14 Metaphors for muscled

If, however, the contractions are too rapid, the muscles become exhausted and fatigue results.

I felt the fierce beat of my heart, and then every muscle and nerve became steel.

He noted the catlike grace of the horse in moving, as if his muscles were steel springs; and he noted also that the long ride had scarcely stained the glossy hide with sweatwhile the piebald reeked with the labour.

There was no more response than if he were clay, than if his muscles were the muscles of another man.

Two important muscles, the temporal, near the temples, and the masseter, or chewing muscle, are the chief agents in moving the lower jaw.

" The face of the valet had responded to the Alderman's enumeration of the evils that would attend so ill-judged a step in his niece, as faithfully as if each muscle had been a mirror, to reflect the contortions of one suffering under the malady of the sea.

But he is without the alert and springy step of the old Oscar, whose muscles remained taut and elastic almost to his dying day.

This also applies to the pastures where the grass grows as high as the crops; thus the cattle become extraordinarily fat, but their flesh loses its flavour; their muscles become flabby, and they are, so to say, watery.

Passing to the lower extremity, the thigh muscles are the largest and the most powerful in the body.

That muscle is a good thing to have but not necessary to the successful engineer.

Madame Dusson, who is Dutch-built, and whose muscles are pleasure-proof, came with her; there were besides, Lady Mary Coke, Lord and Lady Holdernesse, the Duke and Duchess of Grafton, Lord Hertford, Lord Villiers, Offley, Messieurs de Fleury, D'Eon, et Duclos.

Kate had such pretty hands; long taper fingers, rounded to the tiniest rosy points; no dimples, but full muscles, firm and exquisitely moulded; and the dainty way in which she handled her men was half the game to me;I lost it; I played wretchedly.

The pale and weary invalid may gain flesh and color with every lesson, but the bright and healthy pupil, whose muscles are like iron, whose heart and lungs are in perfect order, can ride for hours without weariness, and double her strength in a comparatively short time.

Again a primal impulse was suppressed, though his muscles were like whipcords.

14 Metaphors for  muscled