Of an evening now, after sleep had settled on Kaviak's watchful eyes, the Boy worked at a pair of little snow-shoes, helped out by a ball of sinew he had got from Nicholas.

I looked at Shalah, who stood by the gate, every sinew in his body taut with expectation.

My joints were swollen with the bonds, and every sinew seemed as stiff as wire.

Then I stumbled, and the last power went out of will and sinew.

That fleshless hand, all speed of motion as it whipped out the gun from the nerve and sinew, became an incredible ghost with the holster and the long, heavy Colt danced and flashed at his fingertips as though it were a gilded shadow.

With an awl she pierced the buckskin, and skillfully threaded it with the white sinew.

It took many trials before I learned how to knot my sinew thread on the point of my finger, as I saw her do.

Quickly the young woman slips the beads on the silvery sinew thread, and works them into the pretty flower design.

Brain as well as sinew has its limitations and the night had been long and trying.

They've plenty of sinew, and as to their voice, I think about that you well know.

The white, fibrous cord, or band, by which a muscle is attached to a bone; a sinew.

By use of the strength that is in you, By wrestling of soul and of sinew The blessing of God you may gain.

The Comanches' bows are covered with sinew, much like those of the Apaches.

in the vale of years beneath, A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage; Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age.

His vigorous arm he tried before he flung, Braced all his nerves, and every sinew strung, Then with a tempest's whirl and wary eye Pursued his cast, and hurl'd the orb on high; The orb on high, tenacious of its course, 10 True to the mighty arm that gave it force, Far overleaps all bound, and joys to see Its ancient lord secure of victory: The theatre's green height and woody wall

Already he was almost near enough to leap, and the girl's young, strong body could be no defense against the hundred and fifty pounds of wire sinew and lightning muscle that constituted the wolf.

For all that his hundred and fifty pounds were, every ounce, lightning muscle and vibrant sinew, it was as if a gopher had waged war with a lynx.

It would supplement their supply of blankets; and if necessary it could be cut and sewed with threads of sinew into clothes.

He was an old bull, the monarch of his herd; he had ranged and mated and fought his rivals for nearly a score of years in the wild heart of Back There,and his flesh would be mostly sinew.

"Christian life," she wrote, "is not all contemplation and prayer; it is not all muscle and sinew.

He remained motionless, conscious of that sensation of intense tightness of nerve and sinew in which an overpressed mind expresses itself.

Five years after that did I tide at Birtwhistle's, and when I left had become cock myself, for I was wiry and as tough as whalebone, though I never ran to weight and sinew like my great predecessor.

One of them had seized him by the right leg, and was biting him cruelly in the sinew above the heel.

Their sheep-skin mantles, sewed together with threads of sinew, and rendered soft and pliable by friction, sufficed for a garment by day and a blanket by night.

Furthermore, the girl's fingers, wrists, and legs at the ankles and immediately below the knees, were encircled with ornamental rings and bracelets of sinew intended as a protection against the malign influences she was supposed to be possessed with.