He was doing his best to nourish the sinews of war, for business in the country was discouragingly slack.
His boots were growing heavy to lift, and his overalls seemed to wrap his sinews in wet, strangling thongs.
A longing for her made his very sinews ache; she was no longer madonna, and her beauty thrilled him, with the passionate, almost sensuous desire to give his life for her.
His sinews cracked in his frantic efforts to control himself; he dug his finger-nails into his flesh, trying by physical pain to drown the sufferings of his mind.
Very well, he would christen this amazing beast of sinews with the compass nose, Leath Macha, and make him a gift of his head as the darky advised.
And Cull, coming up, marveled at her slumber, heard the murmuring of the wind through the sinews and made the first harp.
There upon the sand lay the skeleton of a whale and the wind playing upon the taut sinews made sounds low and soothing enough to lull her to sleep.
Well, Aarons, if you will furnish the sinews of war, I will undertake to carry the citadel by storm.
The seneschal wrote the messages, and sent the summons to the sleek men of the cities, and let it be known that the coffers were full and not too tightly sealed, that the faithful should not lack for the sinews of war.
Operations were at a standstill, and thesinews of war relaxed.
Humiliation of the Greeks in General Course Pursued with Pergamus But the Romans did not confine themselves to cutting the nerves and sinews of Macedonia.
Like a feather in a whirlwind the little boat was tossed on the tumultuous sea, but, borne on the blast that swept the cruel surge, the shrieks of those shipwrecked sailors seemed to change her weak sinews into cords of steel.
The difficulties which dishearten one man only stiffen the sinews of another, who looks on them as a sort of mental spring-board by which to vault across the gulf of failure to the sure, solid ground of full success.
It was he also that invented the fishing-lines out of the sinews of the legs of the birds, and your mother who knotted them together.
The Bow was a favourite weapon and of the usual Oriental pattern, being composed of horn, wood, and the largesinews of certain animals firmly glued together.
Others have been found with the cutting edge carefully ground and polished, but with the tang only chipped and the edges serrated to afford a firm grip for the sinews used to affix it to the shaft.
Only one description of a bow is given to us--that of Pandarus, which is said to be of ibex horn, strung with sinews (Fig.
There can be no doubt but that thesinews of animals played an important part in the construction of the skein.
On returning to our boats the trudging through the great bog was so fatiguing that we frequently lay down to rest; our sinews became cramped, and for my part, more than once I thought I should give up from weariness.
The whole operation lasted hardly five minutes; the only inconvenience felt was the weight of the material pulling downward over my sinews and flesh.
What music will be in him when Hector has knock'd out his brains I know not; but, I am sure, none; unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
Let grow thy sinewstill their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.
Upon this island we did perceive that there had been people, for we found a small shoe and pieces of leather sewed with sinews and a piece of fur, and wool like to beaver.
They apparel themselves in the skins of such beasts as they kill, sewed together with the sinews of them.
Thou wouldst say that he is fishing with all the might of his limbs, so big the sinews swell all about his neck, grey-haired though he be, but his strength is as the strength of youth.
The nooses were of the same kind as those used for snaring antelope, made from the dried sinews of the antelope.
One that I shot, when skinned, was a most perfect specimen of thews and sinews I ever beheld.
I scrambled up the pinnacles, and up on the carven stem of the cross, for my sinews were as steel, and my muscles had dried and hardened until they were as those of the tiger or the great serpent.
Untie feet, break bone and loosen sinews just below joint; pull out sinews and cut off feet.
A youth of a goodly presence," muttered the earl, "with the dignity that commands in peace, and the sinews that can strive against hardship and death in war.
The current was strong, and the boat crawled slowly against the twirling sinews of water.
But it was work that kept both their brains and sinews employed, and so was of a deal more worth than the bare value of the pelts and dinners it supplied.
The native, next to disliking regular sustained labour himself, abhors seeing the foreigner toiling even in his service, and wasting his gold and sinews in the thankless task.
Money is undoubtedly the sinews of war, but the power to raise money to carry on war, under the constitution, is not an implied power, and whoever adopts that theory commits a great constitutional error.
The daughter's supple fingers soon braided evenly and closely the sinews of the narwhal into the tense and needful bow-strings, for Shung-hu hunted reindeer with bow and arrows.
Your endive and watercresses are but the complement of the elephant-sinews and camel's hump of days bygone; the maple-leaf and the rush, of your once rich robes and fine attire.
His flesh was hollowed out beneath the scourge; the sinews of his legs were severed.
