whipcord

• He was white, nattily attired in whipcord-laced breeches, riding boots, a leather blazer and--incongruous touch--a beret of leather which matched his jacket. —  031 - The Majii
• His little skinny form was tough, hard--whipcord and muscle Long Tom jerked up on the table and exclaimed, "Doc The Man of Bronze nodded toward the door through which he'd been brought into the room, said, "Gunmen are on the way The hum of the strangely rising platform was quite loud now Long Tom had stooped, to remove something strapped inside his trousers leg. —  074 - The World's Fair Goblin
• His smallest muscle stands out hard and firm like whipcord, says an English painter. —  Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
• As whilome a top flying under the twisted whipcord, which boys busy at their play drive circling wide round an empty hall, runs before the lash and spins in wide gyrations; the witless ungrown band hang wondering over it and admire the whirling boxwood; the strokes lend it life: with pace no slacker is she borne midway through towns and valiant nations. —  The Aeneid of Virgil
• Round his head the two strangers had strung a piece of knotted whipcord which one of them was drawing tighter and tighter with the aid of a penknife twisted in the bandage. —  The Slave of Silence

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