What is "thew"

Usage examples of "thew".

Bunion and Parsnip were more than a match for the gnomes, Darkling or no, and Questor Thews ought to be able to use his own magic to counteract that of the demon if it should become necessary to do so.

Jocelyn Thew, notwithstanding his fine, slim figure, his well-cut clothes and lean, handsome face, carried always with him some nameless, unanalysable air of the man who has played the explorer, who has peered into strange places, who has handled the reins which guide the white horse of life as well as the black horse of death.

Your brother, the High Lord, and I will not have your thews to help us bear the weight of plate in the coming battle, so we will wear only helms and cuirasses, plus gorgets, shoulderpieces, brassarts and kneecops, with our swords slung on our backs.

Your brother, the High Lord, and I will not have your thews to help us bear the weight of plate in the coming battle, so we will wear only helms and cuirasses, plus gorgets, shoulder pieces, brassarts and knee-cops, with our swords slung on our backs.

His sword flashed frostily in the starlight with every ounce of desperate nerve and thew behind it, and man and beast went down together.

Johnson, Norm Avery, Rob and Virginia Bayless, Ann Nemeth, Richard Blakely, Jean Naggar, Carolyn Carlson, Mat- thew Bradley, Michaela Hamilton, and Al Silvennan.

When the three bull ourang outangs closed upon Bulan he felt no fear as to the outcome of the battle, for never in his experience had he coped with any muscles that his own mighty thews could not overcome.

I always air this geste when Roxburgh wishes to dispute my tenet that the brain is mightier than the thew.

All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.

Mat thew kicked off the sheet and lifted her on top of him, letting their bodies become reacquainted all over again.

Once clear of the gate, he arched his steel-clad neck and lifted his white-stockinged feet high in his showiest parade strut, his powerful thews rolling under his glossy black hide.

In fact, in her dreams at night this man of her future often wore the face and thews of Faldain, whose image she had once summoned by parting the veils of seeing.

Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.

A veritable giant, flaxen-haired and massive of thews, just like thousands more German men he had known-Burgundus!

Mat thew stepped inside and looked around, taking in the handmade quilt on the bed, the lace curtains at the window and the framed watercolors hanging on the walls.