Brace thy thews, lad, and bring not shame upon Sherwood.

When, surprised, he views Sohráb, endued with ample breast and thews, Like Sám Suwár, he beckons him apart; The youth advances with a gallant heart, Willing to prove his adversary's might, By single combat to decide the fight; And eagerly, "Together brought," he cries, "Remote from us be foemen, and allies,

The younger one, Tregarva, was a stately, thoughtful-looking Cornishman, some six feet three in height, with thews and sinews in proportion.

Oh, for such a heart, with the thews and sinews of a truly English brain!' Next day he met Luke in that room.

But though Sir Launcelot knew him not, yet he beheld that the body of Sir Tristram was very beautiful and strong, for he saw how all the muscles and thews thereof were cut very smooth and clean as you might cut them out of wax, wherefore Sir Launcelot gazed for a long while and felt great admiration for his appearance.

At least, send him not till his thews are laced and his bones set.

Are your thews and sinews strong enough?

These human figures are exactly alike, and represent the same personagea Colossus with swelling thews, and dressed in a robe of dignity.

Lesbia felt in her heart that such a man must be destined for success, born to be a conqueror in all strifes, a victor upon every field. 'Have I the thews and sinews of a man doomed to be beaten in the battle?'

The knotted coil of thews and sinews looks like the magnificent exaggerations of antique sculpture.

No doubt the fellow had a big body, strong bones, and good thews; but that he had the real pluck that nerved the little bodies of such men as Nelson, or Suwarrow, ay, or of Napoleon, I deny."

Her thews were strong, and she loved it all the more for the tests that it put to its children.

XXII Beatrice Neilson was a mountain girl, with the strong thews of Jael, yet she hid her face as the canoe shot into the crest of the rapids.

It was not one of these base passionsknown in the full category to her rescuers who were even now bearing down upon her valleythat kept the steel in her thews and the steadfastness in her heart.

Still Ben lingered in his mysterious stupor, unaware of what went on about him; but his fever was almost gone by now, and the first beginnings of strength returned to his thews.

Their strong thews would waste in a gentler land.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature?...

His huge thews tightened, his muscles swelled as if for battle, yet miracle of miracles, he was melting like a child in tears!

With iron clasp I gripped him from the rear (His talons else had torn me) and, my foot Set on him, forced to earth by dint of heel His hinder parts, my flanks entrenched the while Behind his fore-arm; till his thews were stretched And strained, and on his haunches stark he stood And lifeless; hell received his monstrous ghost.

Olive and copper and ebony, their skins glistened as if oiled, and rippled with the ceaseless play of the thews beneath.

The biggest lad used his thews and sinews to knock over the lesser without mercy, till the lesser by degrees grew strong enough to retaliate.

The complaint of the poor character of the work performed by the agricultural labourer seems also true of other departments, where labourpure and simple labour of thews and sinewsis concerned.

The founder and head of each little community needed not only a shrewd brain and commanding temper, but also the thews and training to make him excel as woodsman and hunter, and the heart and eye to enable him to stand foremost in every Indian battle.

There too, the master is he who presents the natural shape, the curves, the thews of men, and does not labour and seek praise for faithful reproduction of the mere moral drapery of the hour, this or another; who gives you Hercules at strife with Antaeus, Laocoon writhing in the coils of the divine serpents, the wrestle with circumstance or passion, with outward destiny or inner character, in the free outlines of nature and reality.

For what are thy learning an' thy mighty thews if they do not bear thee up in time o' trouble?