Short, strong, and slightly hollowed, the loins broad and muscular, the ribs well sprung and braced up.
The Prince was a lawless shameless youth; From his father's loins he sprang without ruth: Eighteen years till then had he seen, And the devil's dues in him were eighteen.
King Schoeneus' daughter is she verily, 150 Who when her eyes first looked upon the sun Was fain to end her life but new begun, For he had vowed to leave but men alone Sprung from his loins when he from earth was gone.
She had sprung from the ground under him and had hugged him tight by burying the immense claws of her fore-paws in his hump, while her hind claws tore his loins and entrails.
Let the rod of thy desire be in thy right hand: put the sandals of Hermes on thy feet; and gird thy loins with strength.
Evoi, Iacchos, Lord of the Sphinx; who linkest the lowest to the highest; the loins of the wild beast to the head and breast of the woman.
Both armies paused now to gird their loins for the crucial test.
The army camped at Centreville, seven miles from Beauregard's lines, and spent the 19th and 20th of July resting and girding their loins for the first baptism of fire.
No body of men of any race ever marched to death with calmer faith than those ragged lines of grey now girding their loins for the fiercest, bloodiest struggle in the annals of the world.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
North America sprang from the loins of Britain; South, from the loins of Spain.
This American nation, he said, sprang from the loins of Britain, and its founders had inherited their fibre from that "classic land of liberty.
But he wanted also a son of his loins to succeed him at Epworth, to hold and improve what painful inches he had gained; and again he could only think of John.
Though with arms, legs and loins strained almost to cracking, the men worked cheerfully.
When they took hold of thee by the hand then thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break and madest their loins to totter.
This action of the body produces no perceptible consequences for the first few days, but afterwards it begins to torture the loins with a species of lumbago.
They were told[5] to eat the lamb of the passover "with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand.
The loins of some are higher than their shoulders, so that one slips forwards, and the back-bones of all are ridgy.
It is such a hindrance, even in walking, that most pedestrians have "their loins girded up" by taking the middle of the hem at the bottom of the kimono and tucking it under the girdle.
That belt a tenfold power doth give, When round his loins he girds it tight; Nor doth the foe remain alive, On whom his hammer haps to light.
The loins of Egbert, or of Pharamond; Now sunk in Adam's entrails it is found, And thence shoots through the world to you all crowned.
Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
A saddle of muton or double loin is two loinscut off before the carcass is split open down the back.
Faith, where the loin-eating man—Oi mane the man-eating loins reside, bedad.
It is composed of the two loins and two necks of a sheep trimmed into the form of a double saddle, without interfering in the least with the legs and shoulders, which would cause a serious loss to the butcher.
I caught hold of the end of his plaid, and followed him non passibus æquis like the parvus Iulus, for he hastened onward with his loins girded up.
We haven't got to gird our loins with a new frenzy and our larynxes with a new Glory Song.
Her deepest consciousness is in theloins and belly.
The great flow of female consciousness is downwards, down to the weight of the loins and round the circuit of the feet.
FN#93] So arise straightway and go down the stairs, strengthening thy purpose and girding the loins of resolution: moreover fear not for thou art now a man and no longer a child.
Thereupon the lad mustered up strength and girt the loins of resolution and did as the Maroccan had bidden him, and hove up the slab with all ease when he pronounced his name and the names of his parents, even as the Magician had bidden him.
Samudras·ra is shipwrecked and contrives to reach the land, where he perceives the corpse of a man, round the loins of which is a cloth with a knot in it.
Gird up thy loinslike a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loinswith a cord.
Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.
His loins were covered with a fine red silk scarf, held by a silver belt; his blue knit stockings were tied with red garters below each knee, and quantities of coral, turquois, and white shell beads ornamented the neck.
Hostjobokon’s body and limbs were painted, and he wore a mountain lion’s skin doubled lengthwise and fastened around the loins at the back, and a silver belt encircled his waist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bud; egg; germ; nucleus; rudiment; seed; spermatozoon
