What is "sinews"

Usage examples of "sinews".

But the power remained, a constant reminder in his joints and sinews of what he had become.

Suddenly Calum tensed, the sinews of his body standing out in stark relief against his glistening skin.

His sinews instinctively used the momentum of the impact against his assailant.

Providence, their limbs and sinews in tasks of well-directed and continual labor.

It learns one to use his strength, his limbs and sinews, as he may be compelled to use them, in self-defence, in every future day of his life.

Now he was ten, now twelve, now fourteen--a sturdy young mountaineer, with the sinews of an athlete, and a store of learning, not from books, for he had never known a school, but from the simple teaching of his parents and the unlimited knowledge of woodcraft, of the habits of wild things, of mountain peaks, of plants, of animals, insects and birds, and of the incessant hunt for food that must always be when one lives beyond the pale of civilized markets.

She could envision the sinews passing through the board and tying, to brace the ribs against the flat board.

But how could she get the sinews through the board without dangerously disrupting the wound?

In his left hand he held a short spear, the blade of which seemed to be fashioned of chipped flint, or some other hard and shining stone, and in the girdle of his kilt was thrust a wooden-handled instrument or ax, made by setting a great, sharp-edged stone that must have weighed two pounds or so into the cleft end of the handle which was lashed with sinews both above and below the axhead.

Now, with wonderful skill, helped by the others, he set to work, and with sinews and strips of damp hide cut from the skins of reindeer, he lashed haft and blade together, knotting the ends of the strips again and again.

Or when the weather was bad, by signs she caused Pag to give her dressed skins and sinews, also splinters of ivory from the tusks of the walrus.

These splinters she fashioned into needles, boring an eye in the head of them with a sharp and heated flint, and threading the sinews through them, began to sew in a fashion such as Pag had never seen.