What is "ropy"

Usage examples of "ropy".

Courts of Justice toward the park where I had last left the car provided for me by the city council, deep in cogitation, when a familiar figure caught my eye on the steep, curved steps leading up to the entrance: fat, sweating in his white suit, sucking alternately at a ropy cigar and the straw stuck in a soft drink bottle.

Heechee, with his double heart, almost fatless internal organs, and ropy musculature.

A ropy mass of neurons, interlaced with augmentations of my jugular vein and my two carotid arteries, extended from beneath my orphaned medulla and stretched across four feet of empty space before disappearing into my reopened fontanel, the whole arrangement shielded from microbial contamination by a flexible plastic tube.

A ropy mass extended from the back of her head, flaring like a scolex at the base of her scalp.

Seeing it brings back the way he pulled the bandanna off his head to scratch his scalp, revealing the brassy color of his ropy hair.

They had four tiny arms, looking deformed and shrunken, and two opposing pairs of ropy, coiling tentacles with prehensile tips.

He looked down and found silver fire raging and sputtering around him, spilling restlessly out of his stomach along with something pale, bloody, and ropy that must be his own innards.

For all that, and the total lack of any official Purple Hearts, his face was pockmarked with black pits, indicative of unextracted shrapnel, and his body was covered in the ropy scars made by metal when it violates the human body.

Once more the length of stringy muscle and ropy flesh flashed up until they saw the suckers disklike on its length.

At the moment, most of the work, supervised by a cheery seventy-year-old Dutch dopehead with gray hair in ropy dreadlocks that swing at his waist, is devoted to improving tobacco and marijuana.

He had managed to splint his leg, after a fashion: five laths of cherry oak wood that stretched from his ankle to his pelvis, lashed into place by ropy vines.

Vaginal and uterine leucorrhea are essentially different in character, the former being an acid, and the latter an alkaline secretion, and, while the first is a creamy, purulent fluid, the latter is thick and ropy, like the white of an egg.

He pulled himself across on ropy mycelia trunk lines and shoved his way into a pulsing gate orifice.

In some cases the discharge is thick, ropy, and tough, requiring frequent and strong efforts in the way of blowing and spitting, to remove it from the throat, in which it frequently lodges.

They had narrow ropy limbs that looked as though they had no muscular strength at all, though they could muster startling tensile force when needed: Joseph had seen Indigenes lift bundles of faggots that would break the back of a sturdy Folker.