16 adjectives to describe sinew

Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily.

He would He stretched out his long arm to its full extent behind him, gave one mighty overarm sweep, and with all the crackling strength of his mighty sinews, hurled the grenade.

"Look," continued the Doctor, "at this bony wrist, and the strained sinews of the instep!

Their bodies, though lean, are hardy and strong, with broad chests, and square high shoulders, strong, well knit joints and firm sinews, thick and large thighs, with short legs, so that, being equal to us in stature, what they want in their legs is supplied in the upper part of their bodies.

These made his little farm, as large to him and to his octogenarian sinews and ambitions as was the Tiptree Estate to Alderman Mechi.

From a skein of finely twisted threads of silvery sinews my mother pulled out a single one.

Urged to their speed, his weak deluded foes Soon flag fatigued; strained to excess each nerve, 10 Each slackened sinew fails; they pant, they foam; Then o'er the lawn he bounds, o'er the high hills Stretches secure, and leaves the scattered crowd To puzzle in the distant vale below.

He was a mountaineer of Vermonta man of steely sinews that took well to the grip of a sword.

The ease with which they learn a metrical piece by rote, and the readiness with which they acquire a tune to it, is surprising, and as the exhibition of such attainments forms a striking sinew, in many cases little else is taught them.

His flesh was about as black as his feathers and full of tough and bony sinews.

Nicholas, it seemed, had given him a noose made of twisted sinew, and showed how it worked in a running loop.

" "Thy limbs are uncoveredthy bosom barethy sinews feeblego to; thou art ill advised to interrupt the pleasures of the nobles by this levity.

He had used the grizzly skin, hanging it with unbreakable sinew, and fashioning it in such a manner that folds of the hide could be turned over her on cold nights.

Combining with a system of fortifications upon the shores themselves, commenced about the same time under the auspices of my immediate predecessor, and hitherto systematically pursued, it has placed in our possession the most effective sinews of war and has left us at once an example and a lesson from which our own duties may be inferred.

Around there were hills like uncouth monsters, swathed in ice, holding up the soggy sky; shivering pine-forests; unmeaning, dreary flats; and the Cheat, coiled about the frozen sinews of the hills, limp and cold, like a cord tying a dead man's jaws.

His shoulders were rounded with the heavy pack of knotted sinews they carried.

16 adjectives to describe  sinew