These people commonly use the back sinew as thread or as wrapping on tools, drums, and the like.
I saw a piece of back sinew being dried for future use at the Windy River post.
Antler and sinew went into the making (by Anoteelik) of a "ring and pin" game.
He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Remember that the sinew never shrinks save beneath the touch of the angel hand--the touch of tender love.
We snared wild mice by placing slip-nooses of horsehair or fine sinew across their well-beaten thoroughfares.
He then tightly winds each end and the middle with flat sinew and notches the ends for the bowstring, which is best made of sinew, though wild hemp and other materials are used on occasion.
The squaw watched him furtively while she drew the deer sinew through the pieces of skin from which she was fashioning a moccasin.
The arrow heads were firmly fixed to the shaft by glue and by sinew wrapping.
Its string was of twisted sinew and it was backed with sinew.
Not daring to use it again from so unsteady a raft, he set it aside as he stripped a sinew from his loin-cloth to hang the fish around his neck.
The fierce-toothed leg of a fighting beetle rested in a strip of sinew about his waist, ready for use.
Setting down the stone oil lamp, she reached up to one upper end of it and tugged steadily while sawing at the thin strong threads of sinew with a knife, until she popped the corner loose.
Presently he stripped a sinew from the garment about his middle and hung the fish about his neck with it.
Burl had forgotten the large and oily fish that still hung down his back from the sinew about his neck, but now he rose, and its flapping against him reminded him again.
A mass of soft and beautiful moth fur was about his middle, and in the strip of sinew about his waist the fiercely toothed limb of a fighting beetle was thrust carelessly.
In the great mobs and riots of history, what class is it which forms the brawn and muscle and sinew of the disturbance?
He was six feet three inches high, and in every respect, a man of bone, sinew and muscle.
I feel in everysinew A young man's strength returning!
Ruth liked this brown, lithe cowpuncher, all sinew and bone and muscle.
Their chief weapons are bows and arrows, the former of which is made of cedar, or occasionally, as it is said, of horn and bone; its elasticity is increased by a covering of sinew glued on.
Six small perforated ivory balls attached separately to cords of sinew three feet long.
The feather upon the arrow is placed or bound down with fine sinew in threes, instead of twos.
It consists of a heavy stone, sometimes wrapped in leather, attached by a sinew thong about two inches in length, to the end of a stout leather-covered handle, measuring nearly two feet.
Bows are made of cedar, with sinew glued along one side.
The warp is of a different material--sinew of the whale, or dried kelp-thread.
It is a sheath for your scissors, my dear, it is made of doe skin, embroidered with white beads, and coloured quills split fine, and sewn with deer sinew thread Look at these curious bracelets.
The boy sprang up, every muscle and sinew and nerve on the alert.
The salmon is struck by this weapon in the manner of the ordinary fish-spear; the head slips off the shaft as soon as the barbs lodge, and the harpoon virtually becomes a fishing-rod, with the sinew for a line.
Through a hole drilled in the spear-head a stout cord of deer-sinew is fastened by one end, its other being secured to the shaft near its insertion.
O thou five foot five Of flesh and blood and sinew and the rest!
Quickly the young woman slips the beads on the silvery sinew thread, and works them into the pretty flower design.
It took many trials before I learned how to knot my sinew thread on the point of my finger, as I saw her do.
Come, vengeance, come, shake off the feeble sex, Sinew my arm, and guide it to his heart.
