whipcords

Dr. Snyder noted that the president was so irritated at these intrusions that “the veins stood out on his forehead like whipcords.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Dr. Snyder noted that the president was so irritated at these intrusions that “the veins stood out on his forehead like whipcords.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

My flesh is as stringy as whipcords, and as bitter and mean as the bite of a rattlesnake.

THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

Instead the veins stood out like whipcords in his throat and he experienced a rush of lust the like of which had not visited him since adolescence.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

They burned her, and their burns chopped her brain painfully, lashed her heart like fiery whipcords.

Mother 2003

African race. 11 The arms are thin, with muscles like whipcords, and the hands and feet are, in point of size and delicacy, a link between Europe and India.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

CHAPTER FIFTEEN HE STOOD BEFORE HER, his slender elegant figure dressed impeccably in tan whipcords, a khaki shirt and a shading Panama.

Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982

His hands, which he was compelled by the manacles to hold directly in front of him in an absurd travesty of penitential clasp, gripped each other in his consuming resentment until the tendons of his wrist stood out with the tense distinction of whipcords.

The Flaw in the Sapphire Charles M. Snyder

So loud, so long and so mighty was the blast that the veins stood out like whipcords on his brow; and even then he stopped not, but blew until his temples broke and the blood streamed down his face.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Andrews continued so obstinate, that three whipcords were broken before she would plead.

Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various