thews

• A quick glance among the shadows convinced him that the man was alone, and he expanded his great chest slightly, digging his toes into the turf, as his thews coiled tensely. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
• But Conan's thews were iron too, and his mail saved him from the gnashing fangs and ripping claws long enough for him to drive home his dagger, again and again and again. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
• The Chronicles of Conan - bar the thews, perhaps - could have been written yesterday. —  Larvatus Prodeo
• Men of mighty bone and thews, sons of Anak, to our own certain knowledge, arise in Kendal, Wakefield, Bradford and Leeds; huge men, by thousands, amongst the spinners and weavers of Glasgow, Paisley, etc., well able to fight their way through battalions of clod-hoppers whose talk is of oxen. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• And almost immediately his pull upon the reins began to tell, for his thews and sinews, hardened and tempered to the strength of steel by his long tramp from the banks of the Amazon, were very different from those of the effeminate youth who had been thrown out; and after traversing a couple of hundred yards, the animals acknowledged themselves beaten and came to a standstill without having done further damage. —  In Search of El Dorado

Definitions (0)