy main current was like the lean, terrible muscles ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... tall and sinewy, with a seamed and scarred face, a map of many battles with the elements, the wild animals of mountain and plain, and ...

— Ted Strong's Motor Car • Edward C. Taylor

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