Which preposition to use with physiques
He was greatly pleased with the magnificent physique of Arnold's men, the fittest of an originally well-picked lot.
DÉFAUT, m., faible; absence; imperfection physique ou morale.
Most of the officers were fine, sturdy, young fellows of stouter physique than the French among whom I had been roving.
The critics who love me, and they most of them love me because I am so exceptionally polite to them, and tell them exactly what to say about every new play, allude to my physique as Grecian.
Nothing is told us by his biographers of the person of Boiardo: and it is not safe to determine a man's physique from his writings, unless perhaps with respect to the greater or less amount of his animal spirits; for the able-bodied may write effeminately, and the feeblest supply the defect of corporal stamina with spiritual.
Physical training is not a mechanical, but a vital process: no bricks without straw; no good physique without good materials and conditions.