What is "whipcord"

Usage examples of "whipcord".

That face was his, and each line of the slim, whipcord body, even the pantherish grace of his movements, were those of the young Alexandros of Pahpahs.

The woman with the whipcord body, much of which was on unapologetic display, eyed him approvingly.

A houseboy or something in a turtleneck and whipcord trousers answered the door of a gray stone house on the edge of the nearby town and showed me into a room paneled in fruitwood with potted plants on the built-in shelves.

The whipcord finally was looped around her neck on a running slipknot, so that if she tried to move to get away she would garote herself.

The two that faced him had adorned their portly bodies with gray tunics, tight whipcord riding breeches, Sam Browne belts, jackboots, and goggled metal helmets.

He will offer the new cloths, the tweeds from the north and the good broadcloths from London, the fancy waistcoats to wear to chapel and smartly cut, dropleaf-front breeches of whipcord for farmers who are rising in the world and want the world to take notice.

He had the physical build of the type of spider called a granddaddy longlegs, and he was all bone and whipcord sinew.

Black as a gun barrel, whipcord lean, with a ramrod posture and a shaven head, Barlet was a wizard at long-range gunnery.

The veins stood out on his neck, the great muscles in his shoulders were ridged like whipcords as he strained to throw the last of the imprisoning branches from his chest.

The thin body had muscles like whipcords, so that the arms and legs looked almost like illustrations of muscular structure from some book of anatomy.

There were a gold cross and a bunch of silver medals hung by a whipcord about the neck of the dead man.

Always before, Nacoya's frail appearance had hidden a whipcord resilience, a fibre of staunchness that made her seem indestructible.