muscle in

• “He talked like a racehorse approaching the winning-post, every muscle in action, and the utmost energy of expression flowing out in every burst.”

  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

• “His grip on her hips tightened; every muscle in his body locked as he held back the urge to ravish her.”

  A Lady of His Own

• “But the regular number two hitter, second baseman Willie Randolph, had pulled a hamstring muscle in the last week of the season, and his replacement, rookie Brian Doyle, was a poor hitter.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Greatest Game

• “Every muscle in her body ached and her mind spun as she had to fight to keep from blacking out.”

  Shiver

• “Dr. Duchenne first showed (` Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine, 'Album, 1862, p. 39) the importance of the contraction of this muscle in the shape assumed by the features in crying.”

  The expression of the emotions in man and animals

• “Oh no, this is a whole-body experience where every muscle in your entire being convulses and you shake until you get achy.”

  Simon & Schuster: You’ll Lose the Baby Weight

• “Not once did a muscle in his face move, or a change come into those detachedly beautiful eyes.”

  The Thorn Birds

• “There was no proper organization for a twenty-four hour listening watch at the Cairns Ambulance; in an emergency such as this everybody had to muscle in and lend a hand.”

  A Town Like Alice

• “Reluctance seemed to claim him as a muscle in his jaw flexed convulsively.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Best Way to Lose

• “He's a thin-skin'd cuss, and won't bear as much whipping as some; but he's got the muscle in him, and no mistake.”

  Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853--,

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